Blair’s ‘Sorry’ Is Not Good Enough

The latest attempt to move on from the Iraq war was set out by Prime Minister Blair last weekend. He was quoted by the BBC as saying: "We do say sorry for all those people who have died, but I cannot apologize for taking the country to war." In other words, he's sorry...

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Proof the Fix Was In

"Intelligence and facts are being fixed around the policy." Never in our wildest dreams did we think we would see those words in black and white – and beneath a SECRET stamp, no less. For three years now, we in Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)...

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The Nuclear Renaissance

On Aug. 6, 1945, the day that was to prove the blindingly bright dawn of the atomic age, Little Boy, a 9,700-pound baby with the look of "an elongated trash can with fins," had already been loaded into the specially prepared bomb bay of a B-29. The night before, in...

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The War Party’s
War on the Media

The U.S. government doesn't like what the media is reporting in Iraq, but don't worry, they have a solution: shoot them, then arrest them. At the beginning of last month, a cameraman with CBS press credentials was shot and arrested on suspicion of "insurgent...

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Beat the Peaceful, Embrace the Violent

The day before yesterday, two demonstrations were held, just a few dozen kilometers apart. One took place at the Homesh settlement, not far from Jenin. Tens of thousands of settlers and their sympathizers came to demonstrate against the planned evacuation of this...

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Bye-Bye, Bush Doctrine

"The United States of America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most dangerous weapons." This excerpt from his "Axis-of-Evil" State of the Union of 2002 is the heart of the Bush Doctrine. Under it, we invaded Iraq. To...

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Fool’s Paradise

About a year ago, I had lunch with someone who then held a relatively high position in America's homeland security forces. During our conversation, I casually referred to "somebody setting off a suitcase nuke in an American city." He replied, "That will happen." I...

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Backtalk, May 3, 2005

9-11 Conspiracy Fact & FictionThe appearance on the very same day of Justin Raimondo's "Waco as Metaphor" and someone else's "911 Conspiracy: Fact & Fiction" has me puzzled. The two messages seem to clash.By linking the official lies about Waco and Iraq, Raimondo...

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Out of the Superpower Orbit

Of the two superpowers that faced each other down in an almost half-century-long Cold War, one – the United States – emerged victorious, alone in the world, economically powerful, militarily dominant; the other, never the stronger of the two, limped off, its...

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