Month: March 2006

Foreign policy, legal, and human rights authorities are raising serious questions about the credibility of the U.S. State Department’s annual report on human rights, released last week. Noah S. Leavitt, an attorney who has worked with the International Law Commission of the United Nations in Geneva and the International Court of Justice in The Hague, … Continue reading “US Abuses, Sense of Irony Missing in Rights Report”

http://www.independent.org/tii/antiwar/e060314.html

With Isam Rashid BAGHDAD – The unrest in the wake of Iraq’s failure to form a new government is making life particularly difficult for women. “There is chaos in Iraq now, and there is danger everywhere,” 27-year-old Nora Ahmed told IPS. The situation has gone “from bad to worse, and only when the occupation ends, … Continue reading “In Iraq, No Day
Is a Woman’s Day”

March 20 is the third anniversary of the Bush regime’s invasion of Iraq. U.S. military casualties to date are approximately 20,000 killed, wounded, maimed, and disabled. Iraqi civilian casualties number in the tens of thousands. Iraq’s infrastructure is in ruins. Tens of thousands of homes have been destroyed. Fallujah, a city of 300,000 people, had … Continue reading “Why Did Bush Destroy Iraq?”

As a signatory to the Treaty on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Iran is required to subject all “source or special fissionable material” being produced, processed, or used in any principal facility to verification – “in accordance with the Statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency” – that none is diverted from peaceful uses, to use … Continue reading “The IAEA Pleads Incompetence”

And so their great scheme, the subjugation and democratization of Iraq, has failed; and all that is left for them is the fate due all fanatical ideologues – to either desert the sinking ship like rats, or else fight among each other like scorpions. They have sown the dragon’s teeth; and the stone having been … Continue reading “A Requiem for Gonzoconservatism”

In the first of a two-part dispatch, “Disintegrating Iraqi Sovereignty,” Michael Schwartz explored Iraq’s missing “sovereignty.” Most of us take sovereignty for granted, but under the pressure of invasion, occupation, destruction, and arrogance as well as increasing ethnic/religious strife and rippling chaos, it has proved ever harder to bring to bear in Iraq. Schwartz explored … Continue reading “The Campaign to Pacify Sunni Iraq”

Slobodan Milosevic is characterized in the obituaries as the "Butcher of the Balkans." If that is the story you want to read about, please go to almost any other media outlet and read it again and again. Some are now suggesting that death is Milosevic’s final revenge, that he "ended up cheating history" by dying … Continue reading “Rest Easy, Bill Clinton: Milosevic Can’t Talk Anymore”

Slobodan Milosevic is characterized in the obituaries as the "Butcher of the Balkans." If that is the story you want to read about, please go to almost any other media outlet and read it again and again. Some are now suggesting that death is Milosevic’s final revenge, that he "ended up cheating history" by dying … Continue reading “Rest Easy, Bill Clinton: Milosevic Can’t Talk Anymore”

On March 11, the former Serbian leader and president of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic, died in his prison cell at The Hague, where he had been on trial for four years and one month for war crimes and genocide. The Serbian Socialist Party leader Zoran Andjelkovic responded to the news of Milosevic’s death with the following … Continue reading “Was Serbia a Practice Run for Iraq?”