Here were a few headlines from yesterday's papers: "Bush Urges Congress Join Him on Budget Cuts" (Reuters); "President Offers Budget Proposal With Broad Cuts" (New York Times); "Bush Spending Plan Hits Social Programs" (Boston Globe); "Bush: Budget Cuts Part of...
Bands played, children sang, millions of Iraqis turned out to vote, and the whole world hailed Iraq's election as an historic epiphany. Success in the voting process means that Iraq will emerge as a peaceful, democratic state. America has won its war. Sorry, but I...
Even some of President George W. Bush's most enthusiastic conservative Republican supporters have expressed a sense of alarm over the grandiose and expansive vision of America's mission in the world – "support[ing] the growth of democratic movements and...
Empire's Enablers, Paid and Unpaid Several weeks ago, a scandal erupted in the U.S. when it was revealed that several pundits got paid by the Bush government to support its policies. Commenting on the scandal, Lew Rockwell, president of the libertarian Ludwig von...
"Fighting should be reserved for genuine self-defense in the face of imminent attack, when no other help is available. Preemptive strikes and aggression disguised as self-defense won't pass muster under the Golden Rule." - Jesus on Parenting: 10 Essential...
Less than a week after U.S. President George W. Bush urged his Egyptian counterpart, Hosni Mubarak, to institute democratic reforms, human rights groups are worried that the long-time leader has instead launched a new crackdown against the political opposition. Since...
ARBIL, Iraq - The George W. Bush administration and the Turkish government did their best to kiss and make up this week. After days of saber-rattling from Ankara over Kurdish domination in Kirkuk, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice appeared shoulder to shoulder...
These are the stories that will continue to emerge from the rubble of Fallujah for years. No, for generations… Speaking on condition of anonymity, the doctor sits with me in a hotel room in Amman, where he is now a refugee. He'd spoken in the UK about what he saw...
BANGKOK - As Iran and the European Union go into talks in Geneva Tuesday on Tehran's nuclear program, former UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix said the possibility of the United States attacking the Middle Eastern country, at this juncture, seemed remote. But he...
AINKAWA, Northern Iraq - Zaid Suleyman, a 34-year-old taxi driver, sits in the administration office of St. Joseph's, an Assyrian Christian church in the Kurdish-controlled north of Iraq. He and his wife fled the capital, Baghdad, for the comparative peace of this...
