As world attention is fixed on events in the Middle East, particularly the continuing meltdown of the American occupation in Iraq, another crisis brews. It is the coming showdown between the U.S. and Russia, centered in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. Relations...
Updated at 11:50 p.m. EST, Nov. 20, 2006 After a particularly gruesome Sunday, Monday brought the deaths of 146 Iraqis. Another 32 Iraqis were wounded in violent events throughout the country. Also, two American servicemembers were killed over the weekend and two...
The Baker commission – or more accurately, the Geriatric Squad – is not likely to come up with a solution to the Iraq War. The commission consists of some old political types – two ex-secretaries of state, Jim Baker and Lawrence Eagleburger; two...
The Mugging of Murtha Damn bad news about your ailing fundraising! Real change in U.S./coalition policies seems as unlikely as ever. In my humble opinion, the only way change will happen is via the U.S. citizenry acting in enlightened self-interest and saving lots of...
with Ali Al-Fadhily BAGHDAD (IPS) – The recent kidnapping of scores of academics in Baghdad highlights the desperate situation of the educational system in occupied Iraq. Armed men wearing Iraqi police uniforms abducted as many as 150 academics from the Ministry...
Four of the U.S. soldiers on trial for the murder of a disabled Iraqi man have reached plea bargains with military prosecutors, drastically minimizing the time they will spend in jail. In June, the Pentagon announced that a group of Marines went to the home of the...
Updated at 11:29 p.m EST, Nov. 19, 2006 Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem arrived in Iraq to find that 182 Iraqis were killed or reported dead and 140 were wounded in separate incidents today. Prominent kidnapping attempts also continued, some successful. The U.S....
David Grossman's widely publicized speech at the annual memorial rally for Yitzhak Rabin earlier this month has prompted some fine deconstruction of his "words of peace" from critics. Grossman, one of Israel's foremost writers and a figurehead for its main...
Al-Jazeera, the Arab television network that the Bush administration hates so passionately, has launched its English-language service but is, of course, having trouble finding an American cable or satellite system willing to carry it. The British Broadcasting Corp....
"Two, Three, Many Vietnams!" was Che Guevara's famous call to arms. Today we remain in the throes of our third Vietnam, Iraq. This is the third time since World War II that hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops have been sent abroad in a neo-colonialist war...
