Breaking news: The Army officer in charge of the interrogation/torture operation at Abu Ghraib in late 2003 is being court-martialed. My first thought: Finally, an officer is being held accountable. In view of the repeated rebuff to my own attempts to stop the torture...
Iraq's prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, is rising a notch in my estimation. He's begun to snap back at his American critics. Bully for him. Arrogant American politicians, in calling for his ouster, shed all pretense of any interest in democracy. Clearly they see...
Israeli officials warned the George W. Bush administration that an invasion of Iraq would be destabilizing to the region and urged the United States to instead target Iran as the primary enemy, according to former administration official Lawrence Wilkerson. Wilkerson,...
For months we at Antiwar.com have been monitoring the situation between Iran and the United States, parsing the words of administration spokesmen for any hints of when and how hostilities between the two countries might begin. We've been running reports from insiders...
FALLUJAH - Fallujah is quiet these days. After all the fighting and destruction of 2004, U.S. and Iraqi forces call this success. Many residents are not so sure. Fallujah, 35 mi. west of Baghdad, produced some of the strongest resistance yet to U.S. forces and their...
Updated at 11:55 p.m. EDT, Aug. 29, 2007A day after a deadly battle in Kerbala, authorities say that order has been restored. In related news, Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has ordered his Mahdi Army to cease all attacks until rogue elements are eliminated. Overall,...
Updated at 11:31 p.m. EDT, Aug. 28, 2007As feared, violence broke out in Kerbala during a pilgrimage to a Shi’ite shrine. Local police have ordered the hundreds of thousands already gathered to leave the city and officially ended observances. Overall, at least...
Anyone who doubts that the war party is firmly focused on Iran need only take note of the Aug. 21 lead editorial in the Washington Post, which had the heading "Tougher on Iran: The Revolutionary Guard is at war with the United States. Why not fight back?"...
In the videos below, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and Doug Casey debate Dinesh D'Souza and Larry Abraham on U.S. foreign policy. The debate was part of FreedomFest, held July 10-12, 2007, in Las Vegas.
As Americans anguish over how to extricate this country from Iraq without a disaster greater than what we now have, and without our friends suffering the fate of our friends in Cambodia and Vietnam, they had best brace themselves. This escalator is going up. George...
