Cashing In On Patriotism
In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, Madison Avenue wasted little time devising ways to draw customers to their products. Some of these efforts have bordered on the unseemly. United Airlines is...
View ArticleRadioactive Mail
For fifty years the purveyors of irradiation have been looking for a purpose. It all began, of course, in the 1950s under President Eisenhower’s Atomic Energy Commission, specifically its “Atoms for...
View ArticleAssault on the Bio-Weapons Convention
Even as its citizens suffer through the greatest biological weapons scare of modern times, and perhaps ever, the United States is promoting a plan to undermine international controls on biological...
View ArticleThe Meridia Manifesto
The undersigned, university professors from different Latin American countries and participants in the First Latin American Colloquium on Interpretive Systemology carried out in M?rida Venezuela...
View ArticleTerrible Images of a "Just" War
Sami Ullah was asleep when it happened, and so his friends and neighbours had to tell him about the bomb that struck his house and what it did to him and his family. How the American planes, which had...
View ArticleHiroshima to New York
The terrorist assault on various targets in the United States of America on 11th September 2001 is an extremely cowardly act that deserves to be condemned in no uncertain terms. The tragic loss of life...
View ArticleMission Accomplished?
Finally Israel declared the objectives of its invasion of the Palestinian “A” territories. To arrest the ones who killed Minster Zeivi, to kill Palestinian “terrorists, to arrest as many as they can,...
View ArticleGenocide Scholar “Silenced” on Academic List For Comments About Bombing of...
Genocide scholar Adam Jones claims he has been “silenced” on H-Genocide, an academic mailing list for the genocide-studies community, after attempting to post materials and commentary on the U.S.-led...
View ArticleThe Turner Diaries and 9/11
The post-September 11th guessing game rages on. Did the U.S. government know beforehand that the World Trade Center would be attacked? Who is responsible for delivering unsolicited anthrax mail? I...
View ArticleThe Hidden Agenda of the War on Terror
The war against terrorism is a fraud. After three weeks’ bombing, not a single terrorist implicated in the attacks on America has been caught or killed in Afghanistan. Instead, one of the poorest, most...
View ArticleWhat It Means to be Against the War
War is one of the great privileges of civilization, quite characteristic of our own. It’s a moment to join together in a group celebration in which deep passions are allowed to arise, the clearest of...
View ArticleWhy I Opposed the Anti-Terrorism Bill
This has been a tragic time in our country. Before I discuss this bill, let me first pause to remember, through one small story, how September 11th has irrevocably changed so many lives. In a letter to...
View ArticleBrzezinski On “Moscow’s Illusions”
Nezavisimaya Gazeta [On October 24, Marina Kalashnikova interviewed Zbigniew Brzenzinski, National Security Adviser to Jimmy Carter and the original patron of the Mujahideen, for the Russian newspaper...
View ArticleTerrorism, a Definitive History
“Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and...
View ArticleA Way Out of the Middle East Impasse
With the bombs and missiles falling on Afghanistan in the high-altitude US destruction that is Operation Enduring Freedom, the Palestine question may seem tangential to the altogether more urgent...
View ArticlePoisoning the Well
The first principle of humanitarian relief is that it be impartial, that aid be given on the basis of need without any consideration of political agendas. The United States government, the same...
View ArticlePut the War to a Vote
A letter to the editor in the Daily Minnesotan (“Left lacks leadership”) took issue with my persistent criticism of the loosely defined, endless U.S. war on international terrorism. The letter’s author...
View ArticleThe Left and The Just War
The left is getting itself tied up in knots about the Just War and the propriety of bombing Afghanistan. I suspect some are intimidated by laptop bombardiers and kindred bullyboys handing out white...
View ArticleNukes on the Loose
The images of the hijacked planes crashing into the World Trade Center are nightmare images of unspeakable horror that will forever be a part of our reality. Imagine, however, another nightmare — that...
View ArticleWe’re All Afghans Now
When the bombing began, I was cooling my spiked heels, sitting tight on the frontlines of the New War on Terrorism in a 747 bound for glory, devastation or Frankfurt airport, steeling myself to...
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