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President Bush’s neoconservatives have announced that they are relaunching the Committee on the Present Danger. The new CPD will be totally different from the original. I was a member of the Committee on the Present Danger. It was a bipartisan private organization consisting largely of former presidential appointees who distrusted naiveté about Soviet intentions. One … Continue reading “Neocons the Real Present Danger”

WASHINGTON – Capping 18 months of work, the bipartisan 9/11 Commission released its 567-page report here Thursday, and challenged President George W. Bush and Congress to make sweeping changes to the structure of the U.S. intelligence community. The report’s central recommendations called for the creation of a “National Counter-Terrorism Center” (NCTC) that would feature joint … Continue reading “9/11 Panel: Security Overhaul Needed”

KARACHI – For no clear reason, the atmosphere around the resumption of the long-delayed India-Pakistan peace dialogue is marked by effusive official optimism on either side, and an aura of hope and expectation among both peoples. The two governments, whose foreign ministers met Wednesday and set a September date for more substantial discussions, have by … Continue reading “India, Pakistan Optimistic About Peace Talks”

Anyone demanding an intelligent and factual analysis of the march to war on Iraq need only look to Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear and the Selling of American Empire (HC hereafter). Released by the Media Education Foundation and written by Jeremy Earp and Sut Jhally, this documentary immediately focuses on the right question: why did the … Continue reading “The Movie Moore Should Have Made”

Observers continue to ask, "Will Iraq descend into civil war?" The answer is that civil war is already underway in Iraq. Most people do not see it, because it is not following the Sunni/Shi’ite/Kurd fault lines on which we have been lead to focus. As is usually the case in war, we are the victims … Continue reading “Civil War In Iraq?”

The strange visit of Serbian president Boris Tadic to Washington, less than a week after his inauguration, became a backdrop Monday for a new U.S. policy toward Serbia: absolute insistence on extradition of war crimes suspects to the Hague Inquisition. Demands for extradition have featured prominently in U.S. policy toward Serbia since October 2000, and … Continue reading “Power and Justice”

In 1987, a black teenager, Tawana Brawley, claimed to have been abducted and raped by six white cops in upstate New York. In addition to sexually abusing her, she said, they had scrawled racial epithets on her body and smeared her with feces. She later identified Steven A. Pagones, a Duchess County district attorney, as … Continue reading “Israel – A Rogue State”

Amid reports that the Islamist regime in Khartoum may finally be taking some action to curb a "scorched-earth" counterinsurgency campaign that has forced more than a million people from their homes in the western province of Darfur, Amnesty International has released a new report accusing government-backed Arab militias of using rape "as a weapon of … Continue reading “Rape Added to List of Darfur Atrocities”

U.S. Senator John Kerry’s decision to select a vice-presidential running mate who shares his militaristic foreign-policy agenda has once again demonstrated the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s willingness to take the party’s activist core, which overwhelmingly supports human rights and international law, for granted. While bringing Senator John Edwards – a bright and charismatic Southern populist … Continue reading “John Edwards, the Smiling Hawk”

A bipartisan group of 41 mainly neoconservative foreign-policy hawks has launched the third Committee on the Present Danger (CPD) whose previous two incarnations mobilized public support for rolling back Soviet-led communism but whose new enemy will be “global terrorism.” The new group, announced at a Capitol Hill press conference Tuesday, said its “single mission” will … Continue reading “Neocons Revive Cold War Group”