Updated at 11:46 p.m. EDT, June 4, 2008At least 70 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 124 more were injured in the latest violence. The deadliest bombing in months bombing occurred in the capital, while two mass graves were found. Also, gunmen killed three American...
Will Obama Stand Up to the War Party?
If you want to know what the future holds in store, just take a look at what John McCain said recently to the AIPAC conference: "Rather than sitting down unconditionally with the Iranian president or supreme leader in the hope that we can talk sense into them, we must...
Winter Soldiers Hit the Streets
SEATTLE - In a clear change of strategy to energize public antiwar sentiment, Iraq veterans led a determined demonstration of hundreds through the streets of downtown Seattle last Saturday, following regional Winter Soldier hearings at the Seattle Town Hall. A larger...
‘Atrocity-Producing Situations’
American soldiers have long scrawled messages to the enemy on the bombs they were about to deliver. In the The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes reminds us, for instance, that "Little Boy," the bomb that would inaugurate a new age over Hiroshima, "was...
Australia Bolts Iraq Over Bush’s Lies
Matilda is waltzing home from Iraq, and the Australians are lucky but chastened. Lucky for having lost not one soldier in combat of the 2,000 sent to join the "coalition of the willing" attack on Iraq in March 2003. Chastened because Australian Prime...
Tuesday: 1 US Soldier, 18 Iraqis Killed; 34 Iraqis Wounded
Updated at 7:50 p.m. EDT, June 3, 2008At least 18 Iraqis were killed and 34 more were wounded in the latest violence. One U.S. soldier died from non-combat-related causes this morning. Also, Iran resumed shelling suspected Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) rebel...
McCain Vows to Stay the Course in Middle East
In a major address on Middle East policy Monday, Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican candidate for president, pledged to maintain the Bush administration's hard line against Iran and expressed strong skepticism about the ability of the current Palestinian...
Last Call at Gitmo
Like alcoholics queuing up for drinks at closing time, the U.S. government is pressing charges against prisoners at Guantánamo at a frantic rate, anxious to be seen as validating the chronic lawlessness of the last seven years before November's presidential...
Iraq Vets: ‘Enough Is Enough. It’s Time to Get Out’
SEATTLE - Dozens of veterans from the U.S. occupation of Iraq converged in this West Coast city over the weekend to share stories of atrocities being committed daily in Iraq, in a continuation of the Winter Soldier hearings held in Silver Spring, Md., in March. At the...
How Cheney Outfoxed His Foes on Iran and EFPs
For many months, the propaganda line that explosively formed projectiles (EFPs) that could penetrate U.S. armored vehicles were coming straight from Iran has been embraced publicly by the entire George W. Bush administration. But when that argument was proposed...