At the top of the Selective Service Agency's homepage there currently appears the following Notice:       NO DRAFT ON HORIZON!    …

To refresh and re-focus my mind in respect of the Israeli and Palestinian story, I did what almost any U.K. citizen can…

Well.  At least this outrageous document appears to have been stillborn.  Aside from whatever initial publicity it may have generated via the P.R. – wire…

Meet Prime Minister Grave and President Deteriorating.  Have you ever seen two more diminished figures than these?  In the annals of slam-dunk wars of…

Two weeks ago today, on the heels of Operation Autumn Clouds, a week-long Israeli offensive into the northern Gaza that featured a Fallujah-class military siege…

Friends: The history of politics is replete with candidates (even potential candidates) saying one thing, then doing another.  Also with the political…

The American President just landed in Hanoi.  He is there to participate in this weekend's summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.  His trip…

Critical opinions by an important "high-level" body organized under the auspices of the United Nations, on a topic of immeasurable importance in…

In one of his old "Turning the Tide" blogs at ZNet ("Iraq and Vietnam," June 10, 2004), Noam Chomsky wrote that he didn't "see much…

A friend once asked me whether I might be able to find any of the records of the U.S. Senate Committee on…