Spies Disagree With Neo-cons
Tim Reid of The Times on America's weapons evidence flawed, say spies: As the hunt continues for Iraq’s alleged stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons — the main justification cited by President Bush for...
Tagged: Foreign Policy & Military & War
More on Backpedaling Administration
Sheldon Richman of the Future of Freedom Foundation on Backpedaling on Iraqi Weapons: The campaign of deception continues, but the handwriting is on the wall. President Bush himself now says that so-called weapons of...
Chemical Weapons Still Hiding
The Sydney Morning Herald on Vilified weapons inspectors may have got it right: President George Bush's National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice, is now acknowledging that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program is less clear-cut,...
Boot on Your Neck
Jason Halperin of Alternet on Patriot Raid: Two weeks ago I experienced a very small taste of what hundreds of South Asian immigrants and U.S. citizens of South Asian descent have gone through since...
Butler’s Blues
Butler Shaffer on Where Is Smedley When We Need Him? Smedley Butler is a name with which you may not be familiar, even though he twice won the Congressional Medal of Honor. If he...
Vets and Common Sense
Over the weekend, I was one of the grateful recipients of a thank you letter sent to members of Veterans for Common Sense by sociologist James Roger Brown: I am sorry if anyone construes...
Stupid All Around
Scott McPherson of the Future of Freedom Foundation on A Stupid War: President Bush and his allies claimed emphatically during the months leading up to the invasion of Iraq that Saddam Hussein was an...
Trading With The Enemy
Rex Nutting of CBS.MarketWatch.com on US Companies Quietly Caught Trading with the Enemy: In the past two weeks, the government has revealed that 57 companies and organizations have been fined for doing business with...
Disturbing
Journalist Michel Guerrin of Le Monde, interviewed Laurent Van der Stockt, a veteran photojournalist, with experience covering combat in "the first Gulf War, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Africa and the Occupied Territories." Fairly disturbing is...