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Recent polling on the views of the U.S. public about the "Global War on Terror" (GWOT) suggests increasing ambivalence, confusion, and lack of reliable information. Events over the past few days, topped by the revelation that President George W. Bush ordered secret warrantless wiretaps of phone calls and e-mails of U.S. citizens, are unlikely to … Continue reading “The Fog of the War on Terror”

Amid efforts by a bipartisan coalition in Congress to ban torture and inhumane treatment of detainees in the "war on terror," a major U.S. human rights groups charged Monday that Washington ran a secret prison in Afghanistan where suspected terrorists were held in total darkness for days and even weeks at a time from 2002 … Continue reading “Group Exposes CIA’s ‘Dark Prison’ in Afghanistan”

[Note: This is the second of two pieces focused on reevaluating the costs of the Sept. 11 attacks. In the first, “Shark-bit World,” I took the New York Times back to the week before Sept. 11, 2001, time-machine style, and found a forgotten world in which the Bush administration, with its poll numbers dropping and … Continue reading “The Forgotten Anthrax Attacks of 2001”

Watch Ron Paul’s speech on video. Our country faces major problems. No longer can they remain hidden from the American people. Most Americans are aware the federal budget is in dismal shape. Whether it’s Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, or even the private pension system, most Americans realize we’re in debt over our heads. The welfare … Continue reading “The Blame Game Can Wait”

The dilemma the U.S. has had for a half-century is that the priorities it must impose on its budget and its plans have never guided its actual behavior and action. It has always believed, as well it should, that Europe and its control would determine the future of world power. But it has fought in … Continue reading “The Empire’s Dilemma”

In an essay for Bitter Lemons last year, I discussed the ways in which neoconservatives (in tandem with their allies in the Likud Party) were directly involved in manufacturing the invasion of Iraq. What evidence is available to us today if we seek to support the hypothesis that neoconservatives are following a similar script against … Continue reading “After Babylon, Persia”

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – At the invitation of the Perdana Peace Foundation, I spent the week attending their Global Peace Forum. The foundation was started by Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, the former prime minister of Malaysia, who was also the keynote speaker at the event. The conference was attended by approximately 2,000 people from dozens … Continue reading “World Peace Forum Moves to Create International Peace Secretariat”

Editor’s note: The following is the text of a speech given to the Perdana Global Peace Forum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Dec. 16, 2005. I wish to thank Tun Dr. Mahathir and the Malaysian peace groups for organizing this historic event. The themes of this conference are war and peace. Almost everyone claims to … Continue reading “War, Peace, and the Net”

Don’t believe what you’ve heard in our domesticated media; the much-ballyhooed White House compromise with Sen. John McCain on torture is largely smoke and mirrors. The focus has now shifted to a fresh outrage, as President George W. Bush attempts to defend the deliberate flouting of U.S. laws regulating eavesdropping on American citizens – as … Continue reading “Bush’s Underwhelming Gesture on Torture”