There are no conspiracies to dissect, no hidden agendas to sort through and no oblique language to skillfully decode: the Bush administration's position on illegal Jewish colonies in the occupied Palestinian territories is crystal clear. President George W. Bush did...
Israel Guns for Iran
When Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon visited President George Bush at the White House on 11-12 April, the news coming out of the meetings should have been dominated by the president's displeasure with Sharon permitting the expansion of settlements in the West...
Deliberately Destroying America’s Soul
At the U.S. Army War College's 16th Annual Strategy Conference last week, a senior Department of Defense strategist defined U.S. "Grand Strategy" as the export of freedom and democracy. He added that the U.S. military would play a huge role in implementing the...
Delay on Bolton Vote a Defeat for Hawks
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...
Shaking Up Israel’s Spy Nest
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,...
Double Trouble for Halliburton
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...
The Coming Storm
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...
The New American Militarism
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 Quashes Unions, Critics of US
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...
Religious Profiling Sparks Federal Lawsuit
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...


