Antiwar.com columnist Ivan Eland explains the perilous nature of the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Interview conducted by Scott Horton. Check out Scott's other interviews with prominent libertarians and antiwar personalities. Interview from Aug. 26, 2004. Listening to...
Withdraw From the Balkans!
When Napoleon ordered the abduction and murder of a political opponent in 1804, his foreign minister, Count Talleyrand, commented: "That was worse than a crime; it was a mistake." Apparently, the wisdom of Talleyrand was not limited to the time. The public opinion in...
Lebanon the Wrong Model for Iraq
Increasingly desperate to find a winning formula in Iraq, Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials are promoting Lebanon as a political model for Iraq. Agreed, the situation in Iraq is looking more and more like Lebanon but not the...
Bush Gains on Kerry for Arab-American Vote
Despite the worsening situation in Iraq and the continued impasse between Israel and the Palestinians, U.S. President George W. Bush has cut Sen. John Kerry's previously substantial lead among Arab-American voters in four key swing states, according to a new survey...
Judge Orders Govt to Hand Over Detainee Documents
In a victory for human and civil rights groups, a federal judge has given the government 30 days to turn over or identify all documents relating to the treatment of detainees held by the United States at military bases and other detention facilities overseas,...
A Kosher-Stamp on Murder
Two shocking manifestos were published this week. Both call for comment. One of them declares that dismantling the settlements in the Gaza Strip is a "crime against humanity." It does not mention that they were set up on the land reserves of a million...
Motive for Baghdad Helicopter Massacre a Mystery
The US military has offered at least two distinct explanations for killing 13 people and wounding at least 60 others, including children, early Monday morning on Haifa Street in a residential area of central Baghdad. What the Army first explained as a routine...
Doomed to Winning Lost Victories
Last week, I attended and spoke at a conference on armor in urban operations, put on by the U.S. Army Armor School at Ft. Knox, Ky. In listening to the other presentations, the question I was asking myself was, "What are these guys learning from combat in Iraq...
Douglas Feith: Portrait of a Neoconservative
Douglas Feith serves as the number three civilian in the George W. Bush administration's Defense Department, under Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz. Undersecretary for Policy Feith previously served in the Reagan administration, starting off as Middle East...
UN Official Blames Burma’s Junta for Impoverishing Villagers
BANGKOK - A United Nations official is blaming the Burmese military government's restrictive agriculture policies for driving villages in two border regions of the country into further poverty. The government restricts the free movement of agriculture products in...


