On Wednesday, August 29, 1945, President Truman gave out the reports of the Army and Navy Boards directed by Congress to investigate the responsibility for the great disaster of December 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor. These Boards had filed their reports nine months ago....
NEW DELHI - The fact that Russian President Vladimir Putin equally divided his three-day visit to India, that ended Sunday, between political and business leaders speaks much for the changing nature of what was once regarded as a definitively strategic alliance of the...
NEW YORK - Somewhere between Halliburton and CARE, there is a cadre of contractors trying to help Iraq establish a working, private-sector economy. But the cost of securing their safety is frustrating many, as some firms report spending 25-30 percent of their contract...
Scott Horton talks with Dr. Gordon Prather about the drive for war with Iran and who's behind it. Interview conducted Dec. 4, 2004. Check out Scott's other interviews with prominent antiwar and libertarian personalities. Download MP3 Listen to Streaming Audio...
We are driving across Baghdad when a GMC full of armed men races past our car, missing it by inches. Along with guns pointed out their windows at us (and all the other cars), a couple of the men hold their hands out, waving them down toward the ground in order to...
Scott Horton and Matthew Barganier discuss libervention, the upcoming Iraqi elections, and meddling in the Ukraine. Interview conducted Dec. 3, 2004. Check out Scott's other interviews with prominent antiwar and libertarian personalities. Download MP3 Listen to...
BANGKOK - By shooting down a plan to give the country's police wide powers to go after suspected Muslim insurgents in the south, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has generated an image that he might care about human rights after all. That impression was...
The human imagination is quicker off the mark than any six-gun, bomb, or JDAM missile. Long before humans made it into airplanes, whole cities were being destroyed from the air – in an avalanche of popular fiction. By the late 19th century London had gone down...
The U.S. effort to export "democracy" to Ukraine has some skeptics of interventionism baffled and confused. A seeming throwback to the Soviet era, Leonid Kuchma, and his chosen heir, ward-heeler Viktor Yanukovich, were widely perceived as having stolen the...
On Dec. 18, 2003, Iran signed an Additional Protocol to their Safeguards Agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency. Although not required to do so until the Iranian Parliament "ratifies" it, Iran volunteered to act "in accordance with the...
