From the destroyed Japanese and German cities of World War II to the devastated Korean peninsula of the early 1950s, from the ravaged South Vietnamese countryside of the late 1960s to the "highway of death" on which much of a fleeing Iraqi army was destroyed in the...
Let the Hostilities Begin
Editor's note: This week, Antiwar.com will be on the spot in Hong Kong for the Sixth World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference. This is the second in a series about the issues surrounding the conference, the people involved, and the roles played by the...
Idealism vs. Realism in Egypt
In 1933, a neo-fascist "Young Egypt" movement, modeled on the Nazi Party, was founded. Among its supporters were two young nationalist officers, Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat. When, in 1942, Rommel's Afrika Corps smashed into Egypt and was 100 miles from...
Backtalk, December 14, 2005
Israel, Iran, and the US: Nuclear War, Here We Come This article was interesting and I agree with some of it, although I must take point with parts of it. It was informative until the obvious personal biases started to shine through. To say that Israel would be...
Lieberman’s ‘War Cabinet’
The other day, when Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) suggested that it's time for George W. Bush to form a "war cabinet," everybody knew what he had in mind. Rumors of Donald Rumsfeld's departure from the Department of Defense were (and are) rife, and it was clear...
Making the World Safe for Theocracy
http://www.independent.org/tii/antiwar/e051213.html
Blurring Terrorism and Insurgency in Iraq
With public support for the Iraq war at low ebb, the White House is more eager than ever to conflate Iraq's insurgency with terrorism. But last week, just after President Bush gave yet another speech repeatedly depicting the U.S. war effort in Iraq as a battle against...
Torture Policy Blowback Hits White House
As Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stilettoed her way across Europe last week answering tough questions about Washington's treatment of prisoners in the "global war on terror," 2005 may be remembered as the year "torture" and...
Sunnis Opt for Ballots and Bullets
Leading Sunni clerics and insurgent organizations are unofficially encouraging voting by Sunnis in Thursday's parliamentary elections for a slate of candidates who are calling for a timetable for U.S. troop withdrawal. The decision to support participation in the...
Iraq: State of the Disunion
Scott Horton: All right my friends, welcome to the Weekend Interview Show for December 3, 2005. I'm your host, Scott Horton. My Web site is WeekendInterviewShow.com. My first guest is the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who broke the story of the My Lai massacre,...


