Condi Rice – desperately seeking a diplomatic victory of some sort – has capitulated to Poland’s "key demand" that in return for allowing the siting in Poland of ten interceptors of our Ground-based Midcourse Ballistic Missile Defense system...
George Monbiot has a piece in the Guardian this week ("The US missile defense system is the magic pudding that will never run out") explaining the financial motivations behind the US policy of promoting missile defense systems. His observations are fine, so far as...
Updated by 6:20 p.m. EDT, Aug. 22, 2008At least six Iraqis were killed and eight more were wounded in the latest attacks. An unknown number were wounded during a shooting incident in Samarra as well. Also, a final autopsy on a Marine who died last year has ruled that...
The US-Iraqi "status of forces" agreement has been months in the making, and today [Thursday] we are told that it's "almost" ready – but not quite. So what's the problem? Well, there are a few bones of contention between the "liberators" and the "liberated," the...
Who is Randy Scheunemann? He is the principal foreign policy adviser to John McCain and potential successor to Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski as national security adviser to the president of the United States. But Randy Scheunemann has another...
The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism Andrew J. Bacevich Metropolitan Books, 2008 206 pp. If there is one principle that seems to mark neoconservative thought, it is that there are no limits to American power. So long as the American people are...
Updated at 5:45 p.m. EDT, August 21, 2008U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice dropped in on Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki during a secret visit to Baghdad today. As Sadrists demonstrated against her visit, she said that a security pact is close to being...
As a journalist who has reported extensively on the death and destruction that is U.S.- occupied Iraq, perhaps I should be happy about the prosecution of former Marine Corps Sergeant Jose Luis Nazario Jr. Standing accused of killing unarmed four detainees in Fallujah...
Most of the fawning corporate media (FCM) coverage of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's resignation Monday was even more bereft of context than usual. It was as if Musharraf looked out the window and said, "It's a beautiful day. I think I'll resign and go...
The international condemnation of Russian aggression against Georgia – and the concomitant assaults by Abkhazians and South Ossetians against ethnic Georgians within their territories – is in large part appropriate. But the self-righteous posturing coming...
