Like JFK's assassination in 1963 and the moon landing in 1969, people remember where they were and what they were doing on Sept. 11, 2001. In my case, just a few hours before the attack, I was walking down one of the corridors of the Pentagon that was later...
Ever since the Soviet Union disintegrated, the United Nations and its enforcement agency – the Security Council – has more often than not thwarted what the neo-crazies wanted to do. In particular, in 2002 the Security Council refused to sanction Bush's...
With Ali al-Fadhily FALLUJAH - After enduring two major assaults, Fallujah is under threat from U.S. forces again, residents say. "They destroyed our city twice, and they are threatening us a third time," 52-year-old Ahmed Dhahy told IPS in Fallujah, the...
What looked like a virtually sure thing just one month ago – Senate confirmation of the Bush administration's controversial ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton – is suddenly looking unexpectedly shaky. Last week's eleventh-hour request by moderate...
My favorite war movies are the ones where people – soldiers or civilians – escape from a prison camp or a concentration camp. I saw The Great Escape when it first came out in 1963, and have seen it at least five times since. I still remember my mother, as...
The GOP, RIP I'm afraid that in his zeal to pronounce the Republican Party dead before one vote has been cast, Justin is wallowing in irrational exuberance. The GOP's obituary is premature on several counts: Fewer House races than ever before are competitive due to...
"The war we fight today is more than a military conflict," said President Bush to the American Legion. "It is the decisive ideological struggle of the 21st century." But if the ideology of our enemy is "Islamofascism," what is the ideology of George W. Bush? According...
With the collapse of the Berlin Wall, American leaders declared "victory" in the Cold War no less firmly or repeatedly than our president has promised "victory" in his Global War on Terror – no less than 12 times, in fact, in an August speech to the American...
A thousand years from now, who will observe this doleful anniversary? From that perspective, will the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history seem like a blip on the wide screen of history, or a turning point in the saga of the rising American Imperium? Although I'd be...
with Salam TalibIn Iraq, the Sunni Association of Muslim Scholars is accusing the US military of carrying out a massacre during a pre-dawn raid in a small village Northeast of Baghdad. The Association said the raid, which was carried out on Monday in Muqtadadiya, left...
