In a last-ditch, all-out effort to pave the way for war with Iran, Israel's lobby in the U.S. has inaugurated a new front group: United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI). What, "another" neocon front group – why is this important? With Richard Holbrooke, Obama's most...
Trojan Horse
Since the late 1990s, federal agents have reported systemic communications security breaches at the Department of Justice, FBI, DEA, the State Department, and the White House. Several of the alleged breaches, these agents say, can be traced to two hi-tech...
Thursday: 1 US Soldier, 15 Iraqis Killed; 24 Iraqis Wounded
Updated at 5:30 p.m. EDT, Sept. 25, 2008At least 15 Iraqis were killed and 24 more were wounded in the latest attacks. The bombings continued in Baghdad, while a suicide bomber killed a U.S. soldier in Baquba. Also, a Saudi national was killed during a raid in Mosul....
Bipartisan Group Urges Deeper Diplomacy with Muslim World
In an implicit indictment of President George W. Bush's "global war on terror" and the hawkish pronouncements by Republican candidate John McCain, a bipartisan group of nearly three dozen U.S. leaders called here Wednesday for Bush's successor to place much...
Neocons, Ex-Israeli Diplomats Push Islamophobic Video
with Eli Clifton and Jim Lobe A group of hard-line US neoconservatives and former Israeli diplomats, among others, are behind the mass distribution, ahead of the November US presidential election, of a controversial DVD that critics have denounced as Islamophobic. The...
Ahmadinejad Open to US Talks, Denounces Threats
At a press conference following his speech to the UN General Assembly Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he would welcome discussions with the US presidential candidates, but added that "the condition is that our meeting should be open so that...
Biden’s Foreign Policy ‘Experience’
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's choice of Joseph Biden as his running mate has drawn sharp criticism from many Democrats as a result of the Delaware senator's support for the US invasion of Iraq, his flagrantly false claims about the alleged Iraqi...
Wednesday: 1 US Soldier, 43 Iraqis Killed: 35 Iraqis Wounded
Updated at 11:31 p.m. EDT, Sept. 24, 2008At least 43 Iraqis were killed and another 34 were wounded in the latest violence. Among them were 35 security personnel who were killed in a bold attack in Diyala province. Also, the Department of Defense reported that a U.S....
Palestinian Factions Silence Opposition Media
GAZA CITY - So much is missing as you walk down the street along the shops of Gaza: food and medicines kept out by the blockade enforced by Israel, but also newspapers, once a part of the street landscape. Al-Hayat-al-Jadeeda and al-Ayyam, two newspapers loyal to...
Decline and Fall
As I read the latest headlines reporting the ongoing implosion of the domestic economy and the ominous signs of a pending explosion in the international sphere, I watch a leaf fall from a very great height. The redwoods out here are like the pillars of a temple built...