As I write, the House of Representatives is passing a "supplemental" war-funding bill – an event that one would think ought to be the occasion for a renewed debate on the war, whether to end it or, as John McCain would like, to escalate it. One, however, would be...
What is the importance of the war in Iraq relative to other current issues? This is a question I am often asked, especially as Americans continue to become increasingly aware that something is very wrong with the economy. The difficulty with the way the question is...
Contrary to some expectations, the visit of the two controversial American professors was a great success. John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, whose book The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy has caused an uproar in the United States and was boycotted there by the...
When reflecting on the American struggle for independence from Great Britain (1775-1783), one of the things that stands out was how the colonists had lost faith in the system they previously lived under. Arguing that the British crown had violated their innate rights...
Military alliances are always sold as things that produce security. In practice they tend to do the opposite. Thus, Germany formed the Triple Alliance with Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire to counter the enmity of France following the Franco-Prussian War. In...
Imagine that you're a non-U.S. citizen living outside the United States. A U.S. government official decides that you're an enemy of the United States, captures you and takes you to a prison outside the United States. You're not wearing the military uniform of a...
BAQUBA - Just about everyone in Iraq is a loser as a result of the occupation, but none more than women. One of the more obvious signs of that is the very large number of widows. The Asharq al-Awsat Arab media channel estimated in late 2007 there were 2.3 million...
This is clearly no time for being mealy-mouthed. After nearly seven years of ruinous warmongering, economic meltdown, and the shredding of the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Geneva Conventions, and the UN Convention Against Torture, Sen. John McCain, who...
Updated at 11:00 p.m. EDT, June 19, 2008Few casualties were reported today in Iraq, but violations by security forces during an operation in a southern city threaten to unravel a tenuous cease-fire and may bring heavy violence back to the country. At least 14 Iraqis...
Ring the alarm bells: apparently the Iraq war and occupation are being "privatized" with the introduction of private security contractors such as Blackwater USA. Much has been written on the crimes and abuses of power that have been committed by these...
