Are the Sunni leaders in Iraq's Anbar province finally coming around to joining the U.S. counterinsurgency war? That's how the New York Times portrayed the situation last week. In an article published Sept. 18, Times reporters quoted a Sunni tribal leader in Anbar as...
The 2006 U.S. congressional elections are heating up, along with a proliferation of television ads featuring U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. "I'm a veteran," a series of plainclothes men and women say into the camera in an attack ad...
Our parent organization, the Randolph Bourne Institute, is named after an early 20th-century liberal famous for, among other things, his trenchant observation that "war is the health of the State" – a phrase that takes on quite a different connotation in our...
The neoconservative Bush administration will attack Iran with tactical nuclear weapons, because it is the only way the neocons believe they can rescue their goal of U.S. (and Israeli) hegemony in the Middle East. The U.S. has lost the war in Iraq and in Afghanistan....
John D. Negroponte, President Bush's director of national intelligence, is now busy undermining a National Intelligence Estimate that concluded that the U.S. invasion of Iraq has worsened radical Islamic terrorism around the world. He previously had approved the...
LONDON - There have been critics enough of the U.S.-led military actions under way in Afghanistan, but now military commanders too have begun to question just what they are doing in Afghanistan. Most prominently, an officer who was an aide to the British forces in...
With the U.S. intelligence community agreed that the invasion and occupation of Iraq have made this country less safe from terrorist threats, President George W. Bush appears now to be facing a growing revolt among top military commanders who say U.S. ground forces...
MOSCOW - A year after elections, little promise is in sight for the development of free and independent media in the autonomous republic of Chechnya. The republic under President Alu Alkhanov continues to suppress the few remaining opposition media, while any new ones...
The Sept. 25 edition of Time magazine illustrates how the U.S. news media are gearing up for a military attack on Iran. The headline over the cover-story interview with Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is "A Date With a Dangerous Mind." The big-type subhead...
By September 2002 every would-be mover and shaker in our nation's capital knew that Gulf War II would begin shortly after President Bush could claim, however implausibly, that international "diplomacy" had failed to get Saddam Hussein to give up his pursuit of nuclear...
