If America were blessed with a noninterventionist foreign policy, we could all thank Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for giving President-elect Barack Obama a thoroughgoing lesson in the absolute irrelevancy of Israel and Palestine to the national interests of the...
We all know the rationalization for Israel's brutal invasion of the Gaza Strip. After all, it's been reiterated endlessly over the airwaves by official and unofficial spokesmen for the Israeli government, on all channels, and with no rebuttal or skeptical perspective...
Updated at 7:05 p.m. EST, Jan. 5, 2009A half dozen bombs struck Baghdad today, but none seemed to target foreign pilgrims streaming towards Karbala. Across Iraq, at least 7 Iraqis were killed and 45 were wounded in reported attacks. The Constitutional Freedoms and...
Updated at 10:46 p.m. EST, Jan. 4, 2009Thousands of Shi'ite pilgrims, many foreign, are making their way to Karbala to observe the Ashuraa holiday which culminates in three days. As in the past, troublemakers have taken advantage of the 10-day holiday despite...
The "Israeli model" has long been held up by hawks in the United States as the gold standard for dealing with adversarial nation-states, guerrillas, and terrorists. The storyline goes that Israel is a small country surrounded by aggressive enemies that use...
In times of crisis, most Arabs tune in to al-Jazeera television. Sometimes it's comforting for the truth to be stated the way it is, with all of its gory and unsettling details, without blemishes and without censorship. When Israel carried out massive air strikes...
The US section of Amnesty International sent an "urgent" letter Friday to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, calling on her to end what it called Washington's "lopsided response" to the ongoing Israeli air strikes on Gaza that have reportedly...
As 2009 dawns, there is some good news. For example, Bonkers Bolton is no longer, officially, in a position to precipitate an illegal (under international law) attack by the Bush-Cheney Administration on certain Iranian facilities. Those facilities being...
Updated at 12:10 a.m EST, Jan. 4, 2009At least eight Iraqis were killed and 20 more were wounded during light violence. No Coalition deaths were reported. Meanwhile, more information was released on a New Year's Day shooting incident involving U.S. troops. Also, the...
For a decade Russian academic Igor Panarin has been predicting that the US is going to fall apart. He says D-Day will be in 2010. For years he was ignored, but now he's being sought out by the media and invited to Kremlin receptions. Could America's time be over?...
