Last week, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan released a report on Israel's attack on Jenin in April. A reminder of the highlights: After two weeks of heavy fighting in Jenin's refugee camp, journalists and human rights organisations (including Human Rights Watch and...
President Bush's popularity among American voters remains high, thanks primarily to his new and improved status as a wartime president. As he and his administration realize this fact, they accordingly plan to extend his status by escalating the war against terrorism...
A couple of interesting tidbits appear on the "new this week" section on the website of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee: "Take Action! Urge Bush to Approve $200 Million to Israel… A $29 billion homeland security bill that recently...
Although the Senate hearings on a possible American attack on Iraq were generally disappointing, an inclination to ask questions does seem to have surfaced as the possibility of such a war becomes more imminent. Certainly the comments from House Majority Leader Dick...
It's a sadly telling fact of American political life that Rep. Dick Armey didn't dare tell us what he really thinks of Bush II's war plans until he decided it was time to retire: Republican politicians (and Democrats, for that matter) don't usually defy the War Party...
In 1998 the UK government did perhaps the best thing it has done to date: it conducted a Strategic Defence Review (SDR) which was foreign policy, not resource led. Instead of defence policy being cobbled together in response to whatever scraps the Treasury affords the...
There have been complaints that I have not named the "liberventionists." I do not see the necessity for this, since I assume that readers of this website read widely. For the record, however, let us stipulate that liberventionists include at least the following: many...
Just as the news that the Pentagon's Defense Policy Advisory Board had declared Saudi Arabia "the kernel of evil" was rolling into Washington, and roiling US relations with the Kingdom, another far less-noticed item off the Dow-Jones Newswire was putting the whole...
You've really got to hand it to the neocons: they sure know how to conduct a bang-up propaganda campaign. The leak of a "briefing" to the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, which targeted the Saudis as the real locus of world terrorism, is all over the place: not only...
One expects a certain amount of corner-cutting on both procedures and concern for civil liberties during time of war. That's one of the main reasons some of us prefer to avoid war when at all possible, because we know that government power will grow and citizen...
