The looming conflict between Iran and the United States has a nightmarish quality about it: it is like one of those dreams in which a horrific series of events is endlessly reenacted, while the dreamer is powerless to stop it. You scream and nothing comes out. It is a...
Paris Accord, the Sequel
According to numerous reports, President Bush while at a meeting with leaders of the European Union last week gave the mullahs an ultimatum: last week. "If Iran's leaders want peace and prosperity and a more hopeful future for their people, they...
Saddam’s Execution Likely, Fair Trial Less So
With Omar Abdullah BAGHDAD - The trial of Iraq's former president Saddam Hussein has been wracked with controversy and spectacle. Now entering its final phase, the question for all Iraqis and the world is whether he will be executed for the deaths of 148 Shi'ites,...
Pentagon Resists Ban on ‘Degrading Treatment’
As new reports detail further abuse by the U.S. military of its prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan, a behind-the-scenes battle is being fought between the U.S. Departments of State and Defense about whether a key section of the Geneva Conventions should be included in...
Defying US Deadline, Iran Recalls an EU Stall
Iran's announcement that it will not respond to the formal negotiating offer from the six powers until late August was both an expression of confidence and a bit of payback for European stalling in responding to Iran in 2005. By refusing to comply with a June 29...
Give Iran Positive Incentives to Halt Its Nuclear Program
The United Nations Security Council recently sent Iran a package of incentives to encourage that nation to halt its nuclear program. The proposals included selling Iran light-water nuclear technology, civilian aircraft, and spare parts. Although the United States...
The Ideology of Occupation Revisited
The history of occupation is not just that of Palestinian suffering and Israeli aggression; it is also the history of its ideology, the history of the fictions the Israeli society fabricates in order to justify its major colonial project which has just entered its...
Fool Me Twice
A date to remember will be the night of June 20, 2006. That's the night Congress was fooled for the second time. Remember October 2002 and Iraq? So much has happened since then that it seems like ancient history. Or at least that is what the Bush administration would...
Standing With GIs Who Resist
One of the most powerful group of voices in opposition to the occupation of Iraq are U.S. soldiers who come home and speak out. In particular, those who become so disillusioned and disgusted by the Iraq occupation that they refuse to return provide a special power...
The Empire at Bay
Sunday's headlines on Antiwar.com pretty much summed up the looming defeat of America's imperial ambitions, detailing in descending order the series of setbacks that have stunned the architects of our would-be "benevolent global hegemony" and stopped them in their...


