The events in Madrid should be proof enough that Australia has no choice but to follow Washington George Washington, that is. In 1796, George Washington penned his farewell address in which he expressed what was known as the "Golden Rule" of American foreign...
Was It All Planned? Iraq and Empire-Builders
"It all began when the Berlin Wall came down in November 1989, effectively ending the Cold War and prompting the Pentagon to undertake a search for a new set of principles, in part to prevent Congress, then controlled by the Democrats, from slashing the defense...
Pakistan’s Reward Could Turn Into Liability
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell's major surprise this week making Pakistan a major non-North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) ally of Washington was greeted with enthusiasm in Islamabad, but with stony silence here in New Delhi. Pakistani Foreign...
Terror War’s Legal Cost
The Bush administration believes that habeas corpus is a luxury that the US cannot afford in its war against terror. Habeas corpus is the legal principle that is the foundation of Anglo-American freedom. It prevents the government from picking up a person and holding...
Israel’s Killing of Yassin Endangers Americans in Iraq and Elsewhere
David R. Sands makes excellent points about the connection between Ariel Sharon's murder of Shaikh Ahmed Yassin on Monday and the security of Americans in Iraq and elsewhere. (I use the word "murder" to refer to extra-judicial killing outside the framework of...
Kosovo Burning Must agree with you. Have listened to BBC reports and also our local commercial and state-funded media reports, and the blatant ignoring of reality of the situation so that their little Albanian buddies are absolved of their crimes is nauseating. Thanks...
The Antiwar Movement in a Military Town
On the day after his nineteenth birthday in 1966, my father received his commission as an officer in the same North Carolina National Guard unit that took his father to Europe in World War Two. By 1969, having left the Guard, Dad was in Vietnam with the Fourth...
9/11 Revisionism
"They will never give the full story" that's what former Senator Max Cleland, who resigned from the 9/11 Commission in protest over White House stonewalling, said to Amy Goodman on the "Democracy Now" radio program. But of course not. The Bushies would just as...
Iraq One Year Later
The Iraq war began about one year ago with the swift and decisive overthrow of Baghdad and the Hussein regime. We are only beginning to understand, however, the true scope of our ongoing occupation of a nation rife with civil, ethnic, and tribal conflict. July stands...
It’s Lonely (and Potentially Dangerous) at the Top
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