A 15-page paper on the process requirements for casting and machining of uranium metal into hemispherical forms – said to useful only for making the core of a nuclear weapon – has been raised by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in recent months...
Updated at 11:35 p.m. EDT, July 9, 2008A number of bombings rocked Mosul and Fallujah today, leaving dozens of casualties. Overall, 30 Iraqis were killed and another 76 were wounded across the country. Also, one American soldier was killed and another two were wounded...
And speaking of oil, just when we were barely getting used to Big Oil and Iraq hitting the front pages of American newspapers in tandem, here comes Afghanistan! Who now remembers that delegation of Taliban officials, shepherded by Unocal ("We're an oil and gas...
Conciliatory noises from Tehran over the nuclear issue have left Washington and Brussels baffled and unconvinced of Iran's intentions. Having grown accustomed to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's uncompromising language, Tehran's new tone has raised more suspicion than...
Updated at 11:50 p.m. EDT, July 8, 2008One American servicemember was killed and five others were wounded in separate incidents around Baghdad. In northern Iraq, four Coalition contractors were also killed, but their nationalities are unknown at press time. At least...
Stephen Zunes' Backtalk Stephen Zunes wrote: "In reality, 'the Iraq War, the threat of war with Iran, and the policy of non-engagement with Hamas and Hezbollah' have actually hurt Israel." Now you're arguing semantics. For that matter, almost everything Israel has...
The U.S. House of Representatives is considering a resolution (HR 362) that calls on the Bush administration to take strong action against Iran, including a naval blockade of its ports. A similar resolution is being considered by the Senate (SR 580). The two...
Of course, if Seymour Hersh is right, in a pretty real sense the Bush administration has already attacked Iran. Under the auspices of a presidential finding promulgated last fall or winter, special operations forces and other operatives are inside Iran trying to stir...
The neocons and their media enablers are in attack mode, decrying Barack Obama's "flip-flop" on the Iraq war. The War Street Journal avers that it's the Audacious One, rather than the GOP nominee, who's running for "Bush's third term." The oracular...
It doesn't take much investigation to discover that Algeria has a bleak human rights record, which is one of the reasons that, until last week, when 49-year-old Mustafa Hamlili and 28-year-old Abdul Raham Houari were freed from Guantánamo, no Algerian prisoners had...
