National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice's Asia trip produced several noteworthy developments. Although topics of conversation included trade and human rights, the talks with Chinese, Japanese and Korean officials revolved around the two major points of conflict in...
Mohamed ElBaradei – director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency – was in Israel last week pursuing a nuke-free Middle East. Now, ElBaradei has already certified Iraq to be nuke-free. And Iran. So, isn't the Middle East already nuke-free? Well,...
We're fighting a war to export "democracy" to Iraq – as U.S. government officials openly discuss the possibility of canceling the November elections. While it's no surprise that a government official of any nationality would talk out of both sides of...
Senate Iraq Report Said to Skirt White House Use of Intelligence American principles (truth, justice, responsibility) anyone? It's been quite a while since anything I've read on Antiwar.com has gotten me riled up. But today, two articles really bothered me. First, it...
After 9/11, the word of the president was supposedly the only protection that the rights and liberties of the American people needed. After 9/11, President Bush granted himself unlimited, unchecked power over anyone in the world suspected of being a terrorist. The...
A former speechwriter for President Richard Nixon thinks his old boss made a mistake when he ended the military draft in the early 1970s during the war in Vietnam. Noel Koch reports that Nixon himself came to believe he erred and “[urged] that the draft be...
Media attention in late June focused on the European Union summit in Ireland, the NATO summit in Turkey, and the surprise early transfer of "sovereignty" to the Iraqi interim government. As noteworthy as each of these might have been, equally significant events were...
A U.S. Army counterintelligence agent who accused fellow National Guardsmen of abusing Iraqi detainees says that his own commander coerced an Army psychiatrist into diagnosing him as "delusional." According to Sergeant Greg Ford, his commanding officer confronted...
I love the sharp tongue of the British. A former legal adviser to the British Foreign Office has said George Bush's war on terrorism is "legal nonsense" and confers no more power on the United States to detain people than the war against obesity. That's true. The...
LONDON - The ruling by the International Court of Justice in The Hague that the "security wall" Israel is building in the West Bank is illegal marks a major victory for Palestinians. The ruling is not binding. Officially it is termed only an "advisory...
