Antiwar.com is pleased to announce the winners of its first-ever Student Essay Contest, held summer 2006. Today we present Jamie Stern-Weiner of the United Kingdom, 2nd place winner in the senior division. Alexia Gilmore Executive director, Antiwar.com "Wherever Law...
Bush Is About to Attack Iran Like Paul Craig Roberts, I believe that the American attack on Iran will employ nuclear weapons, and it will lead to disaster. I also believe that Bush and Cheney are simply waiting for the pretext, the next "new Pearl Harbor," to push the...
The dream of the Bush administration – eternal global domination abroad with no other superpower or bloc of powers on the military horizon and a Republican Party dominant at home for at least a generation – long ago evaporated in Iraq. A midterm election and...
with Ali al-Fadhily NAJAF, Iraq - Iraqi government lies over the killing of hundreds of Shi'ites in an attack on Sunday stand exposed by independent investigations carried out by IPS in Iraq. Conflicting reports had arisen earlier on how and why a huge battle broke...
BETHLEHEM, Palestine - Over the last year, Palestinians have faced a siege that has taken its toll in every city across the West Bank and Gaza. It is not a siege of missiles and gunfire, but a calculated attack on the backbone of the entire occupied territories....
BUDAPEST - The new right-wing government of the Czech Republic, eager to prove its "prestige" as a reliable ally of the United States, last week started negotiations for the setting up of a military base in the Czech Republic. It will not be easy. Czech neo-liberal...
For the first time in its history, Africa is poised to get its very own US military command. The advent of "AFRICOM," which will be heralded next week when US President George W. Bush submits his 2008 budget request to Congress, marks an official...
Antiwar.com is pleased to announce the winners of its first-ever Student Essay Contest, held summer 2006. Today we present Hilary Worden of the United States, third place winner in the senior division. Alexia Gilmore Executive director, Antiwar.com "[T]he very nature...
According to President Bush, the additional 21,500 U.S. troops to be deployed in Iraq will provide "the force levels we need" to secure Baghdad. The president would have us believe previous lack of success is because "there were not enough Iraqi and...
When Congress finally decides on just the right language for its "non-binding resolution" deploring Bush's leadership in this war, it might consider a resolution to keep us out of the next one. For America is on a collision course with an Iran of 70 million, and the...
