"The soldiers are doing strange things in Fallujah," said one of my contacts in Fallujah who just returned. He was in his city checking on his home and just returned to Baghdad this evening. Speaking on condition of anonymity, he continued, "In the...
US Citizen Tortured in Saudi Arabia at US Govt’s Behest?
NEW YORK - Human rights groups are rallying behind a Virginia student who has been held without charges in a Saudi Arabian jail since June 2003, allegedly at the behest of the U.S. government. In court proceedings brought by the student's family, a U.S. federal judge...
Exporting Democracy
or Terrorism?
Iran's defense minister was pretty cocky the other day: "'We are able to say that we have strength such that no country can attack us because they do not have precise information about our military capabilities due to our ability to implement flexible strategies,'...
US Foreign Policy: Question All Assumptions
http://www.independent.org/tii/antiwar/e050118.html
A Matter of Conscience
Having watched and observed life from the standpoint of a soldier for 10 years of my life, I always felt there was no higher honor than to serve my country and defend the values that established this country. My family has a history of serving this country dating back...
Bush Uses Tsunami Aid to Regain Foothold in Indonesia
Besides improving Washington's image in South and Southeast Asia, the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush is hoping to achieve something more concrete from its aid efforts in the aftermath of the Dec. 26 tsunami that killed over 175,000 people along the...
Jayson Blair Was Nothing
Saul Landau interviews Princeton professor emeritus Richard Falk, co-author of The Record of the Paper: How the New York Times Reports U.S. Foreign Policy (Verso). Check out Saul's other interviews. Mid Bandwidth (for cable or DSL modems) Low Bandwidth (for dial-up...
Iranian Nobel Laureate in Showdown With Conservatives
Almost exactly 40 years after Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, in recognition of his nonviolent struggle for civil rights in the United States, another Nobel Peace laureate, Shirin Ebadi, said she was ready to be arrested...
Destroying Babylon
The onslaught of Mosul has begun, as occupation forces are launching attacks into Iraq's third-largest city. While there are mass resignations of police and elections polling staff there, yet another new police chief has been awarded control of the 1,000-strong police...
The New American Militarism
Americans have been betrayed. Sooner or later, Americans will realize that they have been led to defeat in a pointless war by political leaders who they inattentively trusted. They have been misinformed by a sycophantic corporate media too mindful of advertising...


