Despite White House efforts to put an end to the controversy, the battle over the fate of Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld shows little sign of abating. And the outcome, which is by no means certain, could well determine the trajectory of U.S. policy in key areas –...
Editor's note: Justin Raimondo is traveling. His column will be back Friday. The news that a group of retired generals have come out front and center against the war strategy of this administration ought to be – and is – music to the ears of the antiwar...
Beneath the bellows over Iran and the mayhem in Iraq, the real struggle for Mideast dominance quietly unfolds. As petrostates around the globe exert increasing command over their energy assets, Iraq is on the verge of ceding theirs to the control of American and...
You can count on one thing. All over Washington, Republicans are at least as capable as I am of watching and interpreting the polling version of the smashup of the Bush administration. With each new poll, the numbers creep lower yet. Presidential approval in the...
On March 23, columnist Cal Thomas published a column titled "Blair and Bush Get It." What, in Thomas' opinion, do they get? The idea that the U.S. and British governments should keep troops in Iraq until, in his words, "the task is done." Interestingly,...
Top Iraq War Commander Reveals Rift with Rumsfeld on Insurgents Gareth Porter A military assessment of the Iraqi insurgency in late 2004 concluded that it had the active support of millions of Sunnis who rejected the legitimacy of a U.S. installed government,...
In the first part of his unique history of the car bomb, "The Poor Man's Air Force," Mike Davis (author of the only significant book on the Avian flu, The Monster at Our Door, and Planet of Slums, a startling analysis of the way significant parts of our planet have...
In just two weeks, six retired U.S. Marine and Army generals have denounced the Pentagon planning for the war in Iraq and called for the resignation or firing of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, who travels often...
If you haven't already read Seymour Hersh's stunning article, "The Iran Plans," in the New Yorker magazine about President Bush's plans to preemptively "take out" what the Israelis claim is an Iranian secret nuke-oriented uranium-enrichment program, you'd better do it...
with Arkan Hamed BAGHDAD - As sectarian killings continue to rise in Iraq, the central morgue in Baghdad is unable to keep up with the daily influx of bodies. The morgue is receiving a minimum of 60 bodies a day and sometimes more than 100, a morgue employee told IPS...
