Federal Courts Challenge the ‘War on Terror’

A 15-minute interview conducted by "Philip Dru." Check out his other interviews with prominent libertarians and antiwar personalities.WMV format (requires Windows Media Player) MP3 format (download requires any MP3 player)Brigid O’Neil is a researcher for the Center on Peace & Liberty at the Independent Institute. Ms. O’Neil received her B.A. Cum Laude in political science … Continue reading “Federal Courts Challenge the ‘War on Terror’”

Another Christmas in China

December 27, 2003 Another Christmas in China Christmas in Chengdu has reached great proportions. Shopkeepers have seen the frenzy with which people shop during the holidays and they therefore adorn their storefronts with Christmas trees, snowflakes and white-lettered exhortations to enjoy and buy. I even saw a Chinese version of the nativity scene at a … Continue reading “Another Christmas in China”

A Fearful Christmas

Orange is not exactly a Christmas color: more like Halloween, but then there is definitely a Halloween-ish quality to our chieftain of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge, who raised the color-coded terror alert from an “elevated yellow" to “high” orange, and furthermore warned: “The information we have indicates that extremists abroad are anticipating near-term attacks that … Continue reading “A Fearful Christmas”

What a Tangled Web the Neocons Weave

While most of the world is still trying to come to terms with the neo-imperial ambitions of the post-Sept. 11 Bush administration, U.S. political analysts, particularly those on the libertarian right and the left, have been trying to map out the various forces behind the administration’s hawks in order to better understand and counteract them. … Continue reading “What a Tangled Web the Neocons Weave”