childersal wrote:
] This article really makes you think.

Worth a read as there is a good overview of America's imperialist history, but I'm not sure I agree with the final conclusions that Hitchens draws. He's a smart guy, that's for sure, but I think his break with some of the other left/Progressives over Sept. 11th might have left him a bit bitter. Certainly he appears to have moved towards a more centrist point of view. He used to be (still is?) a regular contributor to The Nation a decidedly Progressive periodical.

Imperialism - Superpower dominance, malignant and benign -- Christopher Hitchens

Dagmar is going to love this.

Aliens are Real

Tony Blair: It is unprecedented for the Government to publish this kind of document. But in light of the debate about Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), I wanted to share with the British public the reasons why I believe this issue to be a current and serious threat to the UK national interest.

British Dossier on Iraq's WMD

"Instead, the air is thick with the views of the likes of Charles Krauthammer, of the Washington Post. "Unilateralism is the key to our success," he wrote, in describing the world of the next fifty years: a world without protection from nuclear attack or environmental damage for the citizens of any country except the United States; a world where "democracy" means nothing if its benefits are at odds with American "interests"; a world in which to express dissent against these "interests" brands one a terrorist and justifies surveillance and repression."

USA - The leading Rogue State.