CAIRO - Iraq's neighbors have begun to worry seriously about its national election scheduled for Jan. 30. Almost every day, a regional leader speaks out in favor of the vote because the alternative could be worse. High-ranking officials from Egypt, Jordan, and the...
After Arafat As Oscar Wilde once said, there are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. Israel is now facing the latter tragedy. For years on end, we knew what we wanted: we wanted Arafat dead. Not that we just sat...
Will the Bush presidency end as did Wilson's? Will George W. Bush be defending to his dying day, against the pitiless evidence of events, his "global democratic revolution"? Contingent upon what happens in Afghanistan and Iraq, that may well be his fate. For, as...
BAGHDAD - The U.S. military is resorting to collective punishment tactics in Iraq similar to those used by Israeli troops in the occupied territories of Palestine, residents say. Military bulldozers have mown down palm groves in the rural al-Dora farming area on the...
"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...
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...
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,'...
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...
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...
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...
