The American public has been deceived and locked on a course toward conscription and a wider war. On April 20 Republican Senator Chuck Hagel acknowledged the deceit when he urged the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to support the restoration of compulsory military...
Bush in Deep Denial? Two reactions to the article: Your argument against preemptive aggression is convincing but more importantly for me, for the first time I realised its enormous, gaping flaw, namely: if you are going to strike something before it becomes truly...
The American press needs to end its lovey-dovey relationship with the Pentagon. The Pentagon has provided ample evidence that it can propagandize the American people without the help of a lap-dog press. It is not the job of the press to support the troops. That is the...
"Speaking of the Palestinians, they were dealt a lethal blow," exulted a jubilant Ariel Sharon, "It will bring their dreams to an end." Sharon was bragging about his trip to Washington where he bullied Bush into selling out the Palestinians as thoroughly as Neville...
Civil society groups in Honduras applauded the government's decision to withdraw the country's 370 troops from Iraq, while voices in El Salvador called for a pullout of the Salvadoran forces as well. "We were taken by surprise, because it looked like the troops...
The story of Yusuf Fakri Amash is the story of so much of Fallujah. The 11-year-old boy just managed to escape from the town with his family. But not before the U.S. military killed his best friend. "Ahmed was in my class," he says. "He was younger than...
U.S. soldiers' negligence appears to be the cause of Monday's killings of two Iraqi media workers in the city of Samara north of Baghdad, said an official from the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) on Tuesday. The organization had not completed its probe...
I'm traveling today, and so there's no real column. I'm on my way to New York, where I'm speaking at the state convention of the Libertarian Party, an event I look forward to: as a longtime libertarian (small-'l'), I have a lot to say, and you'll be reading it next...
Testimony before Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, April 20, 2004 This brief addresses three areas. First, what mistakes have been made in the Coalition administration of Iraq, and why? Second, what is the current situation? Third, what steps can be taken to...
President Bush may never have actually read the memo contained in his President's Daily Brief (and here) titled "Bin Ladin [sic] Determined To Strike in US." The brief has been at the center of a controversy about whether President Bush took appropriate action to...
