Month: June 2006

Sunday’s headlines on Antiwar.com pretty much summed up the looming defeat of America’s imperial ambitions, detailing in descending order the series of setbacks that have stunned the architects of our would-be “benevolent global hegemony” and stopped them in their tracks: “A Deadly Week: 16 GIs Killed in Iraq” – Casualties are up, there is no … Continue reading “The Empire at Bay”

One of the most powerful group of voices in opposition to the occupation of Iraq are U.S. soldiers who come home and speak out. In particular, those who become so disillusioned and disgusted by the Iraq occupation that they refuse to return provide a special power that can help to end the nightmare of the … Continue reading “Standing With GIs Who Resist”

A date to remember will be the night of June 20, 2006. That’s the night Congress was fooled for the second time. Remember October 2002 and Iraq? So much has happened since then that it seems like ancient history. Or at least that is what the Bush administration would like to have the public think. … Continue reading “Fool Me Twice”

The history of occupation is not just that of Palestinian suffering and Israeli aggression; it is also the history of its ideology, the history of the fictions the Israeli society fabricates in order to justify its major colonial project which has just entered its 40th year. These fictions do have a history: one can trace … Continue reading “The Ideology of Occupation Revisited”

with Ali Fadhil One and a half years after the November 2004 U.S. military assault on Fallujah, residents tell of ongoing suffering, lack of jobs, little reconstruction and continuing violence. The US military launched Operation Phantom Fury against the city of Fallujah-destroying an estimated 70 percent of the buildings, homes and shops, and killing between … Continue reading “Rebuilding? Not for Fallujah”

UNITED NATIONS – If one were to ask Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena why she chose to report from Afghanistan, Algeria, Somalia and Iraq prior to February 2005, despite the many perils that face reporters in war zones and areas of conflict, her response would probably be similar to the one she gave to journalist Amy … Continue reading “Still Seeking Answers in U.S. Checkpoint Shooting”

The goal of our foreign policy – as advocated by activists across the political spectrum – has long been the substitution of sycophantic regimes for existing “criminal” regimes. What makes a regime criminal? Well, for some of the crazies, the regime is criminal if it commits or allows to be committed what they consider to … Continue reading “Changing ‘Criminal’ Regimes”

Excerpt from Our Generals Don’t Even Know Who We Are, coming from Cumberland House Publishing in October Amar Abdul Rahman was a survivor. He was also a fiercely patriotic Iraqi and thought of himself as an honest man – two things that did not always go together. Rahman had served for over fifteen years in … Continue reading “We Found WMD – and It Was Ours”

JERUSALEM – Mahmoud Zahar says he will not be deterred in bringing suitcases stuffed with millions of dollars in cash into the Gaza Strip when he returns from his travels abroad. "We are going to continue to bring money in through Rafah crossing," he said recently, referring to the Gaza-Egypt border terminal. The Palestinian foreign … Continue reading “Hamas’ Suitcase Economy”

A "great divide" separates the worldviews of Muslims and Westerners, according to the results of a major new survey which suggests that European Muslims, who held the most tolerant views, could be a bridge between the two groups. "Many in the West see Muslims as fanatical, violent, and as lacking tolerance," according to an analysis … Continue reading “Survey Finds ‘Great Divide’ in Muslim and Western Opinions”