Perhaps the one thing you can be reasonably sure of is that we're not getting the whole story about the current troubles in Iraq (even by reading almost everything, from all the different sources made available to you on Antiwar.com). This is not necessarily because...
With warfare escalating in Iraq, syndicated columnist George Will has just explained the logic of the occupation. "In the war against the militias," he wrote, "every door American troops crash through, every civilian bystander shot – there will be...
The complete absence of Iraq's fabled "weapons of mass destruction," the "flawed" intelligence that supposedly fooled U.S. government officials into believing their own propaganda, the lies and skullduggery that are now being exposed, have raised the question: well,...
The recent bombing of a mosque in Fallujah meant fiery deaths for about forty Iraqis, but if the hawks get their way, it will be only the beginning of the deadly reprisals waged by the U.S. against that town in retaliation for the massacre of Americans there last...
One thing that can be said about U.S. neo-conservatives is they do not lack for ambition. "We need an Islamic reformation," Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz confided on the eve of the US invasion of Iraq last year, "and I think there is real hope for one."...
I have watched with heavy heart and mounting dread as the ever-precarious battle to bring security to post-war Iraq has taken a desperate turn for the worse in recent days and hours. Along with so many Americans, I have been shaken by the hellish carnage in Fallujah...
After the mid-March pogrom against Serbs in Kosovo, which clearly aimed at their physical destruction, Empire's propaganda machine went into full spin trying to cover up the extent of the occupiers' failure to prevent such aggression. Albanian partisans in the West...
Presstitutes' Darling Nebojsa Malic brought up an excellent point with regard to conflict of interest. The board of ICG is made up of George Soros who is trying to destroy regimes in eastern Europe so that he can economically exploit and loot them. Doesn't he have a...
With Saddam captured, and the U.S. squaring off against a faceless enemy in Iraq, it was necessary to create a new demon figure, and the occupiers couldn't have done a better job of it if they had gone to Central Casting: Moqtada al-Sadr is a radical, he's got a big...
Six years ago, in February 1998, I traveled to Iraq with a British Voices in the Wilderness team. The US was threatening another massive bombardment. We decided to go to Fallujah in hopes of better understanding the perspective of people whose marketplace had been...
