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Watching the new movie ”Thirteen Days,” I got really scared. What frightened me was not just the vivid memories from my childhood of October 1962, when we all huddled around the TV and wondered if the world would be blown up. What really terrified me was the thought of George W. Bush rather than John […]

“If the U.S. prisoners downed in the spy plane in China had been treated half as badly as we were, the United States would have declared war,” says, Eduardo Bhatia, the soft-spoken 2000 candidate for the mayoralty of San Juan, who was one of 185 persons arrested by Marine Corps MP’s for civil disobedience last […]

On September 11, terrorists pierced the very heart of global financial and military power, leaving in their wake a mixture of glass, concrete, steel, and blood. Thousands of innocent victims from all major faiths and ethnic origins were murdered in a human tragedy on a scale never before seen on U.S. soil. Confronted with […]

Early next month, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld‘s Adviser on Net Assessment will produce a report that will be the working blueprint for the Pentagon’s future. Given that the Adviser — Andrew Marshall — is a futurist fascinated with the most advanced technologies, observers expect the report to be chock full of recommendations emphasizing an […]

Bernard Hopkins’ recent 12th round knockout of Puerto Rican boxing champion Tito Trinidad for the middleweight title was something of a metaphor for the effects of September 11 on the Vieques movement. Perhaps more than metaphor: Trinidad, a champion of the Vieques movement, wrote Paz (“Peace”) on his armbands, while Hopkins sported a U.S. flag […]

It was the summer of 1985 and John Lantigua, then The Washington Post‘s Nicaragua stringer, discovered he had a new nickname, at least among American right-wingers: “Johnny Sandinista.” For many senior politicos in the Reagan Administration, Nicaragua was a black and white issue. If you weren’t pro-Contra and anti-Sandinista, you were a dupe of two […]

USA Today This week, as Congress reconvenes, President Clinton will be coming under increasing criticism for the inadequacies of NATO’s bombing campaign. But the favored alternative – a ground war – is something for which we are wholly unprepared. It’s not just a matter of military tactics; it’s a question of national will. There are […]

Following the dramatic failure of the proposed national missile defense system’s recent test, the Senate rejected a proposal that would prohibit the Pentagon from deploying the system until it could prove it would work. Now that the Clinton Administration has the go-ahead, an impassioned debate has erupted over whether it should build the defense system […]

The Bush Administration had a lot weighing on this month’s test of the missile defense shield. Two previous tests failed. Furthermore, Democrats — not to mention the Russians and Chinese — are dead set against the shield, with its $100 billion plus price tag. The Bush Administration couldn’t take its chances on another screw up […]