The conference in Washington, D.C. that I was attending gave us only a few hours of free time on Saturday afternoon, but fortunately that was when the big antiwar march was planned. So I wandered the Mall, where I had thought it was supposed to be held –...
Israeli officials ain't talking, but the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) is reporting that "government sources" in the United States and elsewhere "suggest" that two weeks ago a squadron of Israeli fighter-bombers attacked "a nuclear facility...
In the late 1960s and early '70s, then US President Richard Nixon appealed to the country's "Silent Majority" to oppose growing anti-Vietnam War sentiment in the United States. A decade later, President Ronald Reagan had the Rev. Jerry Falwell's "Moral...
HAJI OMARAN (Iraq-Iran border) - Sixty-year-old Khadijah Hama Khan has had to flee home again. Nothing new. "All our life we have been on the run," she says. This time she had to flee Iranian shelling on her border village. It was not easy; she injured her...
Updated at 11:05 p.m. EDT, Sat. 22, 2007At least 54 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 31 were wounded in the latest violence. An incident involving U.S. troops killing a family in Iskandariya was reported. Also, an attack in Suleiman Bek left a number of civilians...
Has anyone noticed that our commander-in-chief no longer plays dress up? He hasn't done so for a while and that's no small thing. It's a phenomenon that came and went almost without comment in the media. I don't remember the first time I noticed that George W. Bush...
A US Army captain in Africa waxes philosophical. It's like the old saying, he opines; "give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day, teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever." Is he talking about skills-building, or community empowerment? No: Captain Joseph...
It may have been politically incorrect to publish the thoughts on the sixth anniversary of 9-11, but what Colin Powell had to say to GQ magazine needs to be heard. Terrorism, said Powell, is not a mortal threat to America. "What is the greatest threat...
Other than an increasingly beleaguered band of administration factotums and neoconservative propagandists, few Americans defend the decision to invade Iraq. The mistakes have been too catastrophic and too many for the rest of us to take seriously more of the same...
Updated at 11:50 p.m EDT, Sept. 21, 2007At least 29 Iraqis were killed or found dead and another 19 were wounded during numerous but small attacks. Also, a Romanian soldier and four GIs were reported killed in separate incidents. Yesterday, a Task Force Lightning...
