TomPaine.com blogger Robert Dreyfuss talks with Scott Horton about the Israeli spy scandal and the neoconservatives behind it. Interview conducted Sept. 4, 2004. Listen to Streaming Audio Download MP3 Robert Dreyfuss is a freelance writer based in Alexandria,...
NAIROBI - Sudan's government has launched a scathing attack on the United States, accusing it of spearheading a campaign to have the United Nations apply sanctions against Khartoum over the crisis in Darfur. "The question of sanctions will be the continuity of...
A 10-member international task force of prominent analysts and former diplomats has warned that recommendations by a special commission on the Bush administration's plans for Cuba, released last May, "will poorly serve U.S. interests in Cuba and the wider region". In...
NEW DELHI – As attacks against the media in the disturbed Himalayan kingdom of Nepal continue unchecked, international media organization Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) warns this will impact independent reporting in the region. The organization is supporting...
Sgt. Samuel Provance sealed his fate as a soldier on May 21, 2004, when he went on record with ABC News. His experiences as a U.S. Army junior noncommissioned officer since committing one of the greatest imaginable mistakes in service – speaking out to the news...
Adding their voice to a steadily growing clamor, eight retired generals and admirals have called on President George W. Bush to appoint a bipartisan, independent commission to conduct a comprehensive investigation of U.S. detention and interrogation practices in Iraq,...
ROME - Without being exactly encouraging, the Italian peace movement had been sympathetic toward the resistance in Iraq. Not any more. The Stop the War coalition, which brings together several non-governmental organizations (NGOs), is still calling for...
This afternoon I learned that my friends, Raad and Simona, were abducted (along with another Iraqi and another Italian) from their Bridges to Baghdad office in Baghdad. This did not come as quite the shock it might have because recently Raad had emailed our mutual...
Pat Buchanan spoke with Bill Maher on Sept. 3 about Iraq and the "War on Terror." The following is a transcript from Real Time With Bill Maher. MAHER: First of all, if Osama bin Laden was captured and killed today, it would have the same effect on terrorism...
It may not have been obvious in the beginning, when the smoldering ruins of the Towers in New York and the burning ring of the Pentagon loomed large in people’s minds, but the war that followed Black Tuesday three years ago was doomed from the start. For a brief...
