Demands by a key Republican senator for a two-week delay in the vote by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on John Bolton as Washington's next UN ambassador mark a significant and potentially strategic defeat for Vice President Dick Cheney and the administration...
In a case of incredibly bad timing, neoconservative columnist and author Joel Mowbray recently came out with a piece claiming that "stories on Larry Franklin, dual loyalties, and espionage for Israel look more far-fetched with each passing day." According to Mowbray,...
The Halliburton corporation, already the Iraq war's poster child for "waste, fraud, and abuse," has been hit with a new double whammy. A report from the U.S. State Department accuses the company of "poor performance" in its $1.2 billion contract to...
Empire Stirs to Action in Kosovo Violence pays. How else should one interpret that the ultimate result of the horrific pogrom in Kosovo last March would be an aggressive campaign by power-mongers in the Empire to reward Albanian separatism and finish the job begun six...
We are now in an America where it's a commonplace for our president, wearing a "jacket with ARMY printed over his heart and 'Commander in Chief' printed on his right front," to address vast assemblages of American troops on the virtues of bringing democracy to foreign...
Jordan's new Prime Minister Adnan Badran is coming under attack from pro-democracy advocates for his role in the killing of three university students in 1986. Badran wasn't elected prime minister of Jordan – he was simply picked for the post by Jordanian ruler...
NEW YORK - Three influential civil rights groups charged Wednesday that border control tactics used by the Department of Homeland Security discriminate against U.S. citizens solely on the basis of their religion and ethnicity, in violation of the U.S. Constitution. In...
WASHINGTON - The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of the National Capital Area filed an emergency motion Wednesday to open the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to the public during oral arguments tomorrow in a hearing over the termination of FBI whistleblower...
"All great truths begin as blasphemies," said George Bernard Shaw. But not all blasphemies are the beginnings of great truths, a distinction worth remembering when it comes to Ward Churchill. The chairman of the ethnic studies program at the University of Colorado...
On April 19, 1993, agents of the U.S. government assaulted the Branch Davidian "compound" at Waco, Texas – a religious community of Adventists under the leadership of David Koresh – killing 74 men, women, and children, including 12 children younger than five...
