Updated at 12:59 a.m EDT, May 34, 2007Although very few reports of violence came out of Iraq today, at least one high-profile militant leader was killed and perhaps a second one as well. Overall, 43 Iraqis and four Filipinos were killed and 30 Iraqis were injured. In...
Even as American officials reluctantly agreed last month to include Syrian representatives in multiparty talks on Iraqi security issues, the Bush administration continues to block Israel from resuming negotiations with Syria over its security concerns. In 2003,...
Historians still argue over the reasons why one particular geographical region managed to achieve such overwhelming military, economic and cultural power as to subordinate the rest of the planet, but the fact remains that as late as 1914, Europe dominated the world in...
The Pentagon and White House continue to argue that they are not planning a war against Iran in spite of the continuing buildup of naval forces in the Persian Gulf, which will peak with the arrival of a third carrier group at the end of May. The naval aviation and...
[Note for TomDispatch readers: On this fourth anniversary of the president's "Mission Accomplished" moment, I urge you to consider ordering yourself a copy of Mission Unaccomplished: TomDispatch Interviews with American Iconoclasts and Dissenters (Nation Books). James...
Former CIA director George Tenet is being lashed by both the pro-war neoconized Right and the antiwar Left, taking so many of the slings and arrows of a truly outrageous fortune that he's beginning to resemble a portrait of Saint Sebastian. Indeed, there is something...
Updated at 1:07 a.m. EDT, May 3, 2007The U.S. military announced that about 4000 fresh troops arrived in the capital as part of a security crackdown that began several weeks ago. Throughout the country today, 117 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 81 were injured in...
Saturday marked the third anniversary of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. On April 28, 2004, CBS broadcast the first graphic photos of torture inside of the U.S.-run prison in Iraq on its 60 Minutes II program. "Americans did this to an Iraqi prisoner," news...
President Bush's plan to deploy missile defenses in Central Europe will reduce U.S. security, not enhance it. Installing radar for tracking incoming missiles in the Czech Republic and anti-missile interceptors in Poland could do more harm than good. Ostensibly, the...
Updated at 6:30 p.m. EDT, May 1, 2007At least 63 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 47 Iraqis were wounded in violent attacks. In unconfirmed reports, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayoub al-Masry, was reported killed as well. Also, one GI and one British...
