A few reminders: Iraq is not our country. Our invasion and occupation are illegal, being in violation of both international law and our own traditions. We were lied into war. We are still being lied to. Both the Bush administration and the Democrats intend to maintain...
Folly in the Baltics
The row over the removal of a statue of a Soviet soldier in Estonia is another bit of evidence why major powers should never ally themselves with small, powerless countries. By the second day, Estonian officials were calling for the European Union to consider the...
George and Richard
President George Bush's claims about what will happen if we pull out of Iraq is almost word-for-word identical to Richard Nixon's speech explaining why we must not pull out of Vietnam. A "precipitate withdrawal" would result in a bloodbath, destabilization of...
Officeholding Liars
It's been said often that while everyone is entitled to his own opinion, no one is entitled to his own facts. Today, we hear misstatements all the time. Some of them are deliberate lies. Some of them are just mistakes. A House committee has just exposed the terrible...
Pelosi and Syria
The White House's huffing and puffing about Nancy Pelosi's visit to Syria is just a bunch of hooey. Congress is an independent and coequal branch of our government. Its members can go anywhere they wish to go, and that includes the current House speaker, Pelosi. As...
Forget Israel, Befriend Russia
A little more than half of the U.S. population lives in 75 metropolitan areas. Russia has 4,399 nuclear warheads deployed. Except for 624 to be carried by bombers, they are all land-based and submarine missiles. Furthermore, this past week Russia test-fired a...
War Talk
It's interesting how much of our language is taken from war. Politicians in particular like to wage "war" on such things as cancer, drugs and terrorism (all of them lost so far). Aspiring politicians who probably haven't had a real fight since second grade always...
Fear Stupid Acts
I hope President George Bush will not be so stupid as to allow the Israelis to push him into an attack on Iran. Based on his past performance, however, I'm not sure what he will do. Washington today is so riddled with intellectual dishonesty, you have to take what...
Credibility, a Precious Trait
Credibility is a precious trait, but once it is lost, it's darned difficult to restore. That's the main problem of the Bush administration. After the outrageously false claims about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, it has no credibility. Hence, its new claims that...
Congress’ Two Choices
It's axiomatic, based on history, that no nation can maintain an empire abroad and a democracy at home. We are now about to pay for our empire, and the price is American freedom. This is the message of a new book by Chalmers Johnson, a historian. His latest book is...