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...
Iraq Uncensored
Scott Horton interviews reporter Dahr Jamail live from Baghdad about the real Iraq, a land of rampant murder, kidnapping, and media repression. Interview conducted Nov. 20, 2004. Check out Scott's other interviews with prominent antiwar and libertarian figures....
Won’t Get Fooled Again?
It is not yet Bush's second term. All available U.S. troops are tied down in Iraq by a few thousand lightly armed insurgents. Go-it-alone Bush has isolated America from her allies. And the neocons want to spread their war to Iran. The Bush administration is recycling...
Road to Peace Is Still Long in Kashmir
NEW DELHI When it comes to Kashmir there can be no pleasing of anyone, as Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh must surely have discovered during a two-day visit, this week, to the state troubled by 15 years of separatist insurgency and half-a-century-old...
Defense Ministers Reject Intervention in Colombia
QUITO - The final declaration of the sixth conference of western hemisphere defense ministers, which ended Friday in the Ecuadorian capital, did not include several of the proposals set forth by the United States and seconded by Colombia. During the meeting, the gap...
‘Axis of Evil’ Is Uninvited Guest at APEC
SANTIAGO - North Korea, Iran, and Iraq, the countries that U.S. President George W. Bush labeled the "axis of evil" in early 2002, are the main unofficial issues being discussed at the 12th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, which opened...
Draining the Swamp
"'We didn't go in with a plan. We went in with a theory,' said a veteran State Department officer who was directly involved in Iraq policy… The Bush administration's failure to plan to win the peace in Iraq was the product of many of the same problems that...
Eyewitness to US Forces Raiding a Mosque
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...
Raising the Debt Limit: A Disgrace
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...
Uranium-Enrichment Myths Busted
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....


