A Cynical Manipulation

Following President Bush's hour-long interview with NBC's Tim Russert, we can now state conclusively that President Bush deliberately misled the American people and continues to do so. Item: Bush claims he was acting on the best intelligence there was when he decided...

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Gazans Fear This Might Not Be Goodbye

Outside the Israeli settlement of Neve Dekalim a group of Palestinians waited patiently under a corrugated iron roof near an Israeli barrier to cross back to their village. The Gush Katif bloc of settlements in southern Gaza, of which Neve Dekalim is one, have cut...

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Violence Stymies UN Efforts to Return to Iraq

Multiple suicide bombings in Iraq early this week and escalating violence against U.S.-led multi-national military forces are stymieing U.N. efforts to return to the war-devastated country. The world body pulled its international workers out of the occupied nation...

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Backtalk, February 13, 2004

GoodBye Gancarski I agree 100% with getting rid of Gancarski, if anything, it should have been done a lot sooner. I'm not sure I could have been as easy on him as you were (maybe you don't think you were easy on him, but I was thinking of a Singapore-style public...

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For Bush, It’s All Unraveling

One must be careful not to crow too quickly. Perceptions in a large and complex society can shift quickly, often for reasons that seem to make little sense to those of us inclined to be excessively rational or coldly analytical. But it seems more than possible that...

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Both Parties AWOL

The limitless capacity of both major parties to distract us from what's really important may be their true and only function. That thesis, at any rate, is certainly on display this election season. The Democrats are now howling that President Bush has no right to call...

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The Irrational Empire

It is not necessary to examine Iraq or Afghanistan to realize that much of what makes up the United States' foreign policy makes very little sense. Washington's 14-year record in the Balkans reveals as much upon even a cursory examination. For example, the US demands...

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New US Plans for Nukes Hypocritical, Say Experts

Proposed new US curbs on the proliferation of nuclear weapons are fundamentally hypocritical, US academics, military analysts and peace activists said Wednesday. "(US) President George Bush seems committed to writing a new chapter in the grotesque saga of US nuclear...

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The War Party’s Waterloo

The top two stories on yesterday's front page heralded an event long anticipated in my various columns on the subject: the investigation into the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame – which may soon be dubbed Scooter-gate – is about to morph into a scandal...

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