If a would-be novelist desperate for money and some kind of recognition put the events surrounding the death of ex-KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko into a fictional narrative, one can only imagine the kind of reviews it would generate. An improbable plot...
Sunday: 13 GIs, 108 Iraqis Killed; Pilot Listed As KIA
Updated at 1:00 p.m. EST, Dec. 4, 2006 On Sunday, U.S. military sources reported on the deaths of nine U.S. servicemembers in separate incidents across Iraq over the weekend; two soldiers were also wounded. Monday morning, authorities added four dead servicemembers to...
Saturday: 187 Iraqis, 1 GI Killed; 83 Iraqis Wounded
Updated at 1:35 a.m. EST, Dec. 4, 2006 The U.S military reported the first American servicemember death for December, and at least 187 Iraqis were also killed, another 83 were wounded, in various events. The most notable incident was a triple bombing of a Shi’te...
Sense and Stubbornness
The meeting in Jordan between President Bush and Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki unless the private discussions were a whole lot more frank and productive than it is reasonable to believe they probably were, based on public statements and background...
Polonium-210, Fiction and Fact
According to Seymour Hersh, in early 2004, John Bolton, who was then the Under-Secretary of State for Arms Control, privately conveyed to International Atomic Energy Agency officials his suspicions that Iran was conducting research at Parchin, the center of...
Is President Bush Sane?
Tens of millions of Americans want President George W. Bush to be impeached for the lies and deceit he used to launch an illegal war and for violating his oath of office to uphold the US Constitution. Millions of other Americans want Bush turned over to the war crimes...
Friday: 68 Iraqis, 1 GI Killed; 164 Iraqis Wounded
Updated at 10:59 p.m. EST, Dec. 1, 2006 As Italian troops left Iraq for good today, 68 Iraqis were killed and another 164 wounded in violent events across the country. U.S. authorities announced the death of a soldier on Thursday, and a prominent Iraqi soccer official...
Indicting Bush
This is the first "indictment" of the president, the vice president, and their colleagues for defrauding us into war in Iraq. I put that "indict" in quotes because what follows, as former federal prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega makes clear in her new book United...
More Troops?
The latest serpent at which a drowning Washington Establishment is grasping is the idea of sending more American troops to Iraq. Would more troops turn the war there in our favor? No. Why not? First, because nothing can. The war in Iraq is irredeemably lost. Neither...
America Held Hostage
I fear my readers must think Ive forgotten about Iraq, since I havent written about it in well over a week. Of course it could hardly have slipped my mind I am, after all, editorial director of a web site known as Antiwar.com. However, I must...


