In the eighteen months since central New York oncologist Rafil Dhafir was arrested and charged with violating the U.S. embargo against Iraq, he has been sitting in a Syracuse jail, ignored by most of the national media, as prosecutors continue to add charges...
From the disrupted Iraqi National Conference in Baghdad to the low-key threat of secession from Shi'ite leaders in southern Iraq, the entire country's future may be determined by events in the holy city of Najaf. The National Conference, where 1,300 Iraqi delegates...
UNITED NATIONS - After declining in the post-cold war era of the early 1990s, global military spending is on the rise again – threatening to break the one trillion dollar barrier this year, according to a group of UN-appointed military experts. The 16-member...
Foreign policy scholar Chalmers Johnson, author of The Sorrows of Empire and, Blowback, discusses the frauds and realities surrounding Bush's troop shift proposal. Interviewed for Democracy Now! by Amy Goodman. Read the Transcript Listen to the Interview Watch the...
Amid the plethora of recent books on the rise of an American empire, and the veritable flood of magazine and newspaper articles on this topic, the Caxton Press, of Caldwell, Idaho, has done us all a great service by republishing the very best critique of the imperial...
CAIRO - Brute force used in Egypt to contain terrorism has come at the expense of civil liberties, rights supporters say. "The government crushed the terrorists, but it also crushed the people," says Ahmed Osman, an Egyptian business owner. He claims he...
U.S. President George W. Bush unveiled Monday one of the largest planned troop redeployments since the onset of the Cold War 50 years ago. In a speech to a veterans' group in Ohio, where he faces a tight race to win November's presidential election, Bush said the move...
Are George Bush and Tony Blair building democracy in the Middle East or police states at home? There is no sign of democracy in Iraq. Bush has installed a puppet government backed up by U.S. military force. America's hamhanded occupation has resulted in large civilian...
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BAGHDAD - More than 1,300 delegates from across Iraq gathered here Sunday to elect 100 members for the interim consultative assembly, but angry opponents disrupted the opening sessions and accused the government of undemocratic ways. Instead of debating topics on the...
