The Chalabi Follies

Ahmed Chalabi wrote his doctoral dissertation on the intricacies of Knot Theory – and surely he has tied his neoconservative patrons in a knot of Gordian proportions as they take up the cudgels in his defense. "You can piss on Chalabi," said George W. Bush to...

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Outside the Gates of Abu Ghraib

With the recent court-martial trial of one of the soldiers complicit in the widespread torturing of Iraqis in Abu Ghraib prison having come and gone, Iraqis see the newest promise made by the U.S. – to clean up their act regarding the treatment of detained Iraqis...

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American Shame in Rafah

The current Israeli campaign in Rafah, which has already killed at least 40 people, and which the U.N. Security Council has condemned in a 14-0 vote (with the United States abstaining), is merely the continuation of a decades-long program of ethnic cleansing that...

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Gulf War III

American Likudniks have been "examining" the consequences to our national security of an Israeli preemptive strike against certain Iranian facilities and programs, all now subject to an International Atomic Energy Agency Safeguards Agreement. Whenever President Bush...

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The Seeds Have Been Sown

"Iraq is sitting atop a volcano," says a school teacher in Haditha. "The Americans are aggravating people here, trying to get a reaction. Everyone in this province is against them now!" Most Iraqis I speak with nowadays are seething with rage toward the occupiers of...

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A Shi’ite International?

There was more heavy fighting in Karbala early on Friday, after which the city fell eerily quiet. By Friday night into early Saturday morning, Mahdi Army militiamen had mysteriously ceased fighting, and the U.S. had withdrawn from sites like Mukhayyam mosque near the...

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Comment from Germany Thank you for this website. The current Bush administration is not only responsible for torturing and massacring thousands of innocent people, but also for destroying the reputation of the USA in the world. People here in Europe are beginning to...

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