The Bush administration heralds Indonesia as the world's largest Muslim democracy and a crucial ally in the war on terrorism. Since 9/11 it has pushed Congress to allow it to bolster the Indonesian military with weapons and military training. For many years, the...
Groups representing Arab and Muslim-Americans are confused by what appear to be conflicting signals from the Bush administration – which claims to be making serious efforts to "build bridges" to these constituencies, but simultaneously continues to...
Scott Horton interviews journalist James Bovard, author of The Bush Betrayal, on life in the welfare-warfare state. Interview conducted on Oct. 16, 2004. Download MP3 Listen to Streaming Audio James Bovard has written for The Wall Street Journal, Playboy, the American...
Everybody in Israel is talking about the Next War. The most popular TV channel is running a whole series about it. Not another war with the Arabs. Not the nuclear threat from Iran. Not the ongoing bloody confrontation with the Palestinians. The talk is about the...
Americans who oppose the war in Iraq find it easy to hold President Bush in contempt – as they should, considering his deceptive and disastrous wars that have killed thousands. What's harder is finding much to like in John Kerry. Most antiwar American voters...
BANGKOK – A clash at the start of this week between hundreds of Muslim protesters and heavily armed Thai troops in the country's south – which left over 80 dead – has delivered a blow to Bangkok's view that it has the local communities on its side. The...
The Cato Institute and the Objectivist Center on Friday offered a full-scale inter-libertarian debate on war. Topics included "Principles Guiding Military Intervention," "Has the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq Advanced America's Interests in the Middle...
RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's first run-in with the military ended up giving a boost to the movement to gain access to the secret archives dating back to Brazil's 1964-1985 military dictatorship. The Torture Never Again Group...
The tragicomedy of errors currently playing in Iraq took an ominous turn the other day when the ambush of 49 Iraqi National Guards by insurgents was blamed on … the U.S. And, no, the accuser wasn't Michael Moore, or Noam Chomsky, or any of the other demonized...
UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations, which was on the verge of adopting a new international convention against nuclear terrorism, has been forced to shelve the proposed treaty because of opposition from Islamic states. "After six years of protracted negotiations,...
