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To avoid the failure of its mission in Iraq, the George W. Bush administration has been driven to seek the help of two major enemies – the Sunni insurgents and the government of Iran – but both initiatives have failed to make progress because officials were not given any real negotiating authority. U.S. officials in … Continue reading “Bush Seeks His Enemies’ Help in Iraq”

UNITED NATIONS – Amid charges of waste, fraud, and malfeasance in its multi-billion-dollar peacekeeping operations, the United Nations has suspended one contractor and eight staff members pending further investigations into potential wrongdoing. The focus of the investigation is procurement, which, according to one UN source, could emerge as a major financial scandal in the history … Continue reading “UN Probes Peacekeeping Contracts Fraud”

MoveOn.org Surrenders I agree with your statements 100%. As a progressive lesbian feminist, I would never have dreamed I would be opposed to a Hillary Clinton presidential candidacy. But my antiwar sentiments trump everything, and I would not vote for Hillary if she were running for dog catcher. As for MoveOn, they will not get … Continue reading “Backtalk January 16, 2006”

Despite objections by major Jewish organizations in Venezuela and the United States, some influential U.S. neoconservatives are charging President Hugo Chavez with anti-Semitism, which they say is consistent with the country’s friendly relations with Iran. In what appears to be a new line of attack against the populist leader, two of the White House’s favorite … Continue reading “US Neocons Accuse Chavez of Anti-Semitism”

The administration of President George W. Bush has designated the spread of democracy as its principal foreign policy objective with the understanding that burgeoning democracies will make the world a better and safer place for Americans. But critics observe that democracy might not be an exportable commodity, and those who seek to impose it may … Continue reading “You Say You Want a Revolution?”

In April 2005, I posted a dispatch in which I claimed that “a senior official in one of our intelligence agencies” had slipped me an unpublished manuscript by “the president.” I added that I believed it genuine and had done my best to vet it. My source, I mentioned, had told me that the book … Continue reading “Stranger Than Fiction”

With Arkan Hamed BAGHDAD – What should have been a joyous four-day Islamic holiday for Eid al-Adha, which Iraqis began to celebrate Jan. 10, has only highlighted the suffering under U.S. occupation. The feast of sacrifice, which begins on the tenth day of the Islamic month of Dhul Hijja, is celebrated as a commemoration of … Continue reading “Fear Overshadows Eid Festival”

The neocons have insisted for years that the first shots of what they call “World War IV” have already been fired, and we are in for a new cold war (the previous one was WWIII) that is bound to turn hot. Now Niall Ferguson, the British exponent of a new American Empire, has come up … Continue reading “World War IV”

Dictatorships seldom appear full-fledged but emerge piecemeal. When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon with one Roman legion he broke the tradition that protected the civilian government from victorious generals and launched the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. Fearing that Caesar would become a king, the Senate assassinated him. From the civil … Continue reading “Bush Has Crossed the Rubicon”

There is a “revelation” in James Risen’s latest book – State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration – that is perhaps more revealing than anyone intended. According to Risen, back in February 2000, the CIA finally found a job for one of their assets – a Russian "defector," long … Continue reading “Planting Evidence”