Our newest columnist, Doug Bandow, a trenchant critic of interventionism, was formerly a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. He worked as special assistant to President Reagan and editor of the political magazine Inquiry. He is the author of The Politics of Envy:...

Retired Col. Sam Gardiner lays it out for Steve Soto at the Left Coaster:"I. Period of Building Pressure: This could be 60 days or even six months in which the US and European leaders continue to talk to their publics on the failure of the Iranians to comply with "the...

Thirty months ago, the NYT's Tom Friedman wrote,The next six months in Iraq—which will determine the prospects for democracy-building there—are the most important six months in U.S. foreign policy in a long, long time.He likes that six-month time frame. A lot....

Another new book that may be of interest to AWC readers is Greg Grandin's Empire's Workshop: Latin America, The United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism, which examines the roots of that "Salvador Option" the neocons have been so keen to employ in Iraq.

Bill Kauffman's new book, Look Homeward, America: In Search of Reactionary Radicals and Front-Porch Anarchists, looks mighty interesting. From the Introduction:Look Homeward, America—and yes, the echoes of Thomas Wolfe and George McGovern are intentional—offers an...

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The wife of a U.S. soldier who is a conscientious objector has informed me of a website to help soldiers know their rights: soldiersrights.com.

They have lied us into war for the benefit of Israel and Iran (and have since lied about and plotted against the latter), killing who knows how many hundreds of thousands of people, turned the two-bit rapist nobody, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, into a new bin Laden, tortured...

On May 11, 1973, charges against Daniel Ellsberg for his role in the Pentagon Papers case were dismissed by Judge William M. Byrne, who cited government misconduct. The "misconduct" was revealed by White House Counsel John Dean (under questioning in the Senate...

Tuesday afternoon I spoke with former CIA analyst and founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, Ray McGovern, about his confrontation last Thursday with "Defense" Secretary Donald Rumsfeld about his lying us into war with Iraq, Lt. Gen. Hayden's...