Churchillian it was not. Yet the State of the Union seemed a success if Bush's purpose was to buy time from Congress to wait and see if his surge of US forces into Iraq might yet succeed. But when Bush started to describe the ideological war we are in, one began to...
Thursday: 113 Iraqis, 1 GI Killed; 190 Iraqis, 3 GIs, 2 Britons Wounded
Updated at 1:25 a.m. EST, Jan. 26, 2007 At least 113 Iraqis were killed or found dead today and another 193 wounded during a series of bombings in the capital and other attacks throughout the country. One American soldier was killed and three more GIs were wounded in...
Antiwar Groups Plan Surge on Washington
United for Peace antiwar demos Peace activists from around the United States will converge on Washington Saturday for what organizers hope will be the largest demonstration to date against the Iraq war. "We expect a turnout in the six figures," said Tom Andrews, a...
Don’t Let Congress Backslide
United for Peace antiwar demos George Bush's State of the Union speech provided every single US resident that opposes the war in Iraq with a reason to take that opposition into the streets. His argument that ending the US military involvement in that nation would lead...
US, Iranian Publics Not So Different
The people of Iran and the United States share many of the same hopes and fears about global problems but remain deeply distrustful of each other's government, according to a major survey of public opinion in both countries released here Wednesday. As speculation...
Revolt Builds Against Bush’s Iraq Policy
In the first step toward what some believe could eventually lead to a constitutional crisis, a key Congressional committee approved a nonbinding resolution here Wednesday formally dissenting from President George W. Bush's plan to send some 21,000 more troops to Iraq....
Death to a Nation
Antiwar.com is pleased to announce the winners of its first-ever Student Essay Contest, held summer 2006. Today we present Ayn Codina of Costa Rica, 2nd-place winner in the junior division. Alexia Gilmore Executive director, Antiwar.com War can mean power, land,...
The State Spies on the Union
State of the what? Let's see, 28 percent, 31 percent, 33 percent, 35 percent. That pretty much sums up the state of the president or, at least, of his ever more dismal approval ratings in four of the latest major polls (and don't even mention his state of...
The Empire Turns Its
Guns on the Citizenry
In recent years American police forces have called out SWAT teams 40,000 or more times annually. Last year did you read in your newspaper or hear on TV news of 110 hostage or terrorist events each day? No. What then were the SWAT teams doing? They were serving routine...
Doomsday Clock Ticking Faster
The Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) has moved the minute hand of the legendary Doomsday Clock forward by two minutes to show that the world is now only five minutes away from the ultimate catastrophe, or the end of civilization, symbolically...


