A half-dozen former CIA agents investigating prewar intelligence have found that a secret Pentagon committee, set up by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in October 2001, manipulated reams of intelligence information prepared by the spy agency on the so-called...
Congressman Ron Paul praised two landmark votes in Congress that could mark a turning point in the battle to protect civil liberties threatened by the Patriot Act. Paul has been an outspoken critic of the Patriot Act since its hasty passage in the weeks following the...
The death of Saddam's two sons was the occasion for a well-organized Team Bush assault on the President's most potentially dangerous – and unforgiving – enemy: the American public. The Washington Post reports: "The Bush administration made a coordinated...
The truth about whether or not Saddam Hussein sought to buy uranium from Niger has dominated the news for the past several weeks. Many of those challenging the administration on this issue are motivated more by politics than by policy. Some of today’s critics...
The Palestinians have now reached a so-called Hudna, or internal cease-fire. Armed resistance to the occupation, as well as terror attacks on Israeli citizens, have fallen to a minimum: there has not been any massive terror attack since the 11th of June, considerably...
It seems that every day we read about a young American soldier being killed in Iraq. Three were killed in a 24-hour period from Sunday to Monday. In its November 25 issue, "Fortune'' magazine, long before the war started, said an American occupation would be...
Today's column was originally written for the History News Network, in response to a piece, "Isolationism Strikes Again," by Ronald Radosh, originally published as a pamphlet by the neoconservative "Foundation for the Defense of Democracies." In his screed, Radosh...
I have just returned from Korea, where I spent a few days at a conference in Asan City, a couple of hours south of Seoul. (Full disclosure note: It was sponsored by the Interreligious and International Federation for World Peace, which is part with the constellation...
In the moments before he set off on what was to be his final stroll across the hills and copses near his home, British government weapons expert Dr. David Kelly sent a number of emails to friends saying he was being haunted by "many dark actors playing games." He was...
Eric Holt is a 28 year old Reserve Infantryman from New York State. Standing guard outside Baghdad's Republican Palace the other day, he told a reporter from the London Independent his thoughts on the recent cakewalk: "We didn't win this war, not at all. I don't...
