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An Interview with John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr

by Jamie Glazov

Following is an interview with John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, authors of In Denial: Historians, Communism, and Espionage (2003). The interview was conducted by historian Jamie Glazov, the managing editor of frontpagemag.com, where the interview was first published.Gl

Bush Officials Are Flunking Anti-Terrorism 101

by Derek Catsam

It is widely accepted that the Bush administration is nothing if not on message. Since the incursion in Iraq, the administration has shown at least one foolish consistency that is, to say the least, problematic. Whenever the president or his aides and advisors refer to attacks against American soldiers in Iraq, they refer to them as acts of terrorism and to the perpetrators as terrorists.* But by any standard definition of terrorism, the administration is misusing the word. This is n

Column: The Republican Plan to Destroy Medicare

by P. M. Carpenter

Way back before July, 1965, before the socialist monster of Medicare terrorized seniors with guaranteed health care, conservatives told horror stories about it 'round the political campfire. Ronald Reagan - by then a long-time peddler of GE toasters, Borax and right-wing Arizonans - typified the sentiment. Medicare, he admonished, would so encroach on "freedom in this country" we'd be left to wile away our autumn years "telling our children and our children's children

John Buchanan Document

Is It Stupid for Iraqis to Throw Stones at U.S. Tanks?

by Tom Palaima and John Friend

You've seen the photographs, the most current version appearing in newspapers from Fallouja, "the epicenter of anti-American hatred in Iraq." Several boys cluster together. One of them cocks his right arm, his body torqued and ready to throw. In another setting, he could be a Little Leaguer dreaming he is Nomar Garciaparra throwing to first base for the final out against the Yankees. Here, he is throwing a stone. His target is a monstrous American armored personnel c

Why Bush's Israeli Policy Won't Work

by Judith Apter Klinghoffer

"Israel should freeze settlement construction, dismantle unauthorized outposts, end the daily humiliation of the Palestinian people and not prejudice final negotiations with the placement of walls and fences," President Bush said in his otherwise defiant speech in Whitehall. With this sentence George W. Bush reassured his audience that American presidents may come and go but the competition to appease the Arabs with Israeli currency remains in tact.

Column: Bush Is Cutting and Running Because Karl Rove Can Count

by P. M. Carpenter

The president announced last week that Iraqis "need to know that [America is] not going to cut and run." Accompanying that pledge was this: "We believe they have the capacity to run their own country." BushSpeak mavens instantly recognized the abrupt change in policy. America is about to cut and run while Bush knows Iraqis can no more run Iraq than the Reverend Al Sharpton could carry Idaho.

Why the Next Election May Well Be Decided by the Vice Presidential Nominee

by Jonathan Dresner

It's that time again: a presidential election campaign is in full swing and the pundits are building up a pretty good head of steam. Everyone has a theory about presidential elections: it's the economy; it's the amount of money raised; it's the media; it's a 30-year pendulum; it's the issues; it's the candidates' heights or genealogy, etc. Maybe they're right, but there's another thread running through recent elections: Over the last five elections, tickets with near-clone ideological

Israel's Self-Defeating Policy of Oppression

by Avi Shlaim

In 1923 Ze'ev Jabotinsky, the founder of Revisionist Zionism, published an article entitled "On the Iron Wall." He argued that Arab nationalists were bound to oppose the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. Consequently, a voluntary agreement between the two sides was unattainable. The only way to realize the Zionist project was behind an iron wall of Jewish military strength. In other words, the Zionist project could only be implemented unilaterally and by military

Why Africa Is Finally Getting Attention

by Derek Catsam

In recent months Africa, that most overlooked of continents, has been getting some attention from those of us in "The West." Liberia, the West African state colonized by former slaves and in recent decades beset with ruthless dictators and a devastating civil war was for a while a hot spot worthy of American intervention. America and Great Britain are gingerly trying to deal with the increasingly untenable situation in Zimbabwe, where megalomaniacal president-for-life Robert

JFK: 40 Years Later

To help readers keep up with the torrent of articles concerning the fortieth anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination, HNN is collecting links on this page.Sheldon M. Stern, When John Kennedy Stood Alone and Saved Us from Catastrophe (HNN)William Kashatus, Why We Are Still Preoccupied with the Kennedy Might-Have-Beens (HNN)

When John Kennedy Stood Alone and Saved Us from Catastrophe

by Sheldon M. Stern

The declassified tapes of the secret Cuban missile crisis meetings now make it possible for any historian, teacher or interested person to listen to these unique discussions.

Is It Possible to Combat Radical Islamism Without Combating Islam?

by Mehdi Mozaffari

We are not facing a religious war. The issue is not war between Islam on the one side and the rest of the world on the other. Neither is it a war that Islam has launched against Christianity or the Western hemisphere. If we take the Clash of Civilization's thesis, it is a fact that Islam as such does not represent a civilization any more. Islamic civilization extinguished many centuries ago; the remainders of which is merely a religion. Even if we wished to combat Isla

FROM OUR ARCHIVES What Should We Make of the Charge Linking the Bush Family Fortune to Nazism?

by Herbert Parmet

Editor's Note: Over the course of the past month several articles have been published on the Internet and in a handful of print publications that raised questions about the financial ties between the founder of the Bush dynasty and certain Nazi businessmen. We wondered what to make of the story and asked Herbert Parmet to investigate. This is his report.John Buchanan is a free-lance journalist with a mission. He intends to alert the media, and all who will listen, about how Prescott Bush, the progenitor of two presidents, was in league with some of Hitler’s “willing helpers.” Minimized or totally dismissed by the public, the story was revived from its World War II roots by Webster Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin in their George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography (1992) and given a strong additional push in John Loftus’s sensationalist The War Against the Jews (1994).

The New Enola Gay Controversy: Pro and Con

Earlier this month a group of historians--the Committee for a National Discussion of Nuclear History and Current Policy--protested the plan of the Smithsonian to display the Enola Gay in a new exhibit. (See "The New Enola Gay Controversy.") Below is the Smithsonian's response (which was posted on the institution's website) followed by the historians' response. Smi

President Bush, Radical

by Daniel Pipes

"Sixty years of Western nations excusing and accommodating the lack of freedom in the Middle East did nothing to make us safe." This sentence, spoken last week by George W. Bush, is about the most jaw-dropping repudiation of an established bipartisan policy ever made by a US president.Not only does it break with a policy the US government has pursued since first becoming a major player in

John Buchanan Documents

Editor's Note: John Buchanan, who discovered documents linking Prescott Bush to Nazi-era enterprises, showed them, at HNN's request, to Herbert Parmet. Below is a small sample of the documents. Click here to view other documents supplied by Mr. Buchanan.

John Buchanan Document

The Vietnam War Crimes You Never Heard Of

by Nick Turse

On October 19, 2003, the Ohio-based newspaper the Toledo Blade launched a four-day series of investigative reports exposing a string of atrocities by an elite, volunteer, 45-man "Tiger Force" unit of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division over the course of seven months in 1967. The Blade goes on to state that in 1971 the Army began a four and a half year investigation of the

Why We Are Still Preoccupied with the Kennedy Might-Have-Beens

by William C. Kashatus

After forty years, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy continues to ignite countless conspiracy theories, rising from the strange circumstances and seemingly inexplicable actions surrounding it.