Americans have been betrayed. Sooner or later, Americans will realize that they have been led to defeat in a pointless war by political leaders who they inattentively trusted. They have been misinformed by a sycophantic corporate media too mindful of advertising...
Here's a strange, small tale of our times, as reported from Washington by Guy Dinmore in the sober British Financial Times. According to an anonymous counterinsurgency expert Dinmore evidently interviewed, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has a "brutally accurate"...
http://www.independent.org/tii/antiwar/e050118.html
Having watched and observed life from the standpoint of a soldier for 10 years of my life, I always felt there was no higher honor than to serve my country and defend the values that established this country. My family has a history of serving this country dating back...
Besides improving Washington's image in South and Southeast Asia, the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush is hoping to achieve something more concrete from its aid efforts in the aftermath of the Dec. 26 tsunami that killed over 175,000 people along the...
Yes to US Aid, No to USAIDRegarding Ms Mercer's comments about private as opposed to official aid: What she fails to address, and perhaps doesn't know about, is the fact that a significant proportion of USAID aid funds are actually programmed through American NGOs...
Sometimes you don't know whether to laugh or cry. Like when you heard President Bush tell ABC's Barbara Walters, "I felt like we'd find weapons of mass destruction – like many here in the United States, many around the world. The United Nations thought he had...
The show trial of U.S. Army reservist Charles Graner had something for everyone: tragedy, comedy, pathos, and propaganda. The tragic aspect was dominant, with the photos of the disgusting abuse illustrating the theme of senseless arbitrary violence, but there was also...
The morgues at the hospitals of Baghdad are filling to capacity. At Yarmouk Hospital in central Baghdad, the three freezers reek of decaying bodies, despite the temperature. The smell rushes out at us as the doors are opened. I've smelled the burning bodies on the...
This timeless article (see Part I) first appeared on June 20, 2000 I promised last week to go further into what the late Murray Rothbard (1926-1995) teaches us about foreign policy, peace, and war. Those who keep up with such things will have noticed that there exists...
