Colin Powell

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  • Numbers don't lie -- but they can be hidden

    What do you do when statistics show that you're losing ground in the war on terrorism? Delete the statistics.
    By Tim Grieve April 19, 2005

  • The empire strikes back

    John Bolton, a man who doesn't believe in diplomacy and thinks the U.S. should be the only permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, gets yet another chance to wield his stick.
    By Sidney Blumenthal March 10, 2005

  • Like father, like son

    As Colin and Michael Powell exit the Bush administration, they leave legacies of failure.
    By Eric Boehlert January 24, 2005

  • An unchanged landscape in Washington

    The administration's confused and negligent policy toward human rights abuses in Indonesia is not likely to change in the wake of the tsunami.
    By Sidney Blumenthal January 6, 2005

  • Right Hook

    Conservatives cheer Condi, scratch their heads over Colin, and see bright days ahead for Bush's faith-based team. Plus: Rich Lowry cackles with glee over the prospect of more blacks voting Republican.
    By Mark Follman November 17, 2004

  • First buddy

    Condi Rice has rarely used her close relationship with Bush to offer dissent or hold back administration hard-liners. That doesn't bode well for her tenure at State.
    By Dennis Jett November 17, 2004

  • Bush's night of the long knives

    The fall of Powell and the rise of Rice reveal the true face of this strange, Soviet administration, where bureaucratic fear and blind loyalty reign supreme.
    By Sidney Blumenthal November 17, 2004

  • The good soldier takes his leave

    Policy experts and former U.S. diplomats weigh in on Colin Powell's resignation.
    Compiled by Jeff Horwitz November 16, 2004

  • The State Department's extreme makeover

    A veteran Foreign Service officer warns that when Colin Powell departs in a second Bush term, America will lose its last bulwark against the radical ideologues who are planning more Iraqs.
    By Anonymous October 4, 2004

  • Absolute faith

    The Senate report on intelligence, like "The Da Vinci Code," requires some effort to crack, but what it reveals is a president who makes no allowance for dissenting views.
    By Sidney Blumenthal July 15, 2004

  • A call to conscience

    The diplomat who quit over Nixon's invasion of Cambodia asks Americans on the front lines of foreign service to resign from the "worst regime by far in the history of the republic."
    By Roger Morris May 21, 2004

  • What the 9/11 commission won't ask

    The inside story of how Condoleezza Rice destroyed the Middle East peace process.
    By Sidney Blumenthal April 8, 2004

  • Departure of a native son

    Longtime activist Randall Robinson tells his story of the U.S. "coup" against Haiti's Aristide, calls Colin Powell the most dangerous black man alive, and explains why he quit the U.S. for St. Kitts.
    By Amy Kroin April 6, 2004

  • Searching for Colin Powell

    The real Powell Doctrine is self-interest as national interest.
    By Dennis Jett March 26, 2004

  • Condoleezza Rice's bad week

    Bush's national security advisor dodged the 9/11 commission, but she can't evade its judgment.
    By Martin Sieff March 25, 2004

  • A betrayal of democracy

    The former National Security Council chief on Latin America says that Bush has created a disaster in Haiti.
    By Arturo Valenzuela March 10, 2004

  • Another crude slur

    With a campaign of distortion and lies, the right-wing smear machine is trying to impugn the military honor of John Kerry.
    By Joe Conason March 6, 2004

  • Weapons of mass dissembling

    Arms inspector David Kay is conveniently blaming his failure to find WMD on U.S. intelligence, but the real villains are the Bush neocons who cooked data and twisted arms to get the "evidence" they needed for war.
    By Sidney Blumenthal February 5, 2004

  • U.S. intelligence under Bush is a "mess"

    The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee calls for reform of the system -- and wants answers from the White House about Iraq's missing WMD.
    January 16, 2004

  • Colin Powell's "Fog of War"

    Colin Powell is more isolated than ever in the Bush administration -- and almost certainly preparing for his retirement.
    By Sidney Blumenthal January 8, 2004

  • "Welcome to Vietnam, Mr. President"

    As White House denials grow insistent, some of the sharpest thinkers of the Vietnam generation see stark parallels with the war in Iraq.
    By Jessica Kowal November 17, 2003

  • War is peace!

    How the Bush administration's propaganda machine -- with the help of Roger Ailes' Fox News -- distorts the truth in the Middle East and at home.
    By Jennifer L. Buckendorff September 30, 2003

  • When security becomes apartheid

    To stop suicide bombers, Israel is erecting a 26-foot-high barrier to wall off the occupied territories. But the wall is causing daily hardship -- and annoying President Bush.
    By Ferry Biedermann July 26, 2003

  • Bush's biggest whopper

    The president's 16-word stretcher about African uranium was nothing compared to his lie about the links between Osama and Saddam.
    By David Corn July 24, 2003

  • Yellowcake-gate

    What price will President Bush have to pay for his 16-word scam?
    By Arianna Huffington July 16, 2003
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