The U.S. government has killed civilians for well over a century. During the Civil War, General William Tecumseh Sherman waged war on civilians in Atlanta. During the Philippine Insurrection at the turn of 20th century, U.S. forces killed about 200,000 civilians, and...
In this election year, there are significant parallels between the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 and the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. Enacted in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, the PATRIOT Act has augmented the power of federal authorities to pry into the...
DAMASCUS - George Lutfi's voice trembled with emotion as thought back of Iraq and his family there. The 32-year-old deacon of the Chaldean Solaqa Church in Baghdad fled to Syria last week after the bombings at churches in Baghdad and Mosul that killed at least 11...
MONTREAL - When U.S. Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge stood in Washington last Sunday to warn that some of the country's largest banks were being targeted by al-Qaeda terrorists, the mass media splashed the news on front pages and television screens – despite...
RAMALLAH - Another significant handshake in the history of Palestinians, not at the White House but before what remains of the Mukata'ah, the government center of the Palestinian Administration in Ramallah. The handshake at the Mukata'ah known also as 'Arafat's...
Tomorrow's Asia Cup Final football match between China and Japan promises to be an extremely tense event. Throughout the Asia Cup, the Chinese team has played in Beijing. Sold out crowds in the capital are thirsty for a victory after China's ignominious World Cup...
A couple of weeks ago, the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse Attack delivered its final report to Congress. The Commission was asked to assess – among other things – "the nature and magnitude of potential...
August 6-9 marks the 59th anniversary of the atomic bombs that obliterated the Cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the instant slaughter of over 100,000 individuals, with tens of thousands of others dying in the days that followed. People who were outside at the time...
Nearly 130 influential U.S. jurists, including twelve former federal judges and a former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), have signed a statement denouncing Bush administration memoranda regarding the treatment of Iraqi and other detainees and...
Robert Fisk is a reporter for the British newspaper The Independent. He has spent decades in the Middle East, and I know of no reporter who is his equal in that area of the world. After five weeks in Iraq, he recently reported a very pessimistic assessment of the...
