It didn't take long for the supporters of Viktor Yushchenko, the West's Ukrainian sock puppet, to point to the KGB as the perpetrators of the poisoning of their candidate with a major dose of dioxin: "When asked by ABC News' Bill Weir if the Russian government,...
A while back in 2003, there was a lot of commentary and partisan whining on the lack of an "exit strategy" for Iraq. Bush got us into a quagmire, and we can't get out! In May of this year, William Pfaff suggested playing to Iraqi "nationalism," as...
David Sanger – a New York Times reporter – has actually visited the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna and interviewed its director general, Mohamed ElBaradei. Sanger's resulting report – entitled "When a Virtual Bomb May Be Better Than...
"Old Europe" is blocking U.S. efforts to find an exit strategy for Iraq. Further evidence emerged on Thursday that Old Europe holds the only key to the door from Iraq marked "Exit," but don't expect to see it used any time soon. After the...
For the Pentagon, Xmas is an everyday affair. And the wonderful thing – for those who make its presents – is that there's never a December 26th. Unlike the rest of us, the Pentagon, which evidently doesn't keep its sales slips, never rushes to its nearest...
NEW YORK - Many of the more draconian provisions affecting privacy, secrecy, and asylum-seekers originally included in Congress' intelligence reform bill passed this week were omitted in the law's final version. But the agreed compromise still contains language that...
While billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars have been awarded in lucrative contracts to companies such as Bechtel and Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR), there are few signs that any reconstruction has actually taken place in war-torn Iraq. The...
In the summer of 1994, I was part of a four-person Christian Peacemaker Team dedicated to filing reports on human rights conditions in Jeremie, located in the southern finger of Haiti. When I arrived, I spent one day in Port au Prince, waiting to travel by ferry to...
Every time Iraqi soldiers and policemen boogie away from combat, the standard answer that comes out of the U.S. government is that they need to be "trained up" better. That's nonsense. Training teaches technique; it does not teach the will to fight. Given...
Blowback is a term invented by the Central Intelligence Agency to describe the unintended consequences of policies kept secret from the American people. Chalmers Johnson's excellent book, Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire, helped popularize the...
