Memo to: Nicholas Kristof, New York Times Re: Just for the Fun of It Your column today on North Korea and the six nuclear weapons you say it has produced since George W. Bush has been president is probably wrong in assuming it really does have nukes, even though it...
Analysts: India’s Resumption of Arms to Nepal Not Due to China
NEW DELHI - India's plan to resume military assistance to Nepal, suspended after the Feb. 1 "royal coup" has nothing to do with China's offer of support to the regime of King Gyanendra, beleaguered by a nine-year Maoist insurgency, say security experts....
In Defense of Marla Ruzicka
People all across the political spectrum, encompassing all possible views on the Iraq war, stopped for a moment of rueful silence when the news broke that Marla Ruzicka was killed by a suicide bomber the other day. Well, almost everyone, that is, except for one Debbie...
Call Me Unaccountable: Woodrow Wilson and George Bush
The passage of time permits historians to be truthful in their assessments of presidents. Abe Lincoln, a Republican Party icon since 1865, was exposed in the 21st century as America's first tyrant by Thomas DiLorenzo. Woodrow Wilson, a Democratic icon since the early...
Evidence that the US May Be Losing the Global War on Terror
http://www.independent.org/tii/antiwar/e050426.html
Iraq ‘Uptick,’ Superpower Downtick?
Quote of the Month (November 1967) "In November, as their plans gelled, General Westmoreland embarked on a whirlwind tour of the U.S. to testify before Congress and drum up support for the Johnson Administration. 'With 1968,' he said, speaking before the National...
Watchdog Demands US Torture Inquiry
A leading human rights group demands that the U.S. government launch a sweeping inquiry into the torture of Iraqi and other prisoners by U.S. troops, and that it name a special prosecutor to probe high-ranking officials' possible role in alleged abuses. Human Rights...
The War for Intel Independence
President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney are framing the trials of John Bolton, their nominee for ambassador to the United Nations, as a partisan political squabble. It is much more than that. It is rather a matter of life and death for the endangered...
The Devil Made Him Do It
General Sanchez has indeed, to our great non-surprise, been found guilty of authorizing abuses of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, yet marvelously innocent of having anything to do with those unfortunate incidents. Mr. Sanchez has been freed by Mr. Bush's Pentagon of any...
Prime Minister Chalabi?
It seems like only yesterday that U.S. government officials, and their media amen corner, were hailing the "turning point" in the Iraq war. The election changed everything, the insurgency is winding down, and victory is at hand or so the conventional wisdom of...


