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Ramadi A Delicate Lid
The city of Ramadi, about 120km (75 mi.) west of Baghdad, appears to be much more stable than nearby Fallujah, where the U.S. military currently wont enter the city after the failed siege of April. Here U.S. military patrols still roam the streets and attacks...
The Buck Stops Where? Mr. Kaplan's article confirmed something that even I would have been hard-pressed to really believe about the government, though I don't know why it should surprise me. His reference to the March 2 NBC report that the administration...
Better to Be Children
We would do better if, instead of being sheep and complacently accepting the words of politicians as edicts from God, we were like children who always ask that innocent question, "Why?" Over and over we hear the statement "The United States cannot afford to fail in...
Skyrocketing Iraqi Anger as US Raids Sunni Mosque Fourth Time Since Invasion
As U.S. forces fought the Shia forces of Muqtada Al- Sadr in the south, they broke into the Sunni Abu Hanifa mosque in Baghdad Saturday. Amid moves by Shia and Sunni leaders to come together against the occupation, US forces have chosen to attack both at the same...
Pathological Power of Prisons: Parallel Paths at Stanford and Abu Ghraib
The horrifying photos of young Iraqi men abused by young American men and women have shocked the world in their vivid depiction of human degradation in much the same way as the explosive televised images of the terrorists destruction of the World Trade Center...
The Secret of Abu Ghraib
Thank the gods for Seymour Hersh, that's all I can say. Without him, the truth about what went on at Abu Ghraib prison and the dark forces behind it would probably still be locked away in a safe somewhere deep in the bowels of the Pentagon. His latest...
Electricity Production in Iraq Remains Below Pre-War Levels
Contrary to US President George Bush's recent statement that electricity in Iraq "is now more widely available than before the war," Iraqi officials say the power supply in their country has not yet been repaired to pre-war levels. Bush made the claim in his May 1,...
The Crimes at Abu Ghraib Are Not the Worst
Recent days have been hectic ones for the Supreme Rulers in Washington, D.C. President George W. Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld have ceased their accustomed swaggering, put on their most somber faces, and issued one apology after another for the...
End Self-Delusion
If you have any sense of justice, do not allow the United States government to make scapegoats out of a few enlisted people at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. That, of course, is exactly what Washington has in mind, and it has already begun the process. When this story...


