"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied." - Matthew 5:6 "Put not your faith in princes and sons of men, in whom there is no salvation." - Psalm 146:3 The Sunday after the election, my preacher and I had a brief...
So far from God, so close to the United States, runs the classic Mexican complaint. These days virtually everyone in Latin America seems to believe that the U.S. is too close. The average Central or South American politician wants an embrace by Washington about as...
I fear my readers must think I’ve forgotten about Iraq, since I haven’t written about it in well over a week. Of course it could hardly have slipped my mind – I am, after all, editorial director of a web site known as Antiwar.com. However, I must...
The latest serpent at which a drowning Washington Establishment is grasping is the idea of sending more American troops to Iraq. Would more troops turn the war there in our favor? No. Why not? First, because nothing can. The war in Iraq is irredeemably lost. Neither...
This is the first "indictment" of the president, the vice president, and their colleagues for defrauding us into war in Iraq. I put that "indict" in quotes because what follows, as former federal prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega makes clear in her new book United...
Updated at 10:59 p.m. EST, Dec. 1, 2006 As Italian troops left Iraq for good today, 68 Iraqis were killed and another 164 wounded in violent events across the country. U.S. authorities announced the death of a soldier on Thursday, and a prominent Iraqi soccer official...
NEW DELHI - At the end of an important week-long visit by Chinese President Hu Jintao to South Asia, what does the complicated triangular relationship among Beijing, New Delhi, and Islamabad, three of Asia's four nuclear powers, look like? Going by conventional...
Initial press reports on information provided to the Senate by Robert Gates, President George W. Bush's nominee for the post of defense secretary, show Gates hewing very closely to the rhetoric of his predecessor. Gates is more parrot than innovator in his responses...
Despite a growing and virtually universal consensus both in America and abroad that the United States must engage Syria and Iran if it hopes to stabilize Iraq, U.S. President George W. Bush appears determined to ignore Baghdad's two key neighbors as long as possible....
A coalition of U.S. peace groups is pressing ahead with plans for what it hopes will be a massive march on Washington Jan. 27, even though newly released documents show the antiwar community is under Pentagon surveillance. "The peace and justice movement helped make...
