Mideast War – Really Imminent? By now, a war in the Middle East will not catch anybody by surprise. Predictions have been so persistent, that the actual surprise is that the war has not started yet. Some people, not necessarily optimistic by nature, start...
So how did it go? The Mitchell Report recommended a cease-fire and freeze of all settlements activities. As spin, Sharon announced a "cease-fire" to push aside the issue of settlements. Then we had the Palestinian suicide bomb killing 21 young Israelis in...
The utter hypocrisy and outright evil of the "war crimes" trials being conducted in the Balkans these days is epitomized by the Croatian court trying Fikret Abdic for alleged "crimes against humanity." It is a story in which everything is inverted: in which the West,...
THE CUNNING OF REASON Those who have been keeping track of such things will recall that ten or so years ago, as the Soviet bloc was falling by the wayside, Francis Fukuyama proclaimed "the end of history" in a famous article that he later expanded into a...
I was sipping Carlsberg from a tap with the bosses of the Old Montreal western restaurant in Chongqing when the announcement came that Beijing had indeed won the bid for 2008. Beijing was prepared. The streets exploded in red and yellow, music and fireworks filled the...
The saga of the Bytyqi brothers, covered in my last column, is an object lesson in how the War Party exploits every opportunity, no matter how dubious, to make propaganda for their cause. It also epitomizes how the media cooperate, allowing themselves to be used as a...
The House of Representatives on Thursday will give as much consideration as it is likely to give this year to the ongoing US involvement in Colombia's civil war and cocaine manufacturing and trafficking crisis. At issue will be the government's foreign operations...
In digging up evidence that Slobodan Milosevic isn't exactly Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, the International Criminal Tribunal for War Crimes in the Former Yugoslavia (ICTFY) may be uncovering more than it bargained for – evidence of American covert operations that...
With the arrest and coming show trial of Slobodan Milosevic, we have several years of the most unpleasant prospects ahead of us. First of all, don't think it's going to end with Slobo: already the Bosnian Serbs are being pressured to give up Radovan Karadzic and...
Are Americans barbarians? The Japanese have every right to think so. It wasn't until Japanese Prime Minister Junichero Koizumi and his government made a concerted effort to pressure Washington that the US military turned over one US Airforce Staff Sergeant Timothy...
