After a four-year legal battle, a US federal judge has dismissed all charges against an avant-garde artist who public officials condemned as a bio-terrorist in a case critics are calling "a persecution, not a prosecution." The artist is Dr. Steven Kurtz, a...
FALLUJAH - Amidst unemployment and impoverishment, Iraqis now face a cutting down of their monthly food ration – much of it already eaten away by official corruption. Iraqis survived the sanctions after the first Gulf War (1990) with the support of rations...
Updated at 9:55 p.m. EDT, May 3, 2008At least 44 Iraqis were killed and 122 more were wounded in the latest violence. Turkey reports that 150 PKK rebels were killed during their activities in northern Iraq, but there is no confirmation of that figure. Five American...
Christianity and War and Other Essays Against the Warfare State Laurence M. Vance Vance Publications (Pensacola, Fl.), 2008 418 pp. By Doug Bandow One of the great ironies of modern Christianity is how warlike many Christians are. Not all Christians, certainly. And...
The War Party has a reliable strategy when faced with a rising political figure who threatens their monopoly on American politics, one that is time-tested and invariably successful: when all else fails, they bring out the Smear Bund. This is a term coined by John T....
It's like old times in the Persian Gulf. As of this week, a second aircraft carrier battle task force is being sent in – not long after Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Adm. Michael Mullen highlighted planning for "potential military courses of action" against Iran;...
Douglas J. Feith's new book War and Decision. Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism is an old-fashioned morality tale written by a man with little discernible moral sense or any real concern for the truth. In a nutshell, Feith's story resembles a...
Updated at 10:25 p.m. EDT, May 2, 2008At least 30 Iraqis were killed and 36 more wounded in the latest violence. No Coalition deaths were reported. Also, Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) locations deep within northern Iraq. In Sadr City, seven...
Updated at 9:00 p.m. EDT, May 1, 2008At least 93 Iraqis were killed and 212 more were wounded in the latest violence. Two mass grave were found in Duluiya, but the number of bodies was not reported yet. An American soldier was killed during a car bombing today in...
With nine months left in office, the Bush administration has opened negotiations with the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that are expected to set parameters within which future relationships between Iraq and the United States will be conducted. The end...
