The US congress has certainly come a long way since the days of John C. Calhoun and John Quincy Adams. Amy Goodman and Jackson Thoreau have both reported that congressman Sam Johnson (R-Texas) has called on president Bush to nuke Syria. Thoreau quotes Johnson as...
I also happened to catch this on the telly. The only thing James Wolcott left out of his otherwise spot-on post is that CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer is an alumnus of the Likudist Jerusalem Post and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
Gary Leupp, writing in Counterpunch; Before Bush's Tribunal of Freedom and Godliness, Syria stands guilty until proven innocent. The sentence on its regime was pronounced even before this Year Four, as was the sentence on Iran. The plan is to execute both before Year...
William Rivers Pitt has a flawed, but compelling analysis of American Empire (posted at truthout.org), which he sees as having taken place in three stages; There have been three stages of American empire since the creation of this nation. Each has fed the other, and...
Is Paul Wolfowitz getting kicked upstairs? From Aghanistan to Iraq to the World Bank -- the list of neocon conquests is impressive. What's next -- the Vatican? Or perhaps they aim a bit higher ....
The Lebanese now seem determined to oust their occupiers. Nothing surprising about that. The desire to be free of foreign rule should be easily grasped by all. As Old Right icon Robert Taft said of American postwar interventionism,It is based on the theory that we...
