KIRKUK - Kurds are declaring victory after elections in Iraq's northern oil-rich city, Kirkuk, but other groups in the multi-ethnic city are not ready to concede. Some allege massive voter fraud. "This election was done without any oversight from the United...
KIRKUK - "When someone has the power, he will take everything," says retired soldier Mohammed Hassan Mohammed in a Shia mosque in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk. Like most Shia Arabs in this oil-rich city, his family came here in the 1980s during Saddam's...
There is little doubt that George W. Bush and Natan Sharansky, a Soviet émigré who is a top political official in Israel, share a similar perspective about international affairs, especially in the Middle East. Following his inaugural address, the U.S. president said...
JERUSALEM - Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon go into Tuesday's summit in Egypt with a strong common interest – to portray their long-awaited meeting as a success – but with very different agendas. In many ways, the...
Part two of Scott Horton's discussion with former UN Iraq weapons inspector Scott Ritter about the WMD that weren't. Interview conducted Feb. 5, 2005. Check out Scott Horton's other interviews with prominent antiwar and libertarian personalities. Listen to Streaming...
As U.S. President George W. Bush last week reiterated his strong support for spreading freedom abroad, his administration was preparing to remove a major obstacle to restoring full ties with Indonesia's armed forces (TNI), widely regarded as one of the world's most...
The Dangers of Abstract Nationalism My characterization of the neocon-led Bush administration is that it is Jacobin. I characterized many of Bush's enthusiastic supporters as brownshirts because of their evident attributes: their minds are closed to facts and debate;...
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This timeless article first appeared on February 20, 2001. COLD WAR IMPERIALISM, OR ‘LEADERSHIP OF THE FREE WORLD’ With the ritual bombing of Iraq taking on symbolic importance as the first foreign policy act of any incoming US administration, it is...
Following the attempted assassination of Israel's ambassador in London in 1982, Menachem Begin and Ariel Sharon invaded Lebanon to eradicate the PLO nest of Yasser Arafat, then holed up in Beirut. Mission accomplished. The Israelis triumphed. Arafat and his PLO were...
