BAGHDAD - An eyewitness commentary to IPS through a U.S. raid on a Baghdad mosque Friday gives a vivid picture of what a "successful raid" can be like. U.S. soldiers raided the Abu Hanifa mosque in Baghdad during Friday prayers, killing at least four and...
Congress is once again engaging in fiscal irresponsibility and endangering the American economy by raising the debt ceiling, this time by $800 billion dollars. One particularly troubling aspect of today's debate is how many members who won their seats in part by...
To get your support for the application of the Bush Doctrine to Iraq last year, the neo-crazies claimed to have slam-dunk intelligence that Saddam had secretly reconstituted his uranium-enrichment program and would, therefore, soon have nukes to give to terrorists....
With all of the political hoopla and heifer dust that is spread about the Middle East, you might think we are totally dependent on Middle Eastern oil. Actually, we are not. The United States imports about 62 percent of its oil and other petroleum products. Only about...
HELSINKI - To human rights activists, Turkmenistan is a "black hole" because little of its human rights violations is known to the outside world. Things are not much better in neighboring Uzbekistan. Its 26 million people have only restricted political...
BAGHDAD - Journalists are increasingly being detained and threatened by the U.S.-installed interim government in Iraq. Media have been stopped particularly from covering recent horrific events in Fallujah. The "100 Orders" penned by former U.S. administrator...
We had our daily car bomb today when a suicide bomber drove his car into a U.S. patrol as it passed near the Yarmouk police station. Several Iraqis were killed, with no report yet on U.S. casualties. I felt the rumble even though I was on a street far away from the...
While after a week of personnel announcements conventional wisdom appears to have concluded that the foreign policy of President George W. Bush's second term will be at least if not more radical than the first, there is also a minority view that such a conclusion is...
The United States is in dire straits. Its government is in the hands of people who connect to events neither rationally nor morally. If President Bush's neoconservative administration were rational, the U.S. would never have invaded Iraq. If Bush's government were...
When misleading buzzwords become part of the media landscape, they slant news coverage and skew public perceptions. That's the story with the phrase "Iraqi forces" – now in routine use by U.S. media outlets, including the country's most influential...
