President George W. Bush continues to mislead the American people as to the cause of terrorism directed against the United States. This week he guaranteed that more Americans will die from terrorist attacks due to his stabbing the Palestinians in the back. He has from...
MONTREAL - President George W. Bush's closest international ally, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, arrived in Washington on Friday arguing he can still make sense of the "roadmap" to peace between Israelis and Palestinians. But U.S. peace groups say all traces of...
War What is meant by the saying: War is the health of the state? ~ Ron Maczka Eric Garris replies: War is always used by politicians and bureaucrats to increase the size of the state. Every major increase in state power has come about as a result of war. The Draft I...
The US Government’s 2003 invasion of Iraq spawned one of the most vocal, productive, and visible military protest movements in history, and inspired peace-minded artists the world over to create powerful images expressing and communicating their outrage. The new...
The press had lots of fun with the recent robot debacle in the Mojave Desert. Competing for $1 million in prize money, 15 vehicles headed off on a 142-mile course through some of the most forbidding terrain in the country. None managed to navigate even eight miles....
When the anchor of public television's main news program goes out of his way to tell viewers that he's setting the record straight about a recent historic event, the people watching are apt to assume that they're getting accurate information. But with war intensifying...
Because we forget that the United States was once considered a rogue nation exporting terrorism, the nation's senior officials risk making serious policy mistakes today. The United States a rogue nation? Though it may be hard to believe, before the Civil War, people...
George W. Bush wants to "change the world": he said so a few dozen times the other night in his Q&A with reporters. That was his ultimate answer to everything. When confronted at his recent press conference with the embarrassing paucity, in retrospect, of the case...
I keep trying not to take it personally, the fact that this president annoys me more and more every time I see him in public. There's the slow explanation part, over-pronouncing words, as if addressing a rather slow-witted fourth-grader, when he thinks he's explaining...
Lawrence Kaplan, neo-Jacobin ideologue and shameless apologist for the carnage in Iraq, claims that Americans wouldn't mind having 30,000 of our troops killed in Iraq if it achieves Bush's "strategic objectives." No one knows any longer what these objectives are...
