The deaths of 16 Americans in a Chinook helicopter might have an impact on how ordinary Americans think about the ongoing conflict in Iraq, although it seems to have had little or no impact on the imperial capital just yet. Or did it? In a "profile in...
The major new player on the National Security Council (NSC), Robert Blackwill, attended as did the chief Asia specialist at the State Department, Assistant Secretary James Kelly. But when it came time at the Chinese embassy's dinner last week to lift glasses in honor...
There was hardly anything left of the helicopter shot down by Iraqi insurgents on Sunday, in which 15 were killed and 21 seriously wounded: the thing seems to have disintegrated even quicker than the administration's case for starting this war in the first place....
An interesting report in Friday's Wall Street Journal looked back at last spring's Topoff2 drill, which simulated a biological attack in Chicago and a dirty bombing in Seattle. May was a big month for gloating, you'll recall, and Topoff2 was one of many encores in the...
Many Americans today may not be familiar with Will Rogers. However, Will Rogers was at one time considered by many to be the most popular man in America. He once said, "America has a great habit of always talking about protecting American interests in some...
The Neoconservatives' Plan for American Empire An inteview with Karen Kwiatkowski A 1½-hour interview conducted by "Philip Dru." Check out his other interviews with prominent libertarians and antiwar personalities. WMV format (requires Windows Media...
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)
A major Pentagon hawk has abruptly resigned his post in a move that, in the context of other recent developments, is likely to fuel speculation that the White House might be trying to soften the harder edges of its controversial policies. The Pentagon announced...
Happy Halloween. I type this knowing that I don't have a costume for tonight. But that doesn't matter so much. After all, in the United States every day is an occasion for costuming and obscuring the truth behind the public fictions. Costuming of a sort allowed...
On the surface, the Vietnam war and the attack on Iraq by U.S. forces don't have much in common. In the 1960s, when the Vietnam conflict was at its height, the United States was in a global face-off with a rival of comparable size and power, the Soviet Union. Our...
