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While President George W. Bush, his neoconservative advisers, and centrist Democrats bask in the glow of America’s status as "the one remaining superpower in the world," signs are mounting that other major powers do not intend to hunker down and suspend their own efforts to shape history. The most striking result of Russian Defense Minister … Continue reading “Laughing Dragon, Dancing Bear”

Anybody who has any doubts that George Bush is a true believer in himself should finally be convinced by his awarding the Medal of Freedom to the three blunderers of the war in Iraq. Gen. Tommy Franks allowed Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to browbeat him into planning a war with fewer troops than were needed. … Continue reading “The Three Stooges”

The Tyrant of Bosnia struck again Thursday: almost six months after the last purge of such kind, Imperial viceroy Paddy Ashdown has launched another, proscribing officials, confiscating property and threatening further repression if the Bosnian Serb authorities failed to comply with near-impossible demands by next April. The pretext this time, just as this summer, was … Continue reading “Another Imperial Purge”

U.S. President George W. Bush is not known for his love either of books or of history. Nonetheless, he has frequently been compared to two former presidents who were both avid readers and even writers of history – Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Both former leaders also figure large in the historical imagination of some … Continue reading “History Debunks Bush Myth”

Justin Raimondo is taking the day off. His column will return Wednesday. In the 1950s, when the cold war was at its height, a series of spectacular espionage scandals – involving top-level spies for the Soviet Union, our former WWII ally – roiled American politics and defined the political culture for decades to come, giving … Continue reading “Israel’s Fifth Column in Washington”

Like the drug gangs you’ve always worried about, charming military recruiters have weaseled their way into American public schools and are luring your child to what could be his death with the very things that other gangs offer: immediate cash for fast cars, a macho image to scare off bullies and impress the girls, and … Continue reading “Enlist Today!”

Many of the signs and portents hovering around the beginning of a second Bush term look less than promising for partisans of peace. As cabinet members have resigned, they have for the most part been replaced by people whose salient qualities are less competence or expertise than personal loyalty to the president, several of them … Continue reading “Reality Catching Up to Empire?”

Just when it appeared that Syria was complying in earnest with U.S. demands to secure its border with Iraq and even making unprecedented peace overtures to Israel, key neoconservative opinion-shapers are calling on President George W. Bush to take stronger measures against Damascus, possibly including military action. The media campaign was launched last week, when … Continue reading “Are They Serious About Syria?”

Another Iraq Exit StrategySapienza has it about right. And for the record I am 81 years old and have been in one of their damned wars, and watched a half-dozen others. All bad. “In ‘Spring and Autumn’ there are no righteous wars.” And “democracy” is a fraud; when you register to vote you are signing … Continue reading “Backtalk, December 17”

Question: How many people does it take to fill a mass grave? No, this is not a joke, because although I don’t know the "official" answer, the one thing I do know about mass extermination is that it’s typically not a subject that lends itself well to humor. The question stems not from some ghoulish … Continue reading “Mass Graves: Are We There Yet?”