By Scott Horton Antiwar.com April 06, 2005 Chalmers Johnson, author of Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire and Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic, and the guest on my March 26 radio show [stream] [download mp3], spent decades as what he now calls a 'spear-carrier for empire.' According to Mr. Johnson, we have '[t]o a certain extent ”¦ been at war since 1940.' When the U.S. government told him that our military dominance of much of the planet...

By Scott Horton Antiwar.com April 02, 2005 George Bush’s nomination of John Bolton to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has provoked a storm of controversy, setting off cries of 'loose cannon!' and 'unilateralism!' from the more internationalist of the American interventionists. Currently undersecretary of state for arms control and international security affairs, Bolton is a figure whose study provides a telling illustration of the current debate within the foreign policy...

By Scott Horton Antiwar.com March 09, 2005 What if the government arrested you on terrorism charges? What if your lawyer was afraid to zealously defend you (as required by the Model Rules)? What if your lawyer was so afraid, he wouldn’t even tell you that he wasn’t able to zealously defend you? This is the direction American criminal law is taking, according to defense attorney and civil rights activist Elaine Cassel, author of The War on Civil Liberties: How Bush and Ashcroft Have Dismantled...