The Jerusalem Post September 14, 1998 by Steve Rodan BATROVCI, Yugoslavia - The line of cars at this Serbian border town forms early in the morning as travelers head west from the Yugoslav capital of Belgrade toward Croatia and Bosnia. The Yugoslav security officers are thorough, checking each passenger and rummaging through the trunk of every vehicle. Many of the travelers are Moslems, and the adults wait quietly at the terminal as their children play tag between lines. A few years ago, these...
Cold War Allies: The Origins of CIA’s Relationship with Ukrainian Nationalists
By Kevin C. Ruffner, Central Intelligence Agency, 1998
Moscow’s Group of Seven
By Chrystia Freeland, John Thornhill and Andrew Gower, Financial Times, November 1, 1996 Every January, an extraordinary collection of politicians and senior business leaders from around the world descends on the Swiss resort of Davos to ski, eat, drink and make deals. Even by its own standards, however, this year's World Economic Forum was the backdrop for a bargain of unusual significance. Behind the scenes and without the knowledge of other participants, a small group of top Russian...
Public Doesn’t Get Picture With Gulf Satellite Photos
by Jean Heller, St. Petersburg Times [Florida], January 6, 1991 (Washington) Soviet satellite photos of Kuwait taken five weeks after the Iraqi invasion suggest the Bush administration might have exaggerated the scope of Iraq's military threat to Saudi Arabia at the time. The photos are not conclusive proof that the administration overestimated Iraq's buildup along the Saudi border, a buildup that was cited as a justification for the deployment of U.S. troops. But two American satellite...
Middle East Crisis: Secret Offer: Iraq Sent Pullout Deal to US
By Knut Royce, Newsday, August 29, 1990 Iraq has told the White House it will withdraw from Kuwait and allow foreigners to leave, but in return it wants United Nations sanctions lifted, guaranteed access to the Persian Gulf and sole control of an oil field that dips into Kuwait, according to sources involved in the secret offer and memoranda detailing its content. Iraq's message was delivered to National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft on Thursday [August 23] by a former high-ranking U.S....
Briefing on U.S.-Soviet Ministerial
U.S. State Department, February 13, 1990
Iraq Offers Deal to Quit Kuwait, US Rejects It, But Stays ‘Interested’
By Knut Royce, Newsday, January 3, 1991 Iraq has offered to withdraw from Kuwait if the United States pledges not to attack as soldiers are pulled out, if foreign troops leave the region, and if there is agreement on the Palestinian problem and on the banning of all weapons of mass destruction in the region, U.S. officials disclosed yesterday. Although the White House immediately dismissed the proposal as inadequate since it contains preconditions for a pullout, other government officials...
For A New Isolationism
By Murray N. Rothbard This item in the Rothbard Papers bears the notation: "Written April 1959. Sent to National Review." It is with a heavy heart that I enter the lists against the overwhelming majority of my friends and compatriots on the Right; also with a sense of futility in trying to combat that tough anti-Soviet foreign policy to which the Right is perhaps even more dedicated than it is to anti-Socialism. But I must try, if only for the reason that no one else has done so (if, indeed,...
The Party and the Deep Blue Sea
by William F. Buckley, Commonweal, January 25, 1952
Nye Committee Report, 1936
Report of the Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry FINDINGS I. NATURE OF THE MUNITIONS COMPANIES The committee finds, under the head of "the nature of the industrial and commercial organizations engaged in the manufacture of or traffic in arms, ammunitions, or other implements of war" that almost none of the munitions companies in this country confine themselves exclusively to the manufacture of military materials. Great numbers of the largest suppliers to the Army and...
Thomas Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address
March 4, 1801: FRIENDS AND FELLOW-CITIZENS, Called upon to undertake the duties of the first executive office of our country, I avail myself of the presence of that portion of my fellow-citizens which is here assembled to express my grateful thanks for the favor with which they have been pleased to look toward me, to declare a sincere consciousness that the task is above my talents, and that I approach it with those anxious and awful presentiments which the greatness of the charge and the...
