Reality TV votes with its feet on Bush foreign policy: "[Bernard van Munster, the Dutch-born co-creator and executive producer of the reality TV show, The Amazing Race] continues to scout locations for the seventh season, more than ever convinced that the world is a...
It is not uncommon for countries that have been infected by democracy to fall prey to a malaise in which every sphere of life becomes political, i.e., falls under the control or influence of the state. The amount of power this gives the state becomes so strong a lure...
Pledge WeekThis morning I contributed $20 to Antiwar.com. On the surface it would appear that it is insignificant. The sum of my income is dependent on a disability benefit. I was hesitant to even contribute such a paltry amount for concern that it may appear as an...
"In a better world, the PLO chief would have met his end on a gallows, hanged for mass murder much as the Nazi chiefs were hanged at Nuremberg. ... In a better world, George Bush would not have said, on hearing the first reports that Arafat had died, 'God bless...
BAGHDAD - At least 800 civilians have been killed during the U.S. military siege of Fallujah, a Red Cross official estimates. Speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of U.S. military reprisal, a high-ranking official with the Red Cross in Baghdad told IPS that...
If [America] becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable. - William Graham Sumner (1903) Americans have come to notice, through all the smoke from burning American flags,...
U.S. President George W. Bush's nomination of National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to replace Secretary of State Colin Powell consolidates the control over U.S. foreign policy of the coalition of hawks that promoted the war in Iraq, led by Vice President Dick...
The neoconservatives won't have Colin Powell to kick around anymore, who's leaving along with his sidekick Richard Armitage: with them go the last vestiges of sanity in this war-maddened administration. The general purge of Republican "realists" from the...
After their jerry-built justifications – 1. WMD. 2. Saddam and Osama sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G – fell apart, the neoconservatives had a problem. Why, exactly, did we invade Iraq? It seems we invaded not so much for us as for them. The Iraqi people,...
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