Posted on: May 4, 2005, Source: The Nation and TomDispatch.com
As is true of so many adversaries, the nuclear haves and have-nots share more in common with each other than with other nations: They both want nuclear weapons.
High-powered word-torturers such as President Bush want us to believe that the word "relationship" can be stretched to cover relations of hostility and rejection. But that doesn't change the facts.
Posted on: Apr 21, 2004, Source: The Nation and TomDispatch.com
Kerry is stuck between politics and truth. After all, it is Kerry's bravery as a soldier fighting the mistaken war, not his bravery as a veteran opposing it, that helps him in his bid for the presidency.
Posted on: Apr 8, 2004, Source: The Nation and TomDispatch.com
On June 30, the Bush administration intends to turn over something to someone in Iraq, but no one can quite define what that will be. It's certainly not sovereignty, by any definition.
Posted on: Mar 11, 2004, Source: The Nation and TomDispatch.com
With its doctrine of 'preventive war,' the Bush administration has loosed a principle of brute force on the world. As the first anniversary of the Iraq War approaches, the full costs of the Bush Doctrine are truly being felt.