With Salam Talib The U.S. released three Iraqi journalists from prison over the weekend. The three were arrested together in a single sweep by U.S. troops last Wednesday. Among them, was Fadel al-Badrani, a reporter for the BBC and Reuters news agency who has reported...
US Resorting to ‘Collective Punishment,’ Iraqis Say
With Ali al-Fadhily RAMADI - U.S. forces are resorting to collective punishment of civilians in several cities across the al-Anbar province west of Baghdad, residents and officials say. "Ramadi, the capital of al-Anbar province, is still living with the daily...
What to Do About Iranian Nukes
In June, the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and China offered to provide goodies if Iran ended its nuclear program and threatened economic sanctions if it did not. Negotiations would not start until Iran suspended its enrichment of uranium. Although...
Maliki Govt Fails to Provide Security or Anything Else
BAGHDAD - The national unity government led by Shia Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has failed to deliver its promises to improve life for Iraqis. Five months after the government took over, the country still faces a rising tide of sectarian violence and inadequate...
In Defense of Pope Benedict
What is an erudite and perhaps overly scholarly pope to do in the face of a news media that insists on cherry-picking his pronouncements buried amidst references to obscure Byzantine emperors and abstruse theological constructs and making of them blazing...
The Torturer Tries to
Save His Own Hide
President George Bush, betrayed by the neoconservatives whom he elevated to power and by his attorney general, Alberto Gonzales, who gave him wrong legal advice, is locked in a desperate struggle with the Republican Congress to save himself from war crimes charges at...
‘NO USA’: Korean Farmers Continue to Protest US Base Expansion
Dozens of South Koreans took to the streets of Washington, DC Thursday in support of small farmers forced to relocate to make way for a massive new U.S. military base in their country. President George W. Bush was meeting with his South Korean counterpart just steps...
New Leaders, Similar Story at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib
Fresh allegations of brutality are being reported from inside the walls of Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, which was transferred from U.S. military to Iraqi government control on September 1st. Sa'dik al-Hasnawi, who heads up Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's offices in the...
Blasts Test India’s Counter-Terror Strategy
NEW DELHI - The three bomb explosions, which ripped through a mosque and an adjoining graveyard, killing 30 people in Malegaon in India's western state of Maharashtra on Sept. 8, have outraged the Indian public. They have also set some tough challenges before the...
Who Blew Off Bin Laden?
In its miniseries about the missteps that led to 9/11, ABC spared not only Bill Clinton but also George W. Bush. Our hawkish War President had almost nine months to respond to the USS Cole attack and did nothing, even as his security staff fired off memo after memo...


