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A Failed "Transition" is the most comprehensive accounting of the mounting costs of the Iraq war on the United States, Iraq, and the world. Among its major findings are stark figures about the escalation of costs in these most recent three months of "transition" to Iraqi rule, a period that the Bush administration claimed would … Continue reading “A Failed ‘Transition’: The Mounting Costs of the Iraq War”

NEWARK, Delaware – Over 650 foreign affairs specialists in the United States and allied countries have signed an open letter opposing the Bush administration’s foreign policy and calling urgently for a change of course. The letter was released today by Security Scholars for a Sensible Foreign Policy, a nonpartisan group of experts in the field … Continue reading “Security Scholars Call for Change”

Inter Press Service/Pajhwok News KABUL – Voter turnout was heavy in Afghanistan’s first direct presidential election in recent history, but irregularities in the voting process prompted calls for the results to be nullified. Due to a heavy turnout, and despite rain and snow in some mountain areas, polls stayed open an additional two hours in … Continue reading “Afghan Irregularities Prompt Candidates’ Protests”

Britain’s Channel 4 News has broadcast a 30-second video clip of a U.S. pilot killing a group of what appear to be civilians on a Fallujah street. The video includes an audio track of the pilot’s conversation with mission controllers. As the UK Independent notes, “At no point during the exchange between the pilot and … Continue reading “Video: US Pilots Kill Civilians”

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sibel Edmonds, a former FBI contract linguist who was terminated in 2002 after becoming a whistleblower regarding the 9/11 tragedy, filed a lawsuit today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia under the Freedom of Information and Privacy Acts (FOIPA). The complaint seeks to compel the release of a … Continue reading “Whistleblower Sues for Release of 9/11 Info”

It is time for unauthorized truth-telling. Citizens cannot make informed choices if they do not have the facts – for example, the facts that have been wrongly concealed about the ongoing war in Iraq: the real reasons behind it, the prospective costs in blood and treasure, and the setback it has dealt to efforts to … Continue reading “A Call to Patriotic Whistleblowing”

The death toll in Iraq has now exceeded 1,000 U.S. soldiers, more than 640 of whom are combat casualties after President Bush declared “mission accomplished” aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003. Casualties in war are inevitable. And the American public is willing to tolerate such casualties if our troops are … Continue reading “Time to Be Honest on Iraq”

An excerpt from his Senate statement for Vietnam Veterans Against the War on April 22, 1971.  Mr. Kerry: Thank you very much, Senator Fulbright, Senator Javits, Senator Symington, Senator Pell. I would like to say for the record, and also for the men behind me who are also wearing the uniforms and their medals, that … Continue reading “What John Kerry Said in 1971”

The neoconservative New York Sun is reporting that Attorney General John Ashcroft halted arrests in the Israeli spy case last Friday. From the Sun: "According to sources familiar with the investigation, the U.S. district attorney in charge of the probe, Paul McNulty, has ordered the FBI not to move forward with arrests that they were … Continue reading “Ashcroft Nixes Arrests in Israeli Spy Probe”

Our country’s military now declares preparations to attack the Shrine of Ali in the city of Najaf in Iraq. Our country stands on the precipice of declaring war on Islam. An attack on the Shrine of Ali is an attack on the heart of Islam and must be nonviolently resisted in our country. The U.S. … Continue reading “Hands Off Najaf”