A 15-minute interview conducted by "Philip Dru." Check out his other interviews with prominent libertarians and antiwar personalities.WMV format (requires Windows Media Player) MP3 format (download requires any MP3 player)Brigid O'Neil is a researcher for...
Objector.org I have a young man that went and joined the army last January when there was a big patriotism thing going on and he has yet to go. ... Now he ... has decided this war is not what it was supposed to be and wants out of his so-called contract. What we need...
Another year has gone by, bringing no relief to the embattled people of the former Yugoslavia. Same as before, it has been a year of direct and political violence, plunder and extortion, with the ever-present Empire occasionally flexing its muscles to remind the...
History, Ismael Reed once said, is the story of warfare between secret societies. I'm not ready to go that far, but I think it's fair to say the history of U.S. foreign policy over the past forty years has been the story of the war between two not-so-secret societies:...
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Orange is not exactly a Christmas color: more like Halloween, but then there is definitely a Halloween-ish quality to our chieftain of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge, who raised the color-coded terror alert from an "elevated yellow" to "high" orange, and...
Back in my tadpole days, sometime in the Pleistocene, my fellows at Roehm Junior High (Frederick, not Ernst) enjoyed hanging the name of "Scrooge" around my neck. Whether or not they did so in response to my "Bah! Humbug" attitude toward Christmas...
I. IDEOLOGICAL POWER REVISITED I have alluded at times in this space to John A. Hall's division of power into three types – ideological, political-military, and economic.(1) I have also suggested, over the past several years, that in our time, the first of the...
While most of the world is still trying to come to terms with the neo-imperial ambitions of the post-Sept. 11 Bush administration, U.S. political analysts, particularly those on the libertarian right and the left, have been trying to map out the various forces behind...
Last evening, in Amman, we met with Fadi Elayyan and Jihad Tahboub, two Palestinian young men who were imprisoned for two months, without charge, by US Occupying forces who seized them, in Baghdad, on April 10, 2003. They are trying to help four of their companions...
