Civil liberties groups Tuesday hailed the withdrawal of subpoenas issued last week to four peace activists by federal prosecutors in Des Moines, Iowa as a significant victory, but insisted that the government must explain why they were issued in the first place. The...
Most Americans yet believe President Bush did the right thing in ridding Iraq and the world of Saddam Hussein. Yet, how we were persuaded to go to war raises grave questions about the character and competence of those who led us into it. As we now know, Iraq had no...
Grassroots cyber-movement MoveOn.org, which claims more than two million U.S. members, has launched a major campaign demanding Congress formally censure President George W. Bush for lying to it about the threat posed by ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. Joined by...
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Ali Jarbawi has long seen the creation of two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side, as the best solution to the Middle East conflict. But the professor of political science from Bir Zeit university in the West Bank is not sure any more. Jarbawi believes...
A spreading and increasingly violent rebellion against Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is destabilizing the Caribbean nation in ways that could move it to the top of Washington's foreign-policy. U.S. officials are deeply concerned that the violence, if not...
In 1961, I returned from the Soviet Union with a collection of propaganda posters. I used the posters to illustrate to students how government in a closed society can substitute propaganda for fact. The most dramatic poster in my collection depicts a fascist who...
Casualties I think that the reported deaths in Iraq are just a cover-up of what is really happening there and how many are really dying. Who is keeping in track of those who have been seriously injured by bombs, motors, etc., and have died in the hospital 2 or 3 or 4...
Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes (I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts) -Virgil Sharon's recently announced intention to unilaterally evacuate the occupied Gaza Strip did come as a surprise. Up to the last couple of months, the so-called founding father of Jewish...
If a "rogue nation" or swarthy men with foreign accents did it, we know what we'd call it. What the world's most powerful military did to the village of Abou Siffa must be called the same thing: terrorism. A small citrus grove was the last stop on our tour...
