Cornering the Russian Bear The article "Cornering The Russian Bear " is a great article. I really loved it. It looks like nowadays politicians are insane. For almost half a century the U.S. had a cautious policy toward Moscow. When Stalin, back in 1948, encircled...
It should be becoming increasingly obvious that the present arrangement with Pakistan is simply not working for the United States. Although various U.S. military leaders keep traveling to Pakistan to try to tweak things around the edges, it is of course unlikely that...
Friends, Enemies, and "Existential" Threats In the ceaseless and invariably bellicose calls for war (both open and clandestine) against Iran, perhaps one argument invoked by pro-war pundits and politicians stands out and takes pride of place above all...
The following is an excerpt from Winter Soldier Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations by Iraq Veterans Against the War and Aaron Glantz. From March 13-16, hundreds of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans gathered in Silver Spring, Md., to testify...
In reading about the federal bailout of all those financial wheeler-dealer outfits that are supposedly "too big to fail," the layman may be forgiven for failing to comprehend the intricacies of the arcane financial instruments currently backfiring on their whiz-kid...
Updated at 6:10 p.m. EDT, Sept. 22, 2008 At least 40 Iraqis were killed and 18 more were wounded in the latest attacks. Half the dead were recovered from mass graves in Diyala province. Also, a U.S. soldier was killed during an armed attack yesterday in Baghdad....
Updated at 5:54 p.m. EDT, Sept. 21, 2008At least 20 Iraqis were killed and 114 more were wounded in the latest violence. Relatively small but numerous bombings plagued Baghdad, while Kirkuk and Mosul both suffered bomb attacks that left dozens of casualties. No...
A recent US raid into Pakistan from Afghanistan using Special Forces on the ground is apparently part of the Bush administration's new "get tough" policy on the Taliban and al-Qaeda sanctuary in the tribal areas of Pakistan. For many years, Osama bin...
By using the written word and art, veterans of the US occupation of Iraq are transforming their trauma into a message of both healing and resistance to the failed US adventure. "If I say nothing, I have failed," writes veteran Drew Cameron, "If I do...
Perhaps you’re relieved, judging that the looming worldwide economic depression – which was not deliberately caused by Bubba Clinton or Dubya Bush or the Best Congress Money Can Buy – will make World War III less likely. But Bubba (with a complicit...
