Americans of a certain age may remember the murder of students on the Kent State University campus 34 years ago and the anger it once aroused. On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen killed four college students and wounded nine others – one of them, Dean Kahler,...
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You didn't have to be Nostradamus to predict the Iraq war would come to this. Heck, even I was able to predict it clearly. In a column for Antiwar.com as the Iraqi invasion began (March 2003), I wrote the following: "I'm not afraid of our troops conquering in Iraq....
When in 1970 Life magazine published photos taken by Senator Tom Harkin, then a lowly congressional aide, of the infamous "tiger cages" in which suspected Viet Cong men, women and even children were kept secretly – and crippled – by the U.S.-run South...
The temperature in Washington heated up today as more news about torture in Iraq surfaced. Perhaps seeking a respite, President Bush escaped Washington, heading for South Bend, Indiana, and a campaign event. Elsewhere, in response the growing world-wide dismay over...
I don't believe in democracy. In some liberal circles this makes me a heretic who should be shot. Less reactive liberals smiled blankly at my consternation at our British government's collaboration with America in raining down hell on Yugoslavia – for...
Why do Americans who talk about freedom and democracy rely on coercion? The political left is all for coercion against the rich. Freedom and democracy mean taking the rich's money and giving it to those who have a "right" to it. For conservatives, freedom and...
If you step back a moment and think about it, you will realize that you are constantly being propagandized to approve of war – not just the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but war generically. We should resist. War is killing, maiming and disfiguring human beings....
There isn't time to write this, which is why I'm tapping it out an hour or so into a return flight to San Francisco from New York, where I've just spoken to a group of 150 or so. And a most appreciative group it was. I was astonished to discover, however, that my...
During the Cold War, Soviet intelligence agencies sometimes provided us "disinformation" – false information, intended to obscure the truth. Hence, there were frequently sharp differences of opinion within our own intelligence community as to whether or...
