Category: Geopolitics

Hooray!! Iraq is now a free, sovereign nation! Let me repeat that because it just sounds so sweet… Iraq is free!!! What a blessed day! I woke to the news yesterday morning and ran out into the street, heart and bathrobe aflutter, waiting for the throngs to join me in spontaneous celebration… Hmm. Well, it…

Is Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page the first mainstream pundit to affix -gate to the word Iraq (No contest: Iraq-gate trumps Monica-gate)?

In the face of George Bush’s “non-denial denials” (Woodward and Bernstein’s Watergate term) regarding torture, the British have so far bettered us in calling things by their right names. Bush sidesteps questions over prisoners’ torture, The Financial Times, 6/11/04 (article) …when asked whether he had authorised the use of aggressive interrogation techniques to fight the…

I feel that someone in this space needs to comment in some way on the Reagan legacy, so I guess I will. The two biggest things that will linger in memory are clearly the end of the cold war (good) and Iran-Contra (not good). The Cold War ended on his watch, and he certainly deserves…

Even in my day (mid ’80s) they were taking away financial aid from any (poor) student who wouldn’t register for the (don’t worry there is no) draft (yet, anyway). Legislation just sitting there? Why haven’t I been reading this on the front page of the Times, or Salon even: He’s right. There is pending legislation…

It looks like our [new] man in Iraq is publicly tied to the CIA, the US intelligence agency that many Arabs “on the street” reportedly believe secretly engineers all of their humiliations.