North Korea has shocked the world by detonating a nuclear explosion and making good the threat it had held out six days earlier. Pyongyang's action is one more blow to the existing global nonproliferation order and will trigger greater instability in Northeast Asia...
Partition: The Way Out of Iraq
President Bush has so badly lied himself into a corner that he now needs the bipartisan "Iraq Study Group" headed by the Bush family's fix-it man, former Secretary of State James Baker to tell the American public that things are rapidly going...
196 Killed, 45 Injured in Tuesday Iraq Violence
Updated 10:15 p.m. EDT, Oct. 10, 2006 Violence in Iraq continued Monday into Tuesday, leaving at least 196 dead and 45 injured. Included in the totals are the death of an American GI and a British security worker. One U.S. soldier was also injured. Also, a mass...
Bye-Bye, Civil Liberties
I'm still wondering where all the damn outrage is, and I'm not talking about the Foley scandal. On Sept. 29, the Senate voted 100-0 in favor of the pork-swollen Pentagon budget, which earmarked $70 billion for our ongoing military ventures in Iraq and Afghanistan....
Baquba Erupts
With Ali al-Fadhily BAQUBA - The little-known city of Baquba is emerging as one of the hotbeds of resistance in Iraq, with clashes breaking out every day. The violence in this city 30 mi. northeast of Baghdad is also now spreading elsewhere around Diyala province....
Welcome to the Nuclear Club
Moments after hearing about North Korea's nuclear test, I thought of Albert Einstein's statement that "there is no secret and there is no defense; there is no possibility of control except through the aroused understanding and insistence of the peoples of the...
The Nuclear Taboo
It's fitting, on the first anniversary of my Antiwar.com column, to go back to the first issue I wrote about: the awarding of the 2005 Nobel prize in economics to game theorist Thomas Schelling. In particular, I want to highlight Schelling's acceptance speech of Dec....
No Middle Way
With U.S. casualties rising sharply and the level of sectarian violence reaching proportions that render the "debate" over "is there a civil war yet?" patently ridiculous, the great neocon vision of a "liberated" Iraq as a beacon for the...
Monday: 73 Iraqis, 3 US Marines, US Soldier Killed; 18 Iraqis Kidnapped
Updated 10:45 p.m. EDT, Oct. 9, 2006 In Monday and overnight developments in Iraq, the main story is the poisoning of an entire police division. Also, the U.S. military today reported the deaths of three marines on Sunday and the death of one soldier on Monday. At...
Sunday: 107 Iraqis, 2 GIs Killed, Including 30 Militiamen Killed by US/Iraqi Forces
The violence in Iraq continued on Sunday and overnight Saturday leaving at least 107 dead and 70 wounded. Among the dead are two American soldiers, a senior Iraqi police official, a police chief and a Shi'ite cleric. This includes US/Iraqi fighting in Diwaniya...


