30 September 2009 | Uncategorized | Mel Frykberg
EAST JERUSALEM – Palestinian politicians and Israeli political analysts are warning of a third Palestinian Intifadah following serious rioting in East Jerusalem last Sunday. Clashes broke out between Palestinians protesters and Israeli security forces after a group of extremist Israeli settlers, escorted by Israeli soldiers and police, tried to enter the compound of Al-Aqsa Mosque, [...]
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30 September 2009 | Uncategorized | Conn Hallinan
Conn Hallinan: was the bombing in Kunduz an election ploy?
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30 September 2009 | Uncategorized | Andy Worthington
Andy Worthington on the latest torture shocker
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30 September 2009 | Uncategorized | Philip Giraldi
Philip Giraldi says the Iran hysteria is familiar
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30 September 2009 | Uncategorized | David Bromwich
David Bromwich on war’s columnist
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30 September 2009 | Uncategorized | John Pilger
John Pilger on the Iran-war drums getting louder
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30 September 2009 | Uncategorized | Margaret Griffis
Updated at 4:25 p.m. EDT, Sept. 30, 2009
The Red Cross warned that considering a death toll of 500 Iraqis every month as being “normal” was overly complacent. Meanwhile, at least seven Iraqis were killed and another 10 were wounded in today’s attacks. Back in the U.S., Vice President Joseph Biden welcomed home his son who spent the last year deployed to Iraq. Also, a U.S. Marine apologized for killing an unarmed Iraqi during the 2004 battle for Fallujah.
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29 September 2009 | Uncategorized | Jeff Huber
There is no such thing a "victory" in the kinds of wars we’re fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. The best one can hope for in these types of conflicts – counterinsurgency efforts in far-flung corners of the globe with fuzzy objectives and vague necessity – is to not be seen as having "lost." For that [...]
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29 September 2009 | Uncategorized | Ivan Eland
Empathy is a term that connotes the touchy-feely notion of getting in touch with someone else’s feelings or perspective. That’s what psychotherapists and social workers do. It obviously has no place in the hard-knocks world of foreign affairs and national security. Or does it? In world history, the best generals are experts in empathy. They [...]
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29 September 2009 | Uncategorized | Justin Raimondo
Ron Rosenbaum, journalist (the New York Observer, Slate.com), author, and one of the few liberals to sign on to the ill-fated Pajamas Media fiasco, is damned mad: “Will all the pundits who relied on the discredited 2007 NIE on Iran now admit that they were wrong? That they bought into and kept citing, without any [...]
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