Administration Scripts Another War
Michael Theodoulou writing for the Christian Science Monitor on 'Crude' US rhetoric could boost Iran's hard-liners: There is an unpleasant sense of deja vu in Tehran. In 2001, Iran helped the US oust the...
Author: James Landrith
The Long, Dark Backpedal of Shame
Karen DeYoung and Walter Pincus of The Washington Post on U.S. Hedges on Finding Iraqi Weapons: Officials Cite the Possibility of Long or Fruitless Search for Banned Arms: Pressed in recent congressional hearings and...
Victim Disarmament, Pentagon Style
Tyler Marshall of the Los Angeles Times on Search prompts rioting in Iraq: In the third consecutive day of Iraqi violence against US military occupation, residents enraged over house-to-house searches in this western town...
Biometric Blues
NCPA on Biometrics May be Impractical: Biometrics — the statistical study of biological phenomenon such as the shape of your face, the minutiae of your fingertips, the bone structure of your hand or the...
The Ghost of Gulf War Future
The Guardian on 'Gulf war syndrome' soldiers threaten legal action: Four soldiers have threatened to sue the Ministry of Defence after suffering symptoms similar to "Gulf war syndrome", their lawyer said today. The men...
More Friendly Neo-con Bashing
Karen Kwiatkowski on Neocons on the Outs?: We have seen them in action – chicken hawks who conveniently missed out on military service, who safely skipped the wars of their generations, and yet now...
The Myth of the Indispensable Chickenhawk
Bob Wallace on The Brain of the Chickenhawk: These men are deserving of nothing but contempt. They're cowards, all of them. They think they are so intellectually and morally superior to everyone else that...
Bank of Morality – Account Balance: $0.00
Jacob G. Hornberger of the Future of Freedom Foundation on Moral Responsiblity for Iraqi Graves: Given the failure of U.S. forces to find Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, the newest justification for the...
Conservative Sandwiches
Sheldon Richman of the Future of Freedom Foundation on Phony-Baloney Constitutionalists: Conservatives favor strict construction of the U.S. Constitution. How do we know? They never stop telling us so. But judging by what they...