The other day, something quite remarkable happened. Ever since the election, news anchors warned of the "coming assault on Fallujah," the "final clampdown," the "major military offensive" that would put an end to the resistance in that city. Dire warnings were made...
There Is No One Left to Stop ThemThanks to Paul Craig Roberts (no relation) for his courageous honesty and intellectual and moral clarity. Remembering his Wall Street Journal pieces (why don't they bring him back now?), and in light of my own history of protest, I...
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Along with Jack Shafer of Slate, Michael Massing was one of the first media critics to take on our imperial press for the shameful way it caved to the Bush administration in covering the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. He did so in two devastating critiques in the New...
PARIS - The differences between France and Iraq entered a new phase at the summit that began at the Egyptian resort Sharm el-Sheikh Monday. Differences are emerging starkly despite conciliatory statements from both sides. The meeting is bringing together members of...
The coalition of foreign-policy hawks that promoted the 2003 invasion of Iraq is pressing President George W. Bush to adopt a more coercive policy toward North Korea, despite strong opposition from China and South Korea. By most accounts, North Korea ranked high in...
When President Bush needed a rationale for invading Iraq, he told Congress that Saddam Hussein posed "a continuing threat to the national security of the United States" by "actively seeking a nuclear weapons capability, and supporting and harboring terrorist...
Though recent American presidents have pursued a policy of global hegemony, the Bush administration has pursued world dominance with a vengeance. The administration's National Security Strategy, for example, calls for preemptive wars against potential threats to...
"Flow like the blood of Abraham through the Jews and the Arabs, Broken apart like a woman's heart abused in a marriage." The world is upside down, taking a breath before the next episode. We have four more years of unbridled uncontested Imperial rule,...
The NewStandard BAGHDAD - While debate continues in the United States about how best to manage the occupation and nation-building of Iraq, the ideas of Iraqis on the matter of what is to happen in their country have been all but completely muted in the West. Iraqis...
