Napoleon III, Emperor of France, saw his opportunity. With the United States sundered and convulsed in civil war, he would seize Mexico, impose a Catholic monarchy and block further expansion of the American republic. In 1863, a French army marched into Mexico City....
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Bush's decision to appoint a commission to examine why government officials averred with certainty that Iraq had "weapons of mass destruction" underscores the political side of globalization, and, as such, is not too surprising. After all, he had a model on the other...
Reuters is one of the more independent wire services. So, a recent news story from Reuters – flatly describing American military activities in Iraq as part of "the broader U.S. war on terrorism" – is a barometer of how powerfully the pressure...
The suicide bombing Sunday in the normally tranquil north of Iraq has brought new uncertainty five months before the United States is due to cede political power to Iraqis. The bombing at the offices of two Kurdish groups allied closely to the United States spread...
Badly wounded by the total collapse of its prewar contentions that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, the administration of President George W. Bush has embarked on a strategy of diversion and delay. It hopes to divert...
One can hardly overlook the reverberation of triumph in the words of Ariel Sharon's own chief spokesman, Ranaan Gissin on Thursday, January 29. When commenting on a suicide bombing that killed 10 Israelis and wounded others in Jerusalem, Gissin exhorted: "This...
Chalmers Johnson, who is one of those people I consider interesting enough to have taken the trouble, now that I'm advanced enough chronologically to have developed a grudging and still mostly fleeting sense of mortality, to meet personally, is carving out for himself...
"Invitations to NATO are open to all countries that have democratic systems of government, market economy, civilian control over military, and where there is a sign that the democratic system is working." ~ U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright NATO and...
We're on the list of top 50 news websites – and, if we don't make a success of our quarterly fundraising drive, we're practically down to our last dime. It's really kind of funny, if you think about it. I mean, here we are – three guys and as many computers...
