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A Hollywood marketing man, Michael Levine, is pushing what is undoubtedly a good-hearted effort to bridge the gap between the United States and the Muslim world to improve both the intellectual content and the marketing savvy of America’s public relations effort to the world. With all due respect to what is undoubtedly a sincere undertaking, … Continue reading “Get the Product Right First”

"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction." Vice President Dick Cheney, 8-26-02. "For those who say we haven’t found the banned manufacturing devises or banned weapons, they’re wrong, we found them." President George Bush, 5-30-03. When it became obvious that the neoconservatives would succeed in turning the … Continue reading “A Holocaust in the Making”

The Man Who Had Five Heads Israel’s former Prime Minister Barak and his present successor Sharon made extra-judicial killing – euphemised at first as “targeted assassination”, later as “targeted prevention” – a key element in Israel’s “defence” policy. Gideon Levy of Ha’aretz (14.9.2003) wonders: ”Last week, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) announced that soldiers from … Continue reading “Lesser-Known Stories from the Only Democracy in the Middle East”

Retired Captain Ward Boston, a former U.S. Navy attorney who was senior legal counsel to the military investigation of the near sinking of the U.S.S. Liberty by the Israelis, in 1967, has finally revealed the truth in a signed affidavit: “For more than 30 years, I have remained silent on the topic of the USS … Continue reading “OUR ‘FRIENDS,’ THE ISRAELIS”

A one-hour 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)

Do you want to know why President George W. Bush’s focus on the war against terror was redirected to war against Iraq and the Muslim Middle East? Read Professor Claes G. Ryn’s new book, America the Virtuous: Crisis of Democracy and the Quest for Empire. Ryn is a learned, insightful and courageous scholar who ably … Continue reading “America Versus the World”

I posed this question to students and friends this week: Which is more important to you, China hosting the Olympics or shooting a man into space. Most answers revolved around questions of economics, pride and China’s increasing contact with and role within the international community. Virtually, all answers were given with the qualification: I have … Continue reading “To ‘Patriotic Fervor and National Cohesion’”

Thursday’s unexpectedly lop-sided vote by the Republican-led U.S. Senate to end a 40-year ban on U.S. citizens travelling to Cuba marks another embarrassing defeat for President George W. Bush. Less than two weeks ago the president announced new measures to make it more difficult for people who travel to the Caribbean island illegally. The 59-36 … Continue reading “Cuba Vote Shows Bush’s Waning Authority”

They normally come in the form of simple, one or two-paragraph queries, affectionately, and sometimes not so affectionately, referred to by his underlings and colleagues as "snowflakes." But Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld’s latest ruminations blew in like a freak autumn blizzard, catching official Washington off-guard and leaving spokespersons scrambling for guidance that could reassure reporters, … Continue reading “Rumsfeld’s Ruminations Reinforce Reservations”

It’s said that you can judge a man by who his enemies are and what they’re willing to say about him to shut him down. With that in mind, it might be instructive to examine what the political enemies of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Linguistics professor Noam Chomsky have said about him. David Horowitz, reformed … Continue reading “Does Noam Chomsky Hate America?”