Brian Doherty soothes our fears about the Bush administration--or does he? Fears and anxieties about American empire don't need to be rooted in any perceived fever swamp, where only openly sinister and nakedly pecuniary motives push American foreign policy....
Brendan O'Neill takes a swing at antiwar legalists: The focus on the pre-war intelligence and legality suggests that while some in the anti-war camp have technical quibbles about the current war in Iraq, they do not take a principled, political stance against Britain...
Jo Wilding's commentary while traveling inside Iraq creates a brief but valuable glimpse of what is happening inside the country and how the war has affected the lives of Iraq's people. Here, the circus performers, traveling past minefields, watch the celebrations in...
What happens when you send Republican neocons to oversee writing a "New Constitution" for Free Iraq? You get stuff like this: The individual has the right to security, education, health care, and social security. The Iraqi State and its governmental units, including...
....Bush's first major advertisement blitz loudly evokes details from the 2001 terrorist attacks that left 3,000 people dead -- including firefighters carrying a flag-covered stretcher out of smoldering New York rubble, sirens blaring in the background -- it is mute...
NY Times: Greg Powell, a lawyer for one of the freed men, Ruhal Ahmed, 21, from Tipton, said Thursday that Mr. Ahmed was on his way to meet his family. Mr. Powell said he had met his client in a London jail and found him in good health, but said the treatment by the...
From Editor & Publisher: A new study of how the media has covered the issue of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), released today, concludes, "Many stories stenographically reported the incumbent administration's perspectives on WMD, giving too little critical...
Left and Right are moribund designations, but so far as the policies of the self-identified go, I must disagree with Gus diZerega's assertion that Leftists oppose the draft. Though most (not all) on the Left presumably oppose a military draft, many have a fondness for...
Spencer Ackerman, writing in Iraq'd, points out that according to the Transitional Administrative Law (TAL), Americans are now the proud owners of the New Iraqi Army. Nathan Brown of George Washington University identified this situation first in his assessment of the...
They enlisted to defend our nation from attack. Now, they are encamped on the other side of the world as an occupation force with cloudy and confusing goals. Though they did sign on the dotted line voluntarily, with the coming of Bush and the neocons, like the...
