I had been thinking recently that I might start a business that would export fruitcakes to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. That was the most appropriate export I could think of. But the president has put the kibosh on that idea with his tough new sanctions. Despite...
Yet More Condi Rice Diplomacy
In announcing her latest "steps" in the Bush-Cheney campaign to effect regime change in Iran, Condi Rice claimed they were necessary because Iran had again rejected the offer originally made "on our behalf" back in May, 2006, by Javier Solana the European Union...
Turkish Incursion Into Iraq a Minefield Larger Than It Looks
ANKARA - Tension between Turkey, Iraq and the United States went up another degree as Turkish artillery continued Wednesday and Thursday to shell civilian targets and Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) positions across its border, while army helicopters launched several...
Welcome to ‘Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week’
with Ali Gharib Right-wing pundit David Horowitz was in rare form during a tightly controlled "public speech" at the George Washington University on Thursday night, decrying the US academic Left as a hateful "lynch mob" who act as apologists for...
Saturday: 1 GI, 68 Iraqis Killed, 38 Wounded; over 100 Iraqi Troops Poisoned
Updated at 10:45 p.m. EDT, Oct. 27, 2007As protesters in the U.S. called for an end to the war, at least 68 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 38 more were wounded in the latest round of violence. One U.S. servicemember was also killed in Salah ad Din province....
Make China Be Nice?
The despotic regime in Myanmar is among the most odious governments on earth. The military has ruled the isolated state for more than four decades. The urban democracy movement, symbolized by Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, for years has battled bullets and...
The War in the Media
The debate over the Iraq war has become a spectacle of dueling narratives. You'll recall, however, that in the beginning there was only one narrative, and that was the War Party's. We were told that Iraq possessed "weapons of mass destruction," a war machine that...
(Un)Fair Game
Evidently, Blackwater, the now infamous private security company whose hired guns, working for the State Department, mowed down at least 17 Iraqis in a Baghdad square recently, wants to soften its image. (I wonder why?) The New York Times' Paul von Zielbauer just...
US Military Ignored Evidence of Iraqi-Made EFPs
When the US military command accused the Iranian Quds Force last January of providing the armor-piercing EFPs (explosively formed penetrators) that were killing US troops, it knew that Iraqi machine shops had been producing their own EFPs for years, a review of the...
Dialogue Undermined by White House’s Iran Sanctions
The heads of the US State and Treasury Departments jointly announced new sanctions aimed at the further economic isolation of Iran Thursday, citing the Islamic Republic's defiance on its continued nuclear program and its alleged involvement with terrorist...


