How Strong Do We Look Now?

Reuters reports that Dick Cheney was doing some counter-programming to the Democratic National Convention by speaking on the West Coast at Camp Pendleton. He said, "Terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength. They are invited by the perception of...

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Israel’s Bedouin Losing Ground

JERUSALEM - Going south deep into the heart of Israel's Negev desert, small Bedouin villages sprout in the distance. They seem peaceful and majestic in the desert heat, cut into the landscape dotted with shacks for living quarters and tents constructed with burlap and...

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The Choice: Bush’s Empire or Kerry’s

With foreign policy becoming the big issue of the 2004 U.S. elections, predictions that Democrats would invoke the "successes" of Clintonian interventions, particularly in the Balkans, seem to be coming true. But though Bosnia and Kosovo don't seem to figure...

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Colombia: Paramilitary Commanders Address Congress

BOGOTA - Three senior paramilitary leaders wanted for mass killings of civilians and drug trafficking addressed a congressional hearing in Colombia Wednesday while protesters and supporters clashed outside. Although previous Colombian governments have stuck to the...

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Bush Resists Pressure to Meddle in Sudan – for Now

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Bush administration continues to refrain from calling a campaign of ethnic cleansing against black Africans in Sudan's western Darfur province "genocide," although both houses of the U.S. Congress approved non-binding resolutions last week that...

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A Party of Cowards

It's a shame, really, that John Kerry isn't taking full advantage of the war issue to make his case for regime change in Washington. Opining that he would have gone to war in a different way, on a different timetable, just doesn't cut it. Many of his most high-profile...

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Iraq War Straining US-Turkey Ties

While the image of the United States has sunk to an all-time low in the Arab world, the Iraq war has also had a devastating impact on U.S. ties to another predominantly Muslim power and one of Washington's closest and most strategically situated Cold War allies,...

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No Troops Yet Offered for UN Force in Iraq

UNITED NATIONS - The dramatic increase in kidnappings of foreign nationals in Iraq is threatening to undermine the creation of a new multinational security force aimed at protecting UN employees and humanitarian workers who are planning to return to the...

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Backtalk July 28, 2004

Shop Antiwar.com I am a huge fan of your site and visit it frequently. Today was my first visit to the shop and I liked what I saw. However, I have a request to make. I would like to see some black colored T-shirts with your logo. I am a member of the U.S. military...

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