NEWARK, Delaware - Over 650 foreign affairs specialists in the United States and allied countries have signed an open letter opposing the Bush administration's foreign policy and calling urgently for a change of course. The letter was released today by Security...
Republicrats Still Linking Iraq to 9/11
On the eve of the third anniversary of 9/11, the U.S. House of Representatives by an overwhelming, bipartisan majority of 406-16 passed a resolution linking Iraq to the al-Qaeda attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. This comes despite...
New Flexibility on the Evil Axis?
Word that the administration is holding talks this week with its European allies on their proposal for a deal with Iran on safeguarding its nuclear program is raising new questions about whether President George W. Bush is easing his confrontational approach to the...
George W. Bush and the Mandate of Heaven
While the third and last presidential debate wasn't supposed to be about foreign policy, it is the overriding issue in this election and impossible to separate from supposedly "domestic" issues, such as taxes and homeland security. Wars, after all, cost money:...
Backtalk, October 14, 2004
Larry Franklin's October SurpriseJustin: First, you cannot use the words fundamentalists and evangelicals interchangeably; they are not. Evangelicals are spirit-filled Christians who know, because of their daily walk with God, that the most important thing in all...
Iran’s Gas Pipeline May Turn South Asia’s Peace Pipe
BANGKOK - Of the many initiatives undertaken to forge lasting peace between South Asia's squabbling neighbors, none can challenge the promise of Iran's proposed natural gas pipeline to India traversing through Pakistan. New Delhi and Tehran first signed a memorandum...
Greenpeace Warns of Iraq Nuclear Contamination
The environmental group Greenpeace has echoed a call by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to permit the UN watchdog to return in force to Iraq to track nuclear-related materials looted after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion there and help protect and treat the...
Neocons Universally Despised
In a recent newspaper column, Robert Novak reiterated his earlier reporting that the Bushies are planning to get out of Iraq ASAP – that is, as soon as politically feasible, starting right after the January 2005 elections. Citing unnamed administration officials...
The Resurrection of ‘America First!’
Two years ago, when The American Conservative magazine was launched, Franklin Foer of The New Republic accorded us a gracious welcome. "Buchanan's Surefire Flop," he titled his essay. It began, "Buchanan and his rich friends could not have chosen a worse time to start...
Indymedia Seizure Hits Two Nations
MONTEVIDEO - Freedom of expression worldwide has been under threat since agents of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) last week seized two Internet servers hosting Web sites of the Independent Media Centers. In Latin America, Indymedia Brazil and Uruguay...


