Six months in jail – for a wanton murder. That's fair, now isn't it? It is if the victim is Iraqi, and the murderers are four American soldiers – that's what a military court recently decided, and it's a verdict that tells us everything we need to know about...
Waste of War Still Killing in Afghanistan
NEW YORK - For the first time, many more civilians are being killed and maimed in Afghanistan by dud munitions than by landmines, which were more or less outlawed in 1999 but linger around the world as the wreckage of earlier wars. A study published in Friday's...
ElBaradei 1, Bolton 0
Mohamed ElBaradei will serve a third term as director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Since abject failure appears to be among the criteria for being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, look for John Bolton – currently...
Murray N. Rothbard on States, War, and Peace: Part I
This timeless article first appeared on June 12, 2000 The sheer amount of writing done by the late Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995) continues to astound. The quality of his work accounts for the impact it has had, and the attention it now draws, but its volume cannot...
US Military Families Bring Help
Amman - Families of some U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq plan a strong protest to mark the second anniversary of the invasion. The group 'Military Families Speak Out' will hold a demonstration in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in the United States March 19. As of now...
Gonzales at Justice and Lynndie in the Trash
Last week the Bush administration was publicly rebuked by Richard Lugar for a reported U.S. plan to keep some suspected terrorists imprisoned for a lifetime even if the government lacks evidence to charge them. Lugar said, "It's a bad idea. So we ought to get over it...
Iraq: The Devastation
Measure Iraq any way you want and it adds up to disaster: Less electricity is now being delivered than in the Saddam Hussein years; infant malnourishment has, according to a Norwegian study, doubled in the same time period ("It's on the level of some African...
No Peace in Palestine
There will be no peace in Palestine. Don't be fooled by statements of politicians and by the press's careful avoidance of reporting the real facts of the situation. The bulk of the Jewish settlements – around 200,000 people – are in the West Bank. The...
ElBaradei and North Korea
According to various reporters, last week Mohammed ElBaradei – Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency – "urged North Korea to promptly resume multilateral negotiations on dismantling its nuclear weapons programs." He didn't....
Issues for East Asia: A Sinocentric View
Yu Bin's recent article for Asia Times Online is a very Sinocentric view of the growing pains East Asia will face as the region grows increasingly more influential and substantially richer. Yu Bin goes into three major problems: China's relationship with its own poor...