This year the Israelis and various neocrazy media sycophants have increasingly been comparing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Adolf Hitler. Thats a ridiculous comparison, of course. Irans president is almost powerless and occupies in the Iranian...
Presidential Neglect
The president concentrated so hard on the two members of his infamous "axis of evil" that didn't have nuclear weapons that he neglected the one that does. North Korea announced that it would test a nuclear weapon, and now it has done so. I'm sure the North Korean...
Hope Loses Out to Fear on Kabul Streets
(Released under agreement with The Killid Group. With reporting contributed by IPS correspondent Ann Ninan.) KABUL - Anxiety has replaced the hope of a new beginning in Afghanistan's turbulent history two years after Hamid Karzai was made president of the war-torn...
Saturday Attacks Leave 123 Iraqis, US Airman, US Marine Dead
Updated at 6:00 p.m. EDT, Oct. 14, 2006 The violence in Iraq continued late Friday and into Saturday. At least 125 were reported killed and another 19 injured. According to the U.S. military, among the wounded is a soldier who was seriously injured on Tuesday when a...
Why Bush Should (but Won’t) Be Impeached
The case for impeaching President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney is far stronger than the case against President Bill Clinton or the impending case that drove President Nixon to resign. With Republican control of Congress, especially of the House where...
N. Korean Blast May Hit Indo-US Nuclear Deal
NEW DELHI - How is North Korea's atomic explosion, signifying the latest breakout from the global nuclear restraint regime, likely to affect the preceding two breakout cases, India and Pakistan? Eight years after the two South Asian states blasted their way into the...
The Pundit Path for Death in Iraq
No one knows exactly how many Iraqi civilians have died from the war's violence since the invasion of their country. The new study from public health researchers at Johns Hopkins University estimates that the number of those deaths is around 601,000, while saying the...
Excess Death in Iraq
It is the single most important statistic regarding the illegal US invasion and occupation of Iraq. How many Iraqis have been killed? 655,000. 655,000 Iraqis killed as a result of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq. I have worked for eight months in Iraq as a...
Bush Versus Principled Conservatism
George W. Bush has been vilified by the Left, but his harshest critics should be on the Right. One of the most momentous consequences of the Bush presidency is the destruction of the philosophical core of modern conservatism. Like most political movements, American...
Bush 0-for-3 With ‘Axis of Evil’
With the testing of a nuclear device in North Korea, the foreign policy of the Bush administration, whose major aim was to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction, has descended into complete failure. In his 2002 "axis of evil" speech, the...


