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Whence comes the asserted power of the current President and his new Sicherheitsdienst to inspect, search, spindle, mutilate, etc., everything and everyone found within the generous bounds of their authority? Leave aside the claim of these people that US law prevails, or ought to prevail, everywhere in the galaxy, and just focus on the “internal” … Continue reading “A Homeland So Secure We Wouldn’t Want To Live There”

“If it was an accident, it was the best planned accident I’ve ever seen.” – USS Liberty Survivor The repurcusions of American foreign policy affect not only third world nations and the American taxpayer, but also the American servicemen at the front lines. One unforgettable example of the last involved the crew of the USS … Continue reading “Dead in the Water”

Let’s see: a con-man makes up a few non-facts, invents some quotes, and passes off his minor lies as legitimate news over a period of some 18 months. Result: the executive editor and the managing editor of America’s newspaper of record resign in disgrace. On the other hand, U.S. and British government officials, over roughly … Continue reading “LIARS ‘R US”

‘Tis the time for transitions and reflections in China these days. Next week, infamous photos of the "June 4th Incident" will emerge from the heap of glowing statistics that China shovels onto the world stage day in and day out. Old Deng will drift in from the grave and experts – and old freedom fighters … Continue reading “Summertime Plotting”

China finds itself once again in a tight spot vis-à-vis her "proxies." North Korea has rarely left the spotlight after being enshrined in the Bush Administration’s Hall of Evil, but China has avoided any direct accusations flowing from the West concerning N. Korea’s WMD programs and human rights abuses. The recent "runs for the border" … Continue reading “Tight Spot”

While the hawks in the Bush administration attempt to justify the logic behind a preemptive strike against Iraq as the likelihood of finding the country’s alleged weapons of mass destruction grows increasingly remote, the truth behind the war is finally coming to light. In his State of the Union address in January, President George W … Continue reading “Why Saddam Was Doomed, WMDs or None”

This article from a year ago is no less relevant today. Some of the players have changed: Zoran Djindjic is no longer among the living. There’s been a change of scenery as well, with Iraq supplanting Afghanistan as the next stage of Perpetual War. The chain of interventions continued from the Balkans to Afghanistan, then … Continue reading “Retrospect”

Surfing the blogs and reading the usual suspects in the usual propaganda outlets, I get the impression that the war hawks have settled on a response to the WMD snipe hunt fiasco and the broken promise of democracy fiasco. This is to respond to every bit of bad news – and every new sign of … Continue reading “Question of the Day: ‘Would You Have Left Saddam in Power?’”

Here’s what we know so far about Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction: of the 600 or so sites identified by United States intelligence and Iraqi officials as places where the country’s biological weapons may be hidden, about 100 of these sites have been searched over the past six weeks and not a single speck … Continue reading “The Iraq War Was Always Based On Shaky Evidence and Bad Intel”

The good news is that, according to one of President Bush’s top advisors, "If many more months go by and our troops are still there, the Iraqis are still fighting each other and us, and we still haven’t found any WMD, there will be hell to pay." The bad news is that all of us, … Continue reading “HELL TO PAY”