The publics of India and China believe that each of their respective nations currently exercise global influence second only to the United States, whose relative power, although still unmatched, is on the wane, according to a major opinion survey [.pdf] released...
Iraq: The Hidden Horror
The new study estimating that 650,000 Iraqis have died as a result of the U.S. invasion was naturally dismissed out of hand in Washington and London and disdained by the War Party's pet pundits. My favorite comment came from the president, who announced:...
Friday Attacks Leave 112 Iraqis, 1 GI, 2 British Contractors Dead
Updated 11:00 p.m. EDT, Oct. 13, 2006 At least 115 people have died and 39 others were wounded during continuing violence in Iraq. Among the dead are two British contractors, the head of a special operations unit, and a religious leader. Among the injured are 12...
Why We Still Fight
At least 32 American troops have been killed in Iraq this month. Approximately 300 have been wounded. The "battle for Baghdad" is going nowhere. A Marine friend just back from Ramadi said to me, "It didn't get any better while I was there, and it's not going to get...
Iraq Brings Wounds That Deepen With Time
A new report in this month's issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry finds that while a high percentage of soldiers returning from Iraq suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), many do not show symptoms right away. "We can only speculate about why...
Bush Has Achieved
America’s Demise
When does "collateral damage" so dwarf combatant deaths that war becomes genocide? Bush's illegal invasion of Iraq has cost 655,000 Iraqis their lives. That is the conclusion of a study financed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for International...
Jim Baker, Savior?
For the many, many foreign policy experts who have reached an advanced state of despair over the ever-plunging image and influence of the United States after nearly six years of the presidency of George W. Bush, the name James Baker III has an almost talismanic...
157 Iraqis, 2 Americans Killed Across Iraq on Thursday
Updated 10:45 p.m. EDT, Oct. 12, 2006 Today in Iraq, one American army contractor was reported to have died and two others were injured in a roadside bomb attack. U.S. military authorities are also reporting that one soldier was killed and two injured in Kirkuk,...
A New Kind of Neocon?
Nikolas Gvosdev, editor of the National Interest, a foreign-policy magazine affiliated with the Nixon Center in Washington, D.C., has recently been trying to revitalize the stale discourse on U.S. global strategy in the capital of the world's only remaining...
How Not to Handle
Iran’s Nuke Aspirations
The nuclear test by North Korea has created a major tremor among Bush administration officials and the Democrats. The brunt of the debate is whether the Bush administration or the Clinton administration is responsible for Kim Jong-Il's latest move. Sen. Hillary...


