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...
Fed Up With Freeloaders
The Persecution of Juan Cole
Palestinian Children Targeted as Israel Crushes Unrest
SILWAN, Palestine - "Father please help me! Don't let them take me away," screamed 12-year-old Ahmed Siyam as approximately 50 heavily armed Israeli soldiers and police dragged the handcuffed and blindfolded boy away. Last month Ahmed was pulled out of his...
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...
Thursday: 4 Iraqis, 3 Foreigners Killed; 5 Iraqis Wounded
At least four Iraqis were killed and five more were wounded in very light violence. Three foreigners were also killed, during a home invasion in Hilla, and seven Iranian soldiers were killed near the border. In Hilla, gunmen broke into a home where they killed three...
La Nation Building du Jour
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...
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...