Poor Jimmy Carter. All he wanted to do was talk peace. But all he got was the shaft, from the Bush administration, the secretary of state, the Israeli government, the mainstream media, and the presidential candidates. White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe denounced...
Israel Loves Mugabe Justin Raimondo's memory has failed him. I have never supported Robert Mugabe. Even during the war of liberation I supported his then rival Joshua N'Komo. I have many times criticized Mr. Mugabe, in print and on my radio shows. I have never met Mr....
The U.S. government's anti-terrorist financing programs are based on the "guilt by association" tactics of the McCarthy era and have had a widespread negative impact on U.S. charities, critics say. That is the view of Kay Guinane, director of the Nonprofit...
Updated at 1:30 a.m. EDT, April 23, 2008At least 56 Iraqis were killed and 185 more were wounded in attacks across Iraq. Many of the wounded died either in Sadr City or during one of several significant bombings. Also, five U.S. servicemembers were killed in separate...
In what appears to be nothing more than propaganda masquerading as news, the U.S. military has announced, as Reuters described it, that it will "televise the Guantánamo trial of accused September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and five other suspects...
Can there be any question that, since the invasion of 2003, Iraq has been unraveling? And here's the curious thing: Despite a lack of decent information and analysis on crucial aspects of the Iraqi catastrophe, despite the way much of the Iraq story fell off newspaper...
Updated at 7:30 p.m. EDT Apr. 21, 2008At least 41 Iraqis were killed and 112 more were wounded in the latest attacks. Much of the violence involved continued fighting in Sadr City. Two American soldiers were killed. An IED in Salah ad Din province killed two American...
At the passing of the 25th anniversary of the 1983 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon – the first large suicide bombing to target Americans – the time is right to ask the perennial question: has the Bush administration's "war on terror" since...
Editorial note: What follows is the text of a speech delivered at the MidCoast Forum on Foreign Relations in Rockport, Maine, on April 21, 2008. One would think that the title of my talk – "The Middle East: Turning the Page on U.S. Foreign Policy" – is...
Updated at 12:30 a.m. EDT, April 21, 2008Early reports from Sadr City and Baghdad suggest that fighting between the Mahdi army and security forces has increased. Meanwhile, two mass graves were found in Diyala province. At least 108 Iraqis were killed and another 60...
