The Bush administration's greatest success is its ability to escape accountability for its numerous impeachable offenses. The administration's offenses against US law, the US Constitution, civil liberties, human rights, and the Geneva Conventions, its lies to Congress...
Friday: 2 GIs, 62 Iraqis Killed; 126 Iraqis Wounded
Updated at 12:51 a.m. EST, Mar. 17, 2007At least 62 Iraqis were reported killed or found dead today and another 126 were wounded. Also, the U.S. military reported that two more American servicemembers were killed in separate incidents yesterday. An American soldier...
War Drags the Dollar Down
See the faint jet plumes overhead? Once soaring high through the celestial sphere of finance, the dollar is starting to lose orbit tugged by the drag of war. But this time it's different. It's different because war is being waged in a monetary climate that has...
Backtalk, March 15, 2007
End of Cowboy Diplomacy, Part II? Dear Mr. Lobe, I am very grateful for your perceptive and rich articles, and I have been reading them for years. This last piece is particularly encouraging. In addition to the strong case you make about the ascendancy of the...
Desperately Seeking a Leader
Zoran Djindjic, prime minister and the most powerful man in Serbia since the October 2000 coup, was assassinated on March 12, 2003. Fate would have it that Slobodan Milosevic, the man Djindjic helped overthrow, and whom he illegally extradited to the Hague Inquisition...
Thursday: 98 Iraqis, 6 GIs Killed; 88 Iraqis Injured
Updated at 11:40 p.m. EST, Mar. 15, 2007 At least 98 Iraqis were reported killed or found dead today and 88 more were injured. Several Saudi and Syrian fighters were also killed. And, six American servicemembers were killed in separate incidents.The U.S. military...
The Exaggerated Terror Threat
Interview conducted March 6, 2007. Listen to the interview. Is Iraq a distraction from the real War on Terrorism? Is there a real War on Terrorism? What exactly is the threat to the Heimatland? (That's "Homeland" in the original German.) To help discuss these...
‘Pragmatism’ Is Prolonging
the War
The days are getting longer, but the media shadows are no shorter as they cover the war in Iraq through American eyes, squinting in Washington's pallid sun. Debated as an issue of politics, the actual war keeps being drained of life. Abstractions thrive inside the...
A Journalist Writes Bloody Murder and No One Notices
Let me see if I've got this straight. Perhaps two years ago, an "informal" meeting of "veterans" of the 1980s Iran-Contra scandal holding positions in the Bush administration was convened by Deputy National Security Adviser Elliott Abrams. Discussed were...
Pelosi’s Betrayal
Read it and weep: "Top House Democrats retreated Monday from an attempt to limit President Bush's authority for taking military action against Iran as the leadership concentrated on a looming confrontation with the White House over Iraq. Officials said Speaker Nancy...


