Claims by US President George W. Bush and other top administration officials before the 2003 invasion of Iraq regarding Baghdad's ties to al-Qaeda and its weapons of mass destruction (WMD) program were generally not supported by the evidence that the US intelligence...
Updated at 5:25 p.m. EDT, June 6, 2008At least 21 Iraqis were killed and eight more were wounded on a relatively quiet prayer day. No Coalition troops were reported killed. Meanwhile, Iranian forces continue to shell suspected Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK)...
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's visit to the U.S. is part of a concerted effort, by the Israeli government and its American lobbyists, to convince U.S. lawmakers – and, most of all, President George W. Bush – that the time to attack Iran is now. The...
Now here's a weird one to ponder as the arraignments at Guantánamo commence for five prisoners – including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed – who are charged with facilitating the 9/11 attacks. I've always thought that there was something particularly perverse...
While seven Palestinian Fulbright scholars now appear more likely to get their chance to study in the United States, hundreds of other university students who have received invitations to study abroad remain trapped at home by Israeli security restrictions, according...
Speaking last year at the same forum, he received scattered boos. But as Senator Barack Obama strode towards the podium Wednesday morning at the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), he was greeted with a standing ovation....
Updated at 6:15 p.m. EDT, June 5, 2008At least 20 Iraqis were killed and six more were wounded during mostly light violence. A U.S. soldier was killed south of Baghdad during a small arms attack. Separately, gunmen killed a Coalition soldier from the former Soviet...
Matilda is waltzing home from Iraq, and the Australians are lucky but chastened. Lucky for having lost not one soldier in combat of the 2,000 sent to join the "coalition of the willing" attack on Iraq in March 2003. Chastened because Australian Prime...
American soldiers have long scrawled messages to the enemy on the bombs they were about to deliver. In the The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes reminds us, for instance, that "Little Boy," the bomb that would inaugurate a new age over Hiroshima, "was...
SEATTLE - In a clear change of strategy to energize public antiwar sentiment, Iraq veterans led a determined demonstration of hundreds through the streets of downtown Seattle last Saturday, following regional Winter Soldier hearings at the Seattle Town Hall. A larger...
