P> Updated at 12:48 a.m. EST, Apr. 1, 2007After several days of increased violence, the attacks have tapered off somewhat. However, 67 Iraqis were killed or found dead today and another 96 were injured. The Iraqi government release new figures on Tuesday’s Tal...
Far be it from me to defend elected Democrats in most circumstances. However, a certain amount of criticism of Democrats in Congress for not acting strongly enough to end President Bush’s misbegotten war in Iraq suggests an inordinate impatience that reflects a...
According to Russian intelligence, U.S.-allied armed forces in and around the Persian Gulf are being readied for an attack on Iran in the very near future. However, the pretext for the attack may not be related to the increasingly frantic, but totally unsubstantiated,...
MEMORANDUM FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) SUBJECT: Brinkmanship Unwise in Uncharted Waters The frenzy in America's corporate media over Iran's detainment of 15 British marines who may, or may not, have violated Iranian-claimed territorial...
Updated at 12:45 a.m. EST, Mar. 31, 2008At least 78 Iraqis were reported killed or found dead today and another 58 Iraqis were injured. The numbers include updates of yesterday’s casualty tally from a Baghdad marketplace bombing and a large number of dumped...
Ever since September 2001, the president's central operative image has been "war" – specifically, his "global war on terror" (promptly transformed into the grim acronym GWOT). With it went the fantasy that we had been plunged into the modern equivalent of World...
Our "free" media is so eager to accept the official British explanation of why their sailors/Marines wound up in Iranian custody that most Western "news" accounts are ignoring all evidence to the contrary, such as the trenchant observation of former British diplomat...
Americans opposed to war are a distinct minority. If the Iraq War were going well, most Americans would support it. Yet the Iraq venture has been such a disaster for America that peace groups have a chance to expose the pro-war interests in the nation and advance an...
"I joined the Army to go to war, and now I'm fighting to get out," says Pfc. Ryan Follan, laughing nervously. He quickly becomes serious. "Some of the causes are good, but I don't think the war is for the right reasons." Follan laughs again, and...
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) may be committed to war – in Iraq, against North Korea, and most everywhere else. But he occasionally speaks the truth, if only inadvertently. Like when he announced his presidential candidacy on the David Letterman show, observing that...
