I live in Appleton, WI, and Ill bet each and every American $5.00 that not one member of al-Qaeda can locate it on a map. Now Im sure there are few football fans out there who might take me up on that bet seeing how Appleton lies just southwest of its more...
Reality 1, Neocons 0
The Marines have landed, and the situation is not well in hand, nor will it ever be. I am speaking, of course, of Haiti, that boil on the Western Hemisphere's posterior which no plaster can ever cure. In the 18th century, Haiti was so rich, thanks to the sugar trade,...
Haiti: A Case History
There's no new column this Friday because of a wonderful event in San Francisco: the opening (or, rather, re-opening) of the movie version of We, The Living, Ayn Rand's first novel. This is quite simply the greatest movie ever made. Period. Somehow, some way, the...
Sending Blair to Prison
Following the decision not to prosecute the GCHQ whistleblower Katharine Gun, the suspicion is that the government will do anything to keep secret the advice submitted to it by the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, on the legality of the Iraq war. There is a very...
Déjà vu All Over Again in Haiti
http://www.independent.org/tii/antiwar/e040302.html
The Consequences of Betrayal
In one of his speeches Prime Minister Tony Blair made the statement that he had every confidence in British Intelligence regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction. As highly regarded as it is, British Intelligence is certainly not infallible. Whether by mistake or...
A Foreign-Born President?
No sooner had Arnold Schwarzenegger been elected Governor of California, than he immediately started agitating on behalf of a constitutional amendment allowing a foreign-born citizen to hold the highest office in the land. Not that he's ambitious, or anything ....
Dead in the Water Many thanks to Mike Ewens for his review of "Dead in the Water" and for his support for the Liberty survivors! I just found the web page (courtesy of searcher WebFerret) and was surprised that I hadn't seen it before! A new book, Operation...
Nepal Communists Plan to Train 50,000 Child Soldiers
This week, Nepal's Maoist rebels announced plans to raise a militia of 50,000 children by April, amid reports of mass abduction, even sexual abuse of kids, who they allegedly use as cannon fodder. On February 22, the leader of the Maoists student wing, Kamal Shahi,...
US-Colombia Coca Eradication Called Destructive, Futile
Aerial spraying of Colombia's coca crops should be halted because of its harmful impact on local farmers and the environment, and because it is not heaving any impact on the availability of cocaine in the United States, three NGOs argue on the eve of the State...


