What a shock. I honestly didn't see this coming. What happens when you design a "missile defense", which might, someday, be able to stop all missile attacks, and thus nullify the ability of any nation in the world to respond to a US attack? This is what happens;...
GOP Congressman calls on Bush to Nuke Syria
The US congress has certainly come a long way since the days of John C. Calhoun and John Quincy Adams. Amy Goodman and Jackson Thoreau have both reported that congressman Sam Johnson (R-Texas) has called on president Bush to nuke Syria. Thoreau quotes Johnson as...
A June Attack on Iran?
Gary Leupp, writing in Counterpunch; Before Bush's Tribunal of Freedom and Godliness, Syria stands guilty until proven innocent. The sentence on its regime was pronounced even before this Year Four, as was the sentence on Iran. The plan is to execute both before Year...
The Third Stage of American Empire
William Rivers Pitt has a flawed, but compelling analysis of American Empire (posted at truthout.org), which he sees as having taken place in three stages; There have been three stages of American empire since the creation of this nation. Each has fed the other, and...
Militarization of space
From orbiting lasers to metal rods that strike from the heavens, the potential to wage war from space raises startling possibilities—and serious problems SHOULD THE UNITED STATES, or any nation for that matter, weaponize space? The answer depends not simply on the...
Counter-recruitment in schools
A Turning Point for the Anti-War Movement? One of the barriers to counter-recruitment activism in colleges and universities has been a set of laws known as the Solomon Amendments, which since 1997 has threatened campuses with the loss of federal funds if they ban...
Basic Training: Basic Cruelty, Basic Misogyny
An interview with Tyler Gilbert, who recently went through basic training in the US military; "They Called Iraqis 'Ragheads'" The guy who carried my tray was the nicest guy I met there. He was Islamic. His name was Thomas. He decided that he couldn't kill people. He...
Dangerous doctrine
A U.S. policy of preemption and a push for new nuclear weapon designs could be a recipe for disaster that makes proliferation more likely, not less. No More Nuclear Hypocrisy: Defending the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty While the alarm is repeatedly sounded about...
US bully losing influence over Canada
The Canadian government has rejected US orders that it comply with the incredibly dangerous and wrongheaded waste of resources euphemistically called the "missile defense shield"; Prime Minister Paul Martin said Thursday that Canada would not join the contentious U.S....
FBI abandons secrecy claims against Edmonds
Sibel Edmonds is about to make life very unpleasant for the FBI; The Department of Justice has abandoned its claim that allegations made by a fired FBI translator are secret, paving the way for a court case that will air embarrassing allegations about incompetence,...
