Pulling Karzai’s Strings: Obama as Puppeteer
In November 1963, the US-sponsored president of southern Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem, was murdered by members of that country's military. The murder was (at the least) tacitly supported by Washington and was partially due to Diem's attempts to operate independently of...
The New Iraqi Sovereignty
There's got to be some irony in the U.S. transference of control to Iraqi security forces while the Israelis pound Gaza. Why? Because, despite the hoopla in the U.S. press and its Iraqi clones, the nature of the control being "given back" to the Iraqis seems quite...
Election ’08: How Did the Empire Do?
In the wake of the recent election results it's essential to ask how the Empire fared. It's not just occupying Iraq. It's not just brutally occupying Afghanistan under the guise of a war on terror being fought by the heirs of the Wahhabist-influenced,...
Conspiracy to Kill Iraqis?
Checking out the news this morning I came across a news article from AFP describing charges recently filed against four US servicemen who were stationed in Iraq in 2007. The charges included conspiracy to commit premeditated murder, among others. According to the...
Don’t Let Congress Backslide
United for Peace antiwar demos George Bush's State of the Union speech provided every single US resident that opposes the war in Iraq with a reason to take that opposition into the streets. His argument that ending the US military involvement in that nation would lead...
Take This War and Shove It
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -President Dwight D. Eisenhower April 16, 1953 Talk about stepping into the abyss....
Stop the Next War Before It Starts
It's time for the antiwar movement to take U.S. threats against Iran and Syria very, very seriously. Not only are stories of such threats appearing at an increasing rate in the media, they now seem to be a topic of concern on Capitol Hill and at the United Nations....
From DaNang to Tal Afar, Bring ‘Em Home
A review of David Cortright's Soldiers in Revolt (Haymarket 2005) Of all the antiwar buttons I could wear, the only one I choose to pin on my coat or backpack is one that reads "I Support the Iraq Veterans Against the War." Not only does this express my opposition to...