Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz's weekend tour of Iraq appeared to be going splendidly: everywhere he went – even in Saddam Hussein's former stronghold of Tikrit – Iraqis greeted him with smiles and warm handshakes, no doubt adding to his conviction...
"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction." Vice President Dick Cheney, 8-26-02. "For those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devises or banned weapons, they're wrong, we found them."...
The Man Who Had Five Heads Israel's former Prime Minister Barak and his present successor Sharon made extra-judicial killing – euphemised at first as "targeted assassination", later as "targeted prevention" – a key element in Israel's "defence" policy....
Retired Captain Ward Boston, a former U.S. Navy attorney who was senior legal counsel to the military investigation of the near sinking of the U.S.S. Liberty by the Israelis, in 1967, has finally revealed the truth in a signed affidavit: "For more than 30 years, I...
Do you want to know why President George W. Bush's focus on the war against terror was redirected to war against Iraq and the Muslim Middle East? Read Professor Claes G. Ryn's new book, America the Virtuous: Crisis of Democracy and the Quest for Empire. Ryn is a...
Thursday's unexpectedly lop-sided vote by the Republican-led U.S. Senate to end a 40-year ban on U.S. citizens travelling to Cuba marks another embarrassing defeat for President George W. Bush. Less than two weeks ago the president announced new measures to make it...
A one-hour 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)
I posed this question to students and friends this week: Which is more important to you, China hosting the Olympics or shooting a man into space. Most answers revolved around questions of economics, pride and China's increasing contact with and role within the...
They normally come in the form of simple, one or two-paragraph queries, affectionately, and sometimes not so affectionately, referred to by his underlings and colleagues as "snowflakes." But Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld's latest ruminations blew in like a...
The leak of a memo written by U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld confessing that the Iraq war is going to be "a long, hard slog" has dealt a body blow to the War Party – and signals a new level of desperation on the part of the radical clique that lured us...
