One issue raised in my Feb. 19 interview [stream] [download] of the coincidentally named Scott Horton, director of the International League of Human Rights, was that certain crimes, particularly war crimes, are subject to prosecution by any nation. That is, when the...
LONDON - New anti-terror legislation proposed in Britain makes Guantanamo Bay appear liberal in some respects. Britain has had its own Guantanamo Bay in the high security Belmarsh prison, where 10 foreign nationals have been held without charge and without trial for...
Whoever said Hunter S. Thompson was dead? You wouldn't believe it for a moment if you were wading through the paranoia and zaniness festering in the mind of Michael Ledeen. But while the Mad Monk of 17th Street is chewing the carpet at the thought of washing clean the...
Update: In my nominations for the TomDispatch Political Comedy Awards of 2005, I suggested that the Bush administration, rejected by several top choices in its search for a director of national intelligence and evidently desperate, had "hit on what was clearly a...
"Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together," Edmund Burke admonished the haughty rulers of the British Empire of his time. Our American empire is suffering from a similar want of wisdom and plenitude...
The situation for Iraqi women has gotten worse in many respects since the U.S.-led invasion two years back, says a report from Amnesty International. "The current lack of security has forced many women out of public life and constitutes a major obstacle to the...
BEIJING – It was Japan and not the United States that bore China's greatest ire after Tokyo and Washington took the unprecedented step over the weekend to declare that Taiwan would be a common security concern. The inclusion of Taiwan, which China regards as a...
NEW YORK - Civil libertarians are wondering if the new U.S. attorney general, Alberto Gonzales, will continue one of the trademarks of his predecessor, John Ashcroft: razzle-dazzle news conferences announcing the arrests of terrorists, followed by trials in which no...
The choice of Ibrahim Jaafari as candidate for prime minister of the majority United Iraqi Alliance (UIA) is seen as an important advance for the more pragmatic forces in the administration of President George W. Bush against their adversaries among the...
As Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party were moving toward capturing political power in Germany, in the aftermath of the last democratic parliamentary elections there in March 1933, there was no indication that the German Communist party was mounting any concerted response...
