Far rightwing journalist and resurgent imperialist Max Boot has come back from Iraq and pronounced the US venture there a resounding success. Of imperialism he said, "No need to run away from the label America's destiny is to police the world." This gonzo...
The other day, I did something I don't do much anymore: I actually bought a magazine, feeling a twinge of nostalgia as I paid the clerk. With nearly everything important online, my natural stinginess impels me to foreswear periodicals printed on dead trees, for the...
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President Bush looked calm, determined and resolved Sunday night as he capped off Week One of the National Football League with a reminder that U.S. troops are committed to a much more serious and deadly game halfway around the globe. Still it was not difficult to...
In a tiny downstairs room in San Francisco, there is a play being performed that, in true theatrical (and San Franciscan) spirit, confronts not one but two hot-button socio-political issues facing the world community today. The somewhat ironically-named New...
Matt Welch is vexed. According to him, U.S. involvement in Iraq has unleashed a storm of lies. No, not about uranium from Niger, or 45 minute launch times, or vast stores of anthrax, not those little fibs. Welch is referring to "lies" that exaggerate the...
The Sunday morning talk shows were teaming with administration spokesmen, prepping the public for their boss's evening pitch for support on Iraq. Here's Colin Powell on "Face the Nation": "It's going to cost more, and there will be continued sacrifice on the part of...
It is significant that US Treasury Secretary John Snow arrived in Beijing on the heels of the six-party talks concerning peace on the peninsula. Snow arrived to discuss the undervalued yuan, which may be held up during next year's elections as the dead rat fouling up...
I'm not surprised at the news that the citizenship oath all immigrants take is being "updated." An empire, after all, demands a different sort of loyalty than a republic. As the Los Angeles Daily News puts it: "The citizenship oath, which requires immigrants to...
If even many supporters of a ground invasion of Saddam Hussein's Iraq are disappointed in how the military action has gone to date, then much of the blame for the disillusionment can be placed on the rhetoric used to sell the use of ground troops. Despite Hussein...
