Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a piece of work, an anti-Semitic demagogue with a penchant for the unpredictable. The Iranians can do better, declares U.S. President George W. Bush. As President Bush put it: "My message to the Iranian people is: You can do...
Christopher Hitchens "had a perfectly swell time" in "Iraqi Kurdistan," as he calls it, where he spent the Christmas holidays, and he tells us all about it in the current issue of Vanity Fair. He has always been sympathetic to the Kurdish cause, and to say that...
"Just because we volunteered, doesn't mean we volunteered to throw our lives away for nothing. You can only push human beings so far," says Marc Train, a 19-year old soldier from America's heartland. "Soldiers are going to Iraq multiple times. The...
Several days after the mass killings at Virginia Tech, grisly stories about the tragedy still dominate front pages and cable television. News of carnage on a vastly larger scale – the war in Iraq – ebbs and flows. The overall coverage of lethal violence, at...
Updated at 7:15 p.m. EDT, April 19, 2007Following one of the deadliest days there since the U.S. invasion, violence continued but as a slower pace. Overall, 82 Iraqis were killed or found dead and another 70 were wounded in various attacks. Three U.S. and two British...
DAMASCUS - The massive influx of Iraqi refugees into Syria has brought rising prices and overcrowding, but most Syrians seem to have accepted more than a million of the refugees happily enough. "I'm looking at it this way," 35-year-old Amri Alaby told IPS....
Following the defeat of efforts by Washington and London to ram the Ahtisaari plan through the UN Security Council earlier this month, the Empire seems to have pulled out all the stops in a campaign to achieve the independence of Kosovo, the Albanian-dominated,...
Monday's paper gave us a small reason to be happy. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met with Palestinian Chairman Mahmoud Abbas for the second time in just a few weeks. Reporting the meeting – described by Palestinian sources as "fruitless" – Ha'aretz...
Updated at 11:29 p.m. EDT, April 18, 2007A series of coordinated bomb attacks shook Baghdad hours after Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said that security would be in Iraqi hands by the end of the year. Overall, at least 312 people were killed and 302 wounded throughout...
DAMASCUS - Syria's decision to accept Iraqi refugees streaming into the country has brought the government of President Bashar Assad more power within Syria and the region, but at significant cost. The ministry of interior in Syria estimates the total number of Iraqi...
