The neoconservative hawks in the Bush administration demand regime change in Iran. The nation's supposed ties to Palestinian and Lebanese terrorist groups coupled with its attempts to build a nuclear weapon motivate such prescriptions. Of course, the (sometimes)...
61 US Soldiers Killed This Week
In a flurry of weekend press releases, the Department of Defense named another 26 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq. These deaths bring the total killed since Nov. 8 to 61. Such facts may conflict with "official numbers" released to the unquestioning media. However, in an...
Bush Bashing Done Right
See Chapter One of The Bush Betrayal appearing today on Antiwar.com. Bovard begins his book by defining a new concept: Though Bush continually invokes freedom to sanctify himself and his policies, Bush freedom is based on boundless trust in the righteousness of the...
The Movie Moore Should Have Made
Anyone demanding an intelligent and factual analysis of the march to war on Iraq need only look to Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear and the Selling of American Empire (HC hereafter). Released by the Media Education Foundation and written by Jeremy Earp and Sut...
A Grim Milestone
In a shocking upsurge of violence, American deaths in Iraq reached a grim milestone yesterday. The bombing in Fallujah resulted in the deaths of five GIs and four contract workers: In one of the bloodiest days for the U.S. military this year, five 1st Infantry...
Top US General in Iraq to Soldiers: Shut Up!
UPDATE (7/18/03: 6:00 EDT) Pentagon Retaliates Against GIs Who Spoke Out on TV: The General's warning (see below) was not empty: "It was the end of the world," said one officer Thursday. "It went all the way up to President Bush and back down again on...
‘Iraqi Freedom’
In a recent Pentagon briefing, Sec. Rumsfeld attempts to assuage concerns about the increased hostilities in Iraq. He states that the recent deaths of American and British soldiers "show the world is still engaged in a dangerous war against terrorism." This subtle...
Dead in the Water
"If it was an accident, it was the best planned accident I've ever seen." - USS Liberty Survivor The repurcusions of American foreign policy affect not only third world nations and the American taxpayer, but also the American servicemen at the front lines. One...
Mini-Nukes
In my previous column, I presented the following challenge to my pro-war readers: "...make a comparable list of pre-Iraq war news that is now nonexistent because of the war on Iraq. I imagine this is an insurmountable task. If you send me 'Saddam is a tyrant no more'...
Liberation? Not Yet
Iraqi Self-Rule Delayed In addition to scientific studies, there is ample evidence that politicians lie, prevaricate and steal. Paul Bremer, the new civil administrator of Iraq, is no exception. Consider the following: in an about-face, America decided Iraq was not...