Are we returning to the bad old days of spying on peaceful Americans? In February, the most ominous challenge to political freedom from the administration of George W. Bush occurred in Des Moines, Iowa, when federal prosecutors issued grand jury subpoenas to Drake...
It's my conviction that a conscientious columnist should admit his own faults and flaws. When a reader accuses me of making "a rather big leap from a very small statement" in another reader's comment, I check myself. In this specific case, the reader was right: I did...
The Bush administration, I fear, is severely learning-disabled. Rational people, acting as individuals or as a group, learn from their mistakes. They gather data, they make decisions, and they take actions. Then they assess the feedback from reality and adjust. For...
AP reported that the US-appointed Iraqi Governing Council (IGC) issued a demand early on Saturday that the US cease its military action against Fallujah and stop employing "collective punishment." Not only has what many Iraqis call "the puppet council" taken a stand...
The complete absence of Iraq's fabled "weapons of mass destruction," the "flawed" intelligence that supposedly fooled U.S. government officials into believing their own propaganda, the lies and skullduggery that are now being exposed, have raised the question: well,...
With warfare escalating in Iraq, syndicated columnist George Will has just explained the logic of the occupation. "In the war against the militias," he wrote, "every door American troops crash through, every civilian bystander shot – there will be...
Perhaps the one thing you can be reasonably sure of is that we're not getting the whole story about the current troubles in Iraq (even by reading almost everything, from all the different sources made available to you on Antiwar.com). This is not necessarily because...
One thing that can be said about U.S. neo-conservatives is they do not lack for ambition. "We need an Islamic reformation," Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz confided on the eve of the US invasion of Iraq last year, "and I think there is real hope for one."...
The recent bombing of a mosque in Fallujah meant fiery deaths for about forty Iraqis, but if the hawks get their way, it will be only the beginning of the deadly reprisals waged by the U.S. against that town in retaliation for the massacre of Americans there last...
Presstitutes' Darling Nebojsa Malic brought up an excellent point with regard to conflict of interest. The board of ICG is made up of George Soros who is trying to destroy regimes in eastern Europe so that he can economically exploit and loot them. Doesn't he have a...
