Friday: 6 Iraqis Killed, 19 Wounded

At least six Iraqis were killed and 19 more were wounded in the latest attacks. Hoping to reduce the unemployment burden on Iraqis, the government is considering deporting foreign workers and placing curbs on their potential employers. In Baghdad, a late day blast...

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Don’t Look Away: The Siege of Gaza Must End

In Late June 2011, I'm going to be a passenger on “The Audacity of Hope,” the USA boat in this summer's international flotilla to break the illegal and deadly Israeli siege of Gaza. Organizers, supporters and passengers aim to nonviolently end the brutal collective...

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Neocons Losing Hold Over Republican Foreign Policy 

Nearly ten years after seizing control of Republican foreign policy, neoconservatives and other hawks appear to be losing it. That is at least the tentative conclusion of a number of political analysts following Monday's first nationally televised debate of the...

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AIPAC Pushes Hard for War With Iran

Former AIPAC staffer Keith Weissman, indicted in 2005 under the Espionage Act alongside colleague Steven J. Rosen and Defense Department employee Col. Lawrence Franklin, is desperately worried. In a lengthy, rambling monologue delivered to independent reporter Robert...

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