ARBIL - In the early days of the U.S. occupation of Iraq, when the international media was discovering mass graves throughout the country, journalists of all types were documenting the full scope of the old regime's brutality. Having just arrived myself, I paid a...
ROME - It was the last dispatch sent by Italian reporter Renato Caprile before he left Baghdad last week. "Don't believe those who say the situation in Iraq can be covered from abroad," he wrote in La Republica before leaving with all other Italian...
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The State Department's decision to renew military training for Indonesia – a major step toward full normalization of military ties between the United States and the giant archipelago – has been greeted with skepticism by human rights groups and some...
"The great motorcade," wrote Canadian correspondent Don Murray, "swept through the streets of the city… The crowds … but there were no crowds. George W. Bush's imperial procession through Europe took place in a hermetically sealed environment. In Brussels it...
The Iraq war is an illusion. It is just a segment on the nightly news. The death and destruction doesn't concern us. Or so alleged all those who buried their antiwar convictions and signed on to support John Kerry in 2004. Since their pragmatic flop, the war has raged...
Releasing the latest edition of its annual human rights Country Reports, the U.S. State Department Monday hailed the progress it said had been achieved over the past year in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Ukraine. However, it also assailed North Korea, Belarus, China, Syria,...
Sex, Lies, and Jeff Gannon Dear Mr. Raimondo, I am a frequent reader of your articles and admire your writing. In your recent article, you write: "As a gay man, I can't say that I understand Gannon's appeal to his clients in the escort business – a 47-year-old...
If you go back to its Nuclear Posture Review of 2001 and its National Security Strategy of 2002, the Bush administration was then keen to posit an American-dominated globe until the end of time. According to those documents, such domination would involve allowing...
S.Y. Agnon, the famous Israeli writer, once toyed with the idea that the German culture was all but forgotten, with German scholars traveling all over the world, desperately looking for exiled German Jews who were the last to preserve the lost German culture and save...
