Being the most destructive endeavor humanity has ever practiced, it is difficult to comprehend why wars seem like such a common phenomenon. That is, unless one realizes that the very root of the civic religion permeating the modern world is in human gullibility, and...
Recorded 15 February 2003 in Ontario, California WMV format (requires Windows Media Player) RM format (requires RealPlayer) (this version is on a small server – you may have to try repeated times to get access)
Some of the victims were demonstrators. Some were children in their homes, trying to get away from the gas seeping under the door. Some were old men walking down the street. One of the victims was a thirteen year-old boy, playing in a schoolyard when a gas canister...
On Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell dropped a bombshell at a Congressional hearing on Iraq and revealed that he had a transcript of an "upcoming" audio message from Osama bin Laden that betrays the links between bin Laden and Iraqi President...
Colin Powell launched a preemptive strike early Tuesday morning against the latest evidence that the alleged Bin Laden-Al Qaeda link is a lot of malarkey. The first indication that anyone had of a new message from Osama bin Laden was Powell's statement to a Senate...
One blank is filled in by \'France\', and the other by \'the United States\'; the writer is British, Eurosceptic, from the Conservative Party\'s right wing, and is writing in The Daily Telegraph. The two sentences are separated by the sum total of 58 words, and Mr...
Thanks to the editors of The American Conservative for putting my piece on the antiwar movement online – that means I don't have to write a column today! Not that I'm going to be idle. Because, you see, I have to get together yet another fundraising letter...
In the case of an American war on Iraq, Palestinians will not be watching for a "smart bomb" heading their way, but for the Israeli army forcing them out of their homes. This possibility is of greater danger that one might think. It is seldom that the...
I suppose there are people who imagine that the conservative movement was pretty much on the right track, before it succumbed to a boarding party of former Cold War liberals – some of whom had been Trotskyites before they were Cold War liberals. Certainly, some...
We are now being inundated with hosannas to Colin Powell's UN speech as having "delivered the goods" and, supposedly, a knockout blow to the "give inspections a chance" crowd, but I don't believe a word of it because, well, I can't say it any better than my friend Jim...
