The fact that a great many Jewish neoconservatives–people like Joe Lieberman and the crowd over at Commentary–plumped for this war, and now for an even more foolish assault on Iran, raised the question of divided loyalties: using U.S. military power, U.S. lives and money, to make the world safe for Israel.

And in case you don't remember what our historic mission in the Persian Gulf is, it is the same mission in which we temporaily enlisted Saddam himself, until he proved uncontrollable, viz., to ensure that the sea lanes, and the oil flow, are…

As the American president embarked on his farewell tour of Europe last week, Der Spiegel, echoing the sentiments of a number of leading newspapers on the Continent, pronounced “Europe happy to see the back of Bush.” Virtually everyone seems to believe that George W. Bush’s tenure has undermined trans-Atlantic ties…

The idea that strong identities are an inherent threat to democracy and peace became further entrenched in Europe in the wake of World War II. Exponents of what I call postidentity theories – postnationalism, postmodernism and…

Would you rather be a Neoconservative or a Progressive? That is a trick question. The trick is in the fact that, although there may be differences between the rhetoric and short-term agendas of these groups, their long-term goals actually are the same. They may differ over how to fight a war in the Middle East but not over the right of the

Be that as it may, the degree to which there truly are definable qualities to these labels is the same degree to which we can understand that they are similar. For example, if there is any doubt of the similarity between the collectivism of Marx…

Iraqi government officials protest that such an arrangement would entirely nullify Iraqi sovereignty. Ah, but Iraqi sovereignty, like all other principles, people, institutions, laws, or considerations, must yield to the imperatives of Washington’s rule, aka Democracy.

“George the Dumber insists that congressional approval of this proposal — which is a treaty by any honest use of language — does not require Senate approval or congressional action of any kind.”Another loss in the…

Truth is truth regardless the source; and the truth is, you are not getting the whole story, or even much of the truth from mainstream media. So, if that is where you have been getting all your news, the information derived from this source is mostly misinformation, too often outright disinformation.

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Since 9/11, there has been an increasing war on photography. Photographers have been harassed, questioned, detained, arrested or worse, and declared to be unwelcome. We've been repeatedly told to watch out for photographers, especially suspicious ones. Clearly any terrorist is going to first photograph his target, so vigilance is required…

The problem with movie-plot security is it only works if we guess the plot correctly. If we spend a zillion dollars defending Wimbledon and terrorists blow up a different sporting event, that's money wasted. If we post guards all over the…

Although the bully, mugger, the sneak thief, and the con man are not the only types of government operatives, they make up a large proportion of the leading figures in government today.

Sometimes the “political exchange” into which you are hauled kicking and screaming rests on such a ludicrous foundation, however, that honesty compels us to classify it, too, as a mugging. I have in mind such compassionately…

In a month of horrific natural disasters it’s instructive to consider what one of the biggest UNnatural disasters in memory looks like. That is the decline in America’s position in the world from where we were when George W. Bush inherited power on Jan. 20, 2001.

The issue goes way beyond Bush's decision to invade Iraq in the middle of the war in Afghanistan. U.S. government literally broke down during the Bush years. The interagency process was destroyed as Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld set up what…

US President George W. Bush on Monday called Iran the “single biggest threat” to peace in the Middle East ahead of a visit to the region centered on celebrations of Israel's 60th anniversary…

Bush was due to meet Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday at the start of a five-day trip anchored on Israel's 60th anniversary celebrations and aimed at bolstering US-backed Middle East peace talks launched in November.

For many years the American public have been told what to do, who to vote for, and to obey every command without question. You have been brainwashed into believing that you live in a country that has freedom and democracy, and have been so busy living this “dream” that you haven?t noticed that it vanished a long time ago!

In 1920 the “Ordnertruppen” (created by Hitler to protect gatherings of the Nazi party from disruption by rivals) “thrashed” the opposition in a Munich meeting. The Nazis called this event the Saalschlacht (meeting…

The world we could be living in…

Bernays’s version of a “democratic society,” in which political decisions are marketed to consumers, has many modern proponents. Consider a comment by Andrew Card, George W. Bush’s former chief of staff….

Recreate ‘68 has been planning to demonstrate against the DNC Convention in Denver. Just as Rush Limbaugh has predicted.

“We hope that (the Cohens) would use that fair process to guide themselves in terms of their application process,” she said. “I'm just going to believe that they're going to have two different types of events because…

Army reservist Sergeant Marshall Thompson spent a year in Iraq working as a military journalist. He reported from across Iraq, interviewing thousands of US soldiers. In October 2006, Sgt. Thompson walked the entire 500 miles across his native state of Utah to protest the war and call for a withdrawal of US troops

SGT. MARSHALL THOMPSON: But you told me that I would be arrested if I tried to walk. I cant believe that. But what if someones walking on the highway and you dont know why they’re walking? Can you just arrest them and check? He…

Demonstrations over the Olympics remind us that freedom is losing out to authoritarianism

This is an excellent article. Perhaps we should be optimistic that China is in reality coming to share in the freedom of the West yet, because of its vast population and potential for ideological and then political fragmentation/dissolution, is…

Speaking at North Dakota’s Democratic State Convention yesterday, Clinton made a public plea to the state’s pledged delegates that until now she has only made in private; she asked them to switch sides. Clinton’s democracy be-damned style of campaigning has got to come to an end.

According to Clinton "There is no such thing as a pledged delegate, the whole point is for delegates, however they are chosen, to really ask themselves who would be the best president and who would be our best nominee against Senator…

Clinton’s lie was far more serious -and she hasn’t been criticized enough for it. If Cheney claimed he’d come under fire when he hadn’t, there’d be no end to the media’s relentlessness! To claim that you had to sprint to dodge bullets when you didn’t- we’re veering into pathological territory here, something far more serious than a faulty memory.

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Robert Mugabe was desperately attempting to cling to power tonight despite his clear defeat in Zimbabwe's presidential election by blocking the electoral commission from releasing official results and threatening to treat an opposition claim of victory as a coup.

Biti warned that there was still scope for fraud. He said his party is still encountering irregularities including the sudden appearance of additional ballot boxes at polling stations where the count has been completed. He also said that MDC…

“The bill Congress sent me would take away one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror — the CIA program to detain and question key terrorist leaders and operatives,” - President George W. Bush explains why he vetoed the bill outlawing CIA waterboarding. Well now at lease we can do the same to him…. legally.

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A federal judge on Friday allowed whistle-blower site WikiLeaks to resume operation in the United States.

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Dennis Kucinich does not treat politics like a popularity contest. He is a voice for the people and ideas that we need to repair this country.

Now after spending several months thinking about and writing about the things that Kucinich ran on, we are looking at the choice we are left with between Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee in the Democratic twosome ready and able, they assure us,…