Updated at 7:20 p.m. EDT, April, 16, 2008At least 28 Iraqis were killed and 47 more were wounded in the latest attacks. No Coalition deaths were reported. The U.S. military released a Pulitzer prizewinning photographer after holding him in prison for two years....
Tough New Iran Sanctions Could Backfire, Experts Warn
In the more than five years since the George W. Bush administration's misdirected adventurism in Iraq, the fundamental balance of power in the Middle East has shifted. Iran's mullahs, once fearful of meeting the same fate as the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein,...
Five Years On, Fallujah in Tatters
FALLUJAH - Fallujah remains a crippled city more than three years after the November 2004 U.S.-led assault. Unemployment and lack of medical care and safe drinking water in the city 35 mi. west of Baghdad remain a continuous problem. Freedom of movement is still...
John Yoo’s Dilemma
John Yoo, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, faces a dilemma. You might recall that he was one of the most controversial lawyers in the Bush administration's early years. Yoo was the deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal...
Attitudes Toward US Worsen in Arab World
Despite renewed U.S. efforts to achieve an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement this year, popular views of the United States in the Arab world have actually worsened since 2006, according to a major new survey [.pdf] of public opinion in six Arab states. Nearly...
Tuesday: 2 Marines, 125 Iraqis Killed; 166 Iraqis Wounded
Updated at 11:38 p.m. EDT, April 15, 2008The country was rocked by several car bombs as clashes resumed in Sadr City. At least 125 Iraqis were killed and 166 were wounded in the elevated violence. Also, two Marines were killed during combat operations in Anbar...
Iraq: From One Dictator to Another?
BAGHDAD - Many Iraqis have come to believe that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is just as much a dictator as Saddam Hussein was. "Al-Maliki is a dictator who must be removed by all means," 35-year-old Abdul-Riza Hussein, a Mahdi Army member from Sadr...
American Hegemony Is Not Guaranteed
Exactly as the British press predicted, last week's congressional testimony by Gen. David Petraeus and Green Zone administrator Ryan Crocker set the propaganda stage for a Bush regime attack on Iran. On April 10 Robert H. Reid of AP News reported: "The top U.S....
Bob Barr: Wrong About Colombia
Bob Barr's announcement that he is making a run for the White House on the Libertarian ticket has many advocates of a non-interventionist foreign policy hopeful, even excited and I include myself among them. A successor to Ron Paul is right around the corner,...
Things Unsaid at the Petraeus Hearings
According to Gen. David H. Petraeus' progress report to Congress on Iraq, the latest worst threat to the shaky U.S. position is Iranian-backed "special groups." This label refers to parts of Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army, which Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki...


