With public support for the Iraq war at low ebb, the White House is more eager than ever to conflate Iraq's insurgency with terrorism. But last week, just after President Bush gave yet another speech repeatedly depicting the U.S. war effort in Iraq as a battle against...
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The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States – which was required, inter alia, to recommend actions the federal government should take to prevent future attacks – issued its final report 18 months ago. Its members have now issued an ad...
Editor's note: For the next week, Antiwar.com will be on the spot in Hong Kong for the Sixth World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference. This is the first in a series about the issues surrounding the conference, the people involved, and the roles played by...
Scott Horton: All right my friends, welcome to the Weekend Interview Show for December 3, 2005. I'm your host, Scott Horton. My Web site is WeekendInterviewShow.com. My first guest is the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who broke the story of the My Lai massacre,...
Leading Sunni clerics and insurgent organizations are unofficially encouraging voting by Sunnis in Thursday's parliamentary elections for a slate of candidates who are calling for a timetable for U.S. troop withdrawal. The decision to support participation in the...
As Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stilettoed her way across Europe last week answering tough questions about Washington's treatment of prisoners in the "global war on terror," 2005 may be remembered as the year "torture" and...
Last week and this one at TomDispatch are devoted to a look back at the period before and after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and at the ways in which, ever since, our world has shut itself down and sealed itself up. On that sealing up, Behzad Yaghmaian is an expert....
The spectacle of an American secretary of state being sent to Europe to reassure America's allies that the U.S. does not torture prisoners has brought an end to America's moral grandeur. America stands revealed before the world as just another unaccountable police...
European reaction to visiting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's statements on torture can be summed up in lead commentary Wednesday in the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, among the most widely respected German newspapers. Under the title "Justice à la Rice," the...
