I went to a peace rally the other day, and, I'll tell ya, it was almost enough to turn me into a warmonger. The event, which took place in San Francisco's Dolores Park, and was organized by the "International A.N.S.W.E.R." (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism)...
What Bush Should Have Said
What Bush Said "How do I respond when I see that in some Islamic countries there is vitriolic hatred for America? I'll tell you how I respond: I'm amazed. I'm amazed that there's such misunderstanding of what our country is about that people would hate us. I am...
A SAUDI-9/11 CONNECTION?
The campaign to link Iraq to the 9/11 attack, never all that convincing to begin with, reached new heights of implausibility with Bill Buckley weighing in on the subject. Alas, the former enfant terrible of the conservative movement and the hero of my youth...
A Conflicted Activist Speaks Out
I am one of many deeply conflicted ex-activists who worked to stop the war on Vietnam but isnt (at least as of October 10) quite sure how to act in the current situation. Lets get the bona fides out of the way first. In the 1960s and early-1970s, I was...
THE ANTHRAX WAR
A recent interchange between the odious Gen. Wesley Clark now a CNN news "analyst" and a member of the "Talk Back Live" audience underscores the danger inherent in Operation Enduring Freedom. A man who identified himself as having...
Building A Peace Movement In Wartime
With the launching of cruise missiles and bombs the war is truly on. It would be prudent to take American leaders at their word that this is likely to be a protracted conflict think Cold War rather than Gulf War if only because war is the health of the...
Afghanistan and Chinese Power
Not many countries are developing as swiftly as China. After 50 years of foolishness, despair and acute poverty, the 1980s and '90s came as a thunderbolt for most Chinese. As a result, the development is most uneven, with the latest Benz honking furiously at...
WARTIME MADNESS
They're telling us everything's changed since 9/11, it's a new era, and I'm afraid they're right: it's the Age of the Nutballs, where the bizarre reigns supreme. Citing "a senior foreign official," the New York Times reports that, the day before 9/11, Osama...
KU KLUX COULTER
Ann Coulter is a leggy, sassy blonde telebimbo, (and constitutional lawyer) whose career as a TV talking head took off during the Clinton scandals and, like Clinton, she never really went away. Her column, distributed by Universal Press Syndicate, has been a...
What Can We Do About Terrorism?
This three-part series will propose the actions I believe our government should take to fight terrorism. Before looking at those proposals, however, we need to establish some ground rules. Perfection isn't an option Rule #1: No solution is going to be perfect. Our...


