'Idiot liberals' versus welfare-state liberals on the war The recent confrontation between Tina Richards, the mother of a GI home from Iraq, and Rep. David Obey (D-Wisc.), the powerful head of the House Appropriations Committee, over the Democratic leadership's...
In 1609, a terrible thing happened: not terrible in the manner that great wars are terrible but in the way that opening Pandora's Box was terrible. King James I of England discovered that dividing people on the basis of religion worked like a charm, thus sentencing...
Last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) released new figures on the disintegrating health situation in Iraq, where, according to the group, 100 people a day die, on average, and countless more are wounded. Of the injured who manage to make it to an emergency...
Updated at 11:51 p.m. EDT, April 23, 2007At least 107 Iraqis were killed or found dead today and 161 Iraqis were wounded in violent attacks. Significant bombings took place in Baghdad, Mosul, Ramadi and Baquba. No foreign casualties were reported. At least 10 GIs and...
There is a crisis atmosphere at World Bank headquarters here in Washington, with dozens of emergency staff meetings, more calls for the embattled president Paul Wolfowitz to step down, and clearer displays of rebellion inside the Bank. Bank sources speaking to IPS on...
Updated at 12:33 a.m. EDT, April 23, 2007Violence resumed at an accelerated pace today. Two significant bombings took place in Baghdad, and the mass murder of 23 factory workers occurred in Mosul. Overall, 102 Iraqis were killed or found dead today and another 166...
Updated at 11:10 p.m. EDT, April, 21, 2008 Saturday was unusually quiet in Iraq. Only 43 Iraqis were reported killed or found dead and 17 were wounded. One Polish soldier and three GIs and a Marine were also reported killed, while four Poles and eight Americans were...
BASRA - Oil-rich Basra in the south of Iraq is getting caught up in an increasingly more fierce battle between warring Shi'ite groups. Basra, the second largest city in Iraq with a population of 2.6 million, is the capital city of the southern Basra province, and...
In his State of the Union Address this year, the Commander in Chief of the War on Terror asked the newly-elected Democrat-controlled Congress to join him "in pursuing a great goal." To effect regime change in Iran, thereby delivering "a decisive blow to...
There’s a certain charm in hearing a politician tell the truth, but in political terms Majority Leader Harry Reid put his foot in it when he said in public that he told President Bush in private that "this war is lost" and that the "surge"...
