Junk food and junk laws, neither are good for you. Unfortunately for Americans, an ever increasing number of junk laws are paving our way to national disaster. What are junk laws? They are laws passed by the Congress and then ignored; to wit, unenforced immigration...
Trouble South of the Border
When a supposedly fixed election in distant Kyrgyzstan did not meet the "democratic" standards of either the U.S. government or the European Union, it was time for yet another color-coded Western-financed "revolution." When Eduard Shevardnadze ceased to be useful to...
Smoking Rockets
The report [.pdf] of the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction begins as follows: "On the brink of war, and in front of the whole world, the United States government asserted that Saddam Hussein had...
Backtalk, April 9, 2005
In Defense of John Paul II, PeacemakerThanks and kudos to Justin Raimondo for his recent Behind the Headlines column. Whether one is Catholic or not, agnostic, atheist or true believer, those who are all these things and antiwar, can appreciate the Holy Father's...
Looks Like $80 Billion More for War, Despite Objections
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congress is poised to give President George Bush $80 billion more for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Senate is expected to pass the measure Monday. In the Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday afternoon, every Democrat joined the...
Bronx Cheers for the Nuke Commission?
This is the way Dafna Linzer of the Washington Post began her analysis last week of the report of the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction; "Of all the claims U.S. intelligence made about Iraq's arsenal...
Negroponte and the CIA’s Eclipse
Since the founding of the CIA in 1947, it has been under attack, mainly from the right. Although left-center charges that the CIA has engineered coups against democratically-elected governments and trained death squads have received more public attention, a phalanx of...
The Real Iraqi Election
Last December, Mark Danner took a piercing look back at our Presidential election in Florida, "How Bush Really Won," printed up in the New York Review of Books and posted on line at Tomdispatch. In the aftermath of another election, closely linked to our own and to...
For Reluctant GIs, Canada Remains the Great White Hope
So far, only a trickle of U.S. soldiers are heading north to Canada to avoid serving in the U.S. military campaign in Iraq. It is still relatively early in the conflict, which has not reached the level of the equally controversial U.S. military involvement in Vietnam...
Beware Monster.com
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