Draft Needed to Bail Out Neocons

One of the favorite fantasies of right-wing talk radio and Fox "News" is that only Bush-hating liberals oppose the Iraq war and additional U.S. military incursions into the Middle East or wherever. Yet, it is the March issue of the Washington Monthly, a...

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Kyoto Goes Nuclear

Following Russia's formal ratification of the Kyoto Protocol last November, it went into force on Feb. 16, 2005. The Protocol obligates "industrialized" signatories to reduce by 2012 their emissions of six "greenhouse gases" – primarily carbon...

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Backtalk, March 28, 2005

An Evil Little WarMr. Malic, though entirely correct in his appraisal of the outrage, alas, offers no reason for it. What may we ask was this war waged for? Was it strategic, for minerals, or because Milosevic couldn't be bribed to sell out his country and join the EU...

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Howard Dean Still Selling Out the Antiwar Movement

It was just over two years ago that I learned a little-known "antiwar" Democrat from Vermont was planning to run for president. At a rally on the eve of Bush's Iraq invasion, a fellow protester handed me a leaflet touting the now infamous Howard Dean, hoping that the...

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How the East Was Won

On the first day of Kyrgyzstan's "daffodil revolution," photogenic girls smilingly offered daffodils to police guarding the presidential palace, but in a few hours those same guards were being pushed back and beaten by drunken crowds, who surged into the seat of...

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Afghanistan: Media Black Hole

We at the Afghan Women’s Mission (AWM) often ask ourselves, why aren’t the major newspapers showing the American people what's really happening in Afghanistan? AWM co-directors James Ingalls and I recently returned from a trip to Revolutionary Association...

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