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...
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...
Updated at 5:15 p.m. EDT, Sept. 20, 2008At least 16 Iraqis were killed and 41 others were wounded in light violence. A Turkish truck driver was injured in Mosul as well, but no Coalition deaths were reported.A car bomb killed three security personnel and wounded 23...
February 17, 2008 was supposed to be a triumph of Empire's doctrine of righteous interventionism, anytime, anywhere. That Moscow and Belgrade could not stop the blatantly illegal creation of "independent" Kosovo was to be the proof of Washington's power, and...
Six decades have passed since World War II ended, but you wouldn't know it from relations between South Korea and Japan. The two leading democratic, capitalist powers in East Asia – both close US allies – have been blustering over the status of 33 barren but...
Today, Omar Khadr, the sole Canadian citizen in Guantánamo, marks his 22nd birthday in isolation. Seized in Afghanistan when he was just 15 years old, Omar has now spent nearly a third of his life in US custody, in conditions that ought to be shameful to the US...
Updated at 5:55 p.m. EDT, Sept. 19, 2008At least 16 Iraqis were killed and 20 more were wounded in the latest attacks, which included a U.S. airstrike that killed civilians. No Coalition deaths were reported. Also, South Korea will pull all remaining troops stationed...
