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...
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...
India-Pakistan Hope Gives Way to Uncertainty
NEW DELHI - The atmospherics still exude cordiality as India's Foreign Minister Natwar Singh rounded off his numerous meetings in Islamabad with Pakistani policymakers with a one-on-one conversation with Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf. But the initial...
Conflict Spreads Within Fatah
RAMALLAH - A bullet hole in the curtain of the television room at Palestinian opposition figure Nabil Amr's luxurious villa still attests to the shooting last Wednesday in which he was heavily wounded. Amr survived and is in hospital in Jordan, but Palestinian...
Report Omits Key Player Foreign Policy
http://www.independent.org/tii/antiwar/e040727.html
What Price Unanimity?
The 567-page final report released Thursday by the 9/11 Commission provides a wealth of data indeed, so much detail that it is easy to get lost in the trees and miss the forest. Comments by the ubiquitous commissioners over the weekend leave the impression...
Incompetent Imperialists
There is an American Empire, but we should dump it, because we Americans are woefully incompetent when it comes to maintaining empires. One mistake that seems to be a permanent feature of our foreign policy is mirror-imaging. So many American politicians, most of them...
Backtalk July 26, 2004
Daily Show with George Bush I must say I have several things in which I disagree with the Bush administration, just as I had several things I disagreed with when Pres. Clinton was in office. I am 58-years-old, follow politics on a regular basis, have watched our...
Iran’s Next
For at least two years the Bush-Cheney administration has been demanding that the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors judge Iran to be in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Should the IAEA Board make such a judgment, it would...
From China to Frankfurt
Frankfurt's Cathedral looks out over the Main River and over into Old Sachsenhausen, as it has for the past 400 years a focus point for artists and authors, medieval farmers and merchants, Cold War GIs, Turkish and Colombian bars and, most recently, East Asian...


