WASHINGTON – Amid all the violence and crime that have stricken much of central and southern Iraq in recent months, the northern region of Kurdistan has remained relatively quiet. But beneath that calm, according to a new report released Tuesday by Human Rights...
Defector Dilemma Upsetting Korean Diplomacy
SEOUL - "False expectations that's how I put my life in South Korea, now," says North Korean defector Lee Min-Sun (not her real name), who works in a restaurant in the capital. "It's like a marriage to lover who makes false promises,"...
36 Ways the US Is Losing the War on Terror
Three years and half a trillion dollars later America is losing the war on terrorism. The 9/11 Commission has warned that more and worse acts of terrorism are to be expected. Bin Laden's planning always assumed that we, in reacting to him, would help him carry out his...
Wanted: An Honest Election
By morning of the day John Kerry accepted his nomination, it was clear the Kerry Party at the FleetCenter was perpetrating a fraud on the delegates and on the nation. And many in the Big Media were going along. Consider. Among the more than 4,000 delegates, two...
Survey: Iraqis Frustrated but Optimistic
Iraqis are optimistic about the future but frustrated with unreliable services like electricity, and concerned about the quality of governance, according to a major poll released here Friday. "Iraqis are hopeful about events improving, have not yet realized gains...
Allah Is the Greatest
Once you've been terrorized attacked without warning by an unknown attacker for no apparent reason you'll want to know what the terrorists hoped to accomplish by terrorizing you. The 9/11 Commission attempted to answer that question by focusing on the...
An Open Letter to the 9/11 Panel
Thomas Kean, Chairman National Committee on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States 301 7th Street, SW Room 5125 Washington, D.C. 20407 Dear Chairman Kean: It has been almost three years since the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, during which time we have been placed...
How to Help the Ayatollahs
The enemies of the ayatollahs doubtless applauded loudly earlier this week when U.S. spokesmen ventured their latest pronouncement about the status of the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK), which has long claimed to be the "official opposition" to the current regime...
Antiwar.com – ‘A Low Budget Rabblerouser’?
I had to laugh out loud when I read Adam L. Penenberg's recent piece in Wired News, bemoaning the low status of the New York Times in Google's hierarchy of knowledge: "When I googled the terms 'Iraq torture prison Abu Ghraib' – certainly one of the most...
Pentagon Learns About the Sixth Amendment
The Pentagon is learning that things work differently here in the United States than they do in Iraq. In this country, when the judiciary issues an order, the Pentagon is required to obey it. Thats why the government is now permitting Ali Saleh al-Marri to meet...


