Not Another War, Mr. President!

Nothing, but nothing, is going to get in the way of this administration's path to war with Iran. This was brought home in a dramatic way when the Brazilians and the Turks announced Iran had agreed to implement the nuclear exchange deal proposed by the US some seven...

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Drones and Democracy

ISLAMABAD - On May 12, the day after a U.S. drone strike killed 24 people in Pakistan's North Waziristan, two men from the area agreed to tell us their perspective as eyewitnesses of previous drone strikes. One is a journalist, Safdar Dawar, general secretary of the...

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Momentum Builds to Ratify Land-Mine Treaty

More than two-thirds of U.S. senators have signed a letter calling on President Barack Obama to develop a plan to join a 17-year-old international treaty banning the production, transfer, and use of anti-personnel land mines.The letter, which was sent to the White...

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Tuesday: 4 Iraqis Killed, 1 Wounded

Updated at 5:45 p.m. EDT, May 18, 2010 At least four Iraqis were killed and one child was wounded in light violence. Witnesses also reported that a number of U.S. soldiers were wounded in a roadside bomb blast in Muqdadiya. Meanwhile, Britain’s Iraq war inquiry panel (Chilcot) traveled to the U.S. to investigate the case for the 2003 invasion.
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The Five-Sided House of Usher

The tea leaves tell me we're about to experience a seismic event that will produce the next collapse of our five-sided House of Usher, the Pentagon. The last time we saw a temblor of that magnitude was in November 2006. Just before the mid-term election, young Mr....

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Brazil-Turkey-Mediated Iran Deal Puts Ball in US Court

The administration of President Barack Obama has reacted skeptically to the nuclear swap accord signed Monday by Iran, Turkey, and Brazil, suggesting that Tehran would have to take significant additional steps to satisfy U.S. and Western demands to curb its nuclear...

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Monday: 5 Iraqis Killed, 5 Wounded

At least five Iraqis were killed and five more were wounded in light violence that focused in Diyala province, where two Sunni imams were killed. Meanwhile, an Iraqi court threw out the disqualifications of nine candidates accused of ties to the Ba’ath Party.
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Shielded by US Umbrella, Israel Joins OECD

UNITED NATIONS - With tongue firmly entrenched in his cheek, an Arab diplomat recounts an Israeli cabinet meeting interrupted by an aide rushing in with the latest statistics on the state of the economy. The crops were down, growth was low, reserves were minimal, and...

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Obama’s Gulf of Tonkin

The claim by the US government that the Times Square would-be bomber, Faisal Shahzad, was “trained” and “directed” by the Pakistani Taliban is looking more bogus by the moment. The latest: one of at least three people arrested in connection with the alleged “plot,”...

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