There Is No One Left to Stop ThemThanks to Paul Craig Roberts (no relation) for his courageous honesty and intellectual and moral clarity. Remembering his Wall Street Journal pieces (why don't they bring him back now?), and in light of my own history of protest, I...
The other day, something quite remarkable happened. Ever since the election, news anchors warned of the "coming assault on Fallujah," the "final clampdown," the "major military offensive" that would put an end to the resistance in that city. Dire warnings were made...
We live in a recurring nightmare. That's the only conclusion one can draw from today's headlines, which, as we draw closer to a confrontation with Iran, bear an eerie resemblance to yesterday's breaking news. It seems like only yesterday that a Middle Eastern exile...
It is not yet Bush's second term. All available U.S. troops are tied down in Iraq by a few thousand lightly armed insurgents. Go-it-alone Bush has isolated America from her allies. And the neocons want to spread their war to Iran. The Bush administration is recycling...
Scott Horton interviews reporter Dahr Jamail live from Baghdad about the real Iraq, a land of rampant murder, kidnapping, and media repression. Interview conducted Nov. 20, 2004. Check out Scott's other interviews with prominent antiwar and libertarian figures....
The NewStandard BAGHDAD - While debate continues in the United States about how best to manage the occupation and nation-building of Iraq, the ideas of Iraqis on the matter of what is to happen in their country have been all but completely muted in the West. Iraqis...
"Flow like the blood of Abraham through the Jews and the Arabs, Broken apart like a woman's heart abused in a marriage." The world is upside down, taking a breath before the next episode. We have four more years of unbridled uncontested Imperial rule,...
Though recent American presidents have pursued a policy of global hegemony, the Bush administration has pursued world dominance with a vengeance. The administration's National Security Strategy, for example, calls for preemptive wars against potential threats to...
When President Bush needed a rationale for invading Iraq, he told Congress that Saddam Hussein posed "a continuing threat to the national security of the United States" by "actively seeking a nuclear weapons capability, and supporting and harboring terrorist...
SANTIAGO - North Korea, Iran, and Iraq, the countries that U.S. President George W. Bush labeled the "axis of evil" in early 2002, are the main unofficial issues being discussed at the 12th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, which opened...
