t least 34 people were killed and 70 more were wounded in a string of attacks. The most significant violence took place in the capital and in towns south of Baghdad.
read moreThe Outpost
Like many habitues of antiwar.com, I generally do not find much time for sitting down and reading a book since I have become accustomed to obtaining most of my information in easily digestible bites over the internet. This year for Christmas I received a copy of The...
Three Killed, Five Wounded in Quiet Day in Iraq
In Falluja, the body of a beheaded teenager was discoverd. Gunmen killed a policeman. A bomb wounded two civilians in Zuba'. In Mosul, gunmen killed a human resources manager. A bomb wounded a man who works for the Appeals Court as a driver. A bomb blast at a market...
Hold US Policymakers to Their Abysmal Record on Foreign Meddling
The United States and Saudi Arabia appear to be ramping up aid to the Syrian rebels. Here we go again on the road to debacle. Why? The media never holds anybody to either their predictions or their results--officeholders, politicians, and of course their own pundits....
What Was That All About?
A recent poll showed most Americans didn't know enough about Chuck Hagel to have an opinion on his confirmation as Secretary of Defense. You'd never know that, however, with all the drama emanating from Washington on the subject. So did all that sound and fury signify...
Former Hostages Call for Broadened Dialogue with Iran
On the eve of resumed talks between Iran and the P5+1 (the U.S., Britain, France, Russia, China plus Germany) in Almaty, Kazakhstan over its nuclear program, two former hostages of the U.S. embassy takeover in Tehran argued that the aura of mistrust that has dogged...
15 Killed, 26 Wounded in Iraq
At least 15 people were killed and 26 more were wounded in violence that focused on restive Diyala province.
read moreBoots on Campus
Have American university campuses become so inured to the militarization of policy, culture – our thought – that they can’t see the Trojan horse sitting in the quad, its occupants pouring out and passing out sweets and credits to all the Ivy Leaguers passing by with...
Former Insiders Criticize Iran Policy as US Hegemony
“Going to Tehran” arguably represents the most important work on the subject of U.S.-Iran relations to be published thus far. Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett tackle not only U.S. policy toward Iran but the broader context of Middle East policy...
Shenzo Abe Does D.C.
Last October a delegation of the U.S. imperial elite slithered into Japan, led by Richard Armitage, former Undersecrtary of State and Joseph Nye, Dean Emeritus of the Kennedy School of Empire – er, Government- at Dear Old Harvard. They came armed with a diatribe...
