Balkans Drama Enters Final Act Although supporters of separatist Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic celebrated victory on the evening of May 21, it took another 10 days and EU envoy Frantisek Lipka's tiebreaker vote to validate the results of the Montenegrin independence...
The takeover of Mogadishu this week by Islamic militias marks a major defeat for the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush, which had secretly backed a coalition of warlords that has reportedly been routed from the Somali capital. While the victors, the...
Secretary of State Condi Rice issued an ultimatum to Iran, last week, to give up "the pursuit of nuclear weapons." Meanwhile, the Arab League, the Gulf Cooperation Council, and the China-Arab Cooperation Forum all called for a "nuke-free" Middle...
AMMAN - These days, Ramadi is nearly impossible to enter. Against the backdrop of the Haditha massacre, IPS has received reports of civilians killed by snipers, and homes occupied with American snipers on the roof while families were detained downstairs. One man, who...
The Bush administration is congratulating itself on finally agreeing to direct talks with Iran about Iran's nuclear program. This smugness shows just how out of touch with reality the administration has become. The United States and the Europeans joining together to...
I've been thinking about Tariq Aziz a lot since the New York Times printed a front-page story on the former Iraqi deputy prime minister in late May. A color photograph showed him decked out in what the article described as "an open-necked hospital gown, with a...
The Meaning of Haditha This needs to be published on the front page of every newspaper in the U.S., read from the pulpit of every church and synagogue and in every school classroom in the land for the duration until it is as well known as the Gettysburg Address. This...
Various commentators on the network political shows on Sunday, May 28 reminded us to take some time to remember, on Memorial Day, those who had died in our current and past wars. Some even suggested that we do so at a particular time: editor Dan Henninger of the Wall...
"Two things are infinite – the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." - attributed to Albert Einstein Time moves at a less frenetic pace on C-SPAN than elsewhere on television. Last week, they showed four law professors testifying...
We expected Bill Kristol and the usual neocon suspects to dismiss the atrocities committed by U.S. troops at Haditha as nothing to get too excited about. After all, these guys don't believe in any morality but that which comes out of the barrel of a gun. So what else...
