A Good Week For The ‘Radical Entente’: Outlaw Nations Likely Emboldened By Ineffectual Western Responses
This was a red letter week for "international outlaws" and rogue nations bent on illegally acquiring weapons of mass destruction,...
Middle East
Second thoughts about defense
One of the most important news stories in the past week - properly given front-page, "above-the-fold" treatment by The Washington...
Wake-Up Call From Saddam: Turkey Is A Friend In Need, A Friend Indeed
If nothing else, the renewed outbreak of hostilities with Saddam Hussein's Iraq is an important reminder of the volatility of...
Overdue, Underdone: What the Coalition Air Strikes on Iraq Should Have Been About, But Weren’t
(Washington, D.C.): For the second time in as many years, U.S. and coalition forces in the Persian Gulf have been...
STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: SYRIA’S STRATEGIC ALLIANCE WITH IRAN REVEALS BOTH NATIONS’ TRUE MIDEASTINTENTIONS
(Washington, D.C.): Iran's recent, controversial deal to buy three advanced diesel submarines from Russia is but the latest evidence of...
A GOOD QUESTION FOR THE VOTERS:
‘WHO DO YOU TRUST?’
(Washington, D.C.): Bush Administration officials attempting to manage the unravelling Iraqgate cover-up evidently are taking their cue from the Titanic's...
‘SITUATION NORMAL(IZED)’: WILL BUSH-BAKER GET AWAY WITH PROPPING UP ONE LAST TYRANNICAL REGIME?
(Washington, D.C.): The Bush Administration may be about to lose its mandate to govern. If so, one factor almost certainly...
90/90 HINDSIGHT’: IS PRESIDENT BUSH BEING BLINDSIDED ON IRAQGATE — OR IS HE PART OF THE COVERUP?
(Washington, D.C.): On 10 October 1992, National Security Advisor to the President Brent Scowcroft published a carefully-crafted -- and cynically...
LIES, DAMNABLE LIES AND SCOWCROFT’S ‘FACTS’– A ‘BAKER‘S DOZEN’ CONTRIBUTE TO IRAQGATE COVERUP
(Washington, D.C.): On the eve of the first presidential debate, National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft published a wrathful defense of...
THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION CONTINUES TO SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL LOANS TO SYRIA
(Washington, D.C.): On 9 July 1992, the Center for Security Policy revealed that the Bush Administration has been playing fast...
WILL LEBANON EVER ESCAPE SYRIAN IMPERIALISM? DON’T HOLD YOUR BREATH!
(Washington, D.C.): According to the accord signed in Taif, Saudi Arabia in September 1989, Syria was to have completed by...
REP. GEJDENSON IS GOOD AT POINTING OUT OTHERS’ ROLE IN ARMING SADDAM, BUT BETTER AT CONCEALING HIS OWN
(Washington, D.C.): Rep. Sam Gejdenson (D-CT) is giving the term "smoke and mirrors" new meaning. In a press conference on...
‘RECKLESS ABANDON(MENT)’: WILL APPROPRIATORS ENDANGER VITAL ALLIANCE TIES WITH TURKEY BY ENDING MILITARY AID?
(Washington, D.C.): Congressional appropriators are being tempted to make the classic penny-wise-pound-foolish decision: Tomorrow afternoon, the Senate Appropriations Committee will...
THE IRAQ SYNDROME: BUSH ADMINISTRATION IGNORES, FACILITATES SYRIAN ARMS BUILD-UP
(Washington, D.C.): Amidst expectations that Syrian-Israeli negotiations may soon produce a separate peace in one of the Middle East's most...
‘GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER’: BUSH-BAKER ENABLE ASSAD TO GO ON SPONSORING INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM
(Washington, D.C.): A central tenet in President Bush's reelection campaign is his contention that he has demonstrated an ability to...
GETTING SADDAM: THE MOST IMPORTANT FOREIGN POLICY INITIATIVE IN THE ‘STATE OF THE UNION’ ADDRESS?
(Washington, D.C.): In the transparent White House effort to manipulate and inflate public expectations about President Bush's State of the...