The sign has been put out front: “Iraq is open for business.” We read about things done and said by the Iraqi…
Property before life New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered virtually all the city’s 1,500 police officers to leave their search-and-rescue missions last…
London, another casualty of the War on Terror In the period leading up to the US invasion of Iraq, from many quarters…
Eastern European ‘revolutions’ In previous reports I’ve discussed why I thought that the political uprisings in Eastern Europe of the past 18…
During the Clinton administration, the sentiment has been proclaimed on many occasions by the president and other political leaders, and dutifully reiterated…
I’m often asked to suggest books for radical reading purposes. “I wanna know what’s really going on,” it typically goes, “but where…
Media Modes – 1 and 2 Mainstream media performance alternates between two distinct modes of reporting: the first, ‘fig leaf’, mode presents…
Ronald Reagan’s biggest crimes were the bloody military actions to suppress social and political change in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Afghanistan,…
Of all the issues that the presidential campaign will revolve around, none is more important to me than foreign policy. I say…
It dies hard. It dies very hard. The notion that terrorist acts against the United States can be explained by envy and…
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