On Wednesday, June 23, 2004, the U.S. House of Representatives, in an overwhelming bipartisan vote, endorsed right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharons efforts to colonize and annex large sections of the Palestinian West Bank, seized by Israel in the June...
Where Children Laugh at Bombs
From Dahr's weblog How much worse does it need to get here before the occupiers consider changing their policy? 100 dead every day? In light of what happened here yesterday, it appears as though we're heading in that direction. For those of you who think June 30 will...
In Your Ear, Bolton
It hasn't been a good week for Undersecretary of State Bolton. Some of the eggs he's laid in the past year or so hatched as turkeys and have come home to roost. Back in October of 2002, one of Bolton's munchkins claimed he had accosted a Democratic People's Republic...
New Accord a Modest Step to Ease Nuke Danger
NEW DELHI Six years after they blasted their way into the world's nuclear club, India and Pakistan have taken some welcome, if tentative, steps in recent days toward nuclear-risk reduction and confidence-building, which they say would "promote a stable...
US Device Seen at Iran Nuclear Site
According to the U.S. government, these before and after satellite images from Iran are evidence of nuclear activity and a subsequent cover-up. Ironically, the accusation is based on the identification of a U.S.-made radiation monitor at the site.
Bush Gives Realism a Chance
Two weeks after compromising with its traditional allies on the wording of a key UN Security Council resolution on Iraq, U.S. foreign policy under George W. Bush appears to be moving further toward the more realist policies of his father in other areas as well. Few...
‘This Is the Freedom’
From Dahr's blog Mohammed works at our hotel. He just came up to deliver our laundry. When we asked how he was doing, he took off his sunglasses to show us a black eye. "Not so good," he said. Someone was drinking beer outside the hotel last night, and when Mohammed...
Baquba Sealed off as US Loses Control
BAQUBA Just six days before Iraq's interim government is to gain partial sovereignty from the U.S., resistance fighters launched a series of coordinated attacks against U.S. forces and Iraqi government targets in Baghdad, Mosul, Ramadi and Baquba today. Fierce...
The Neocons Earn an ‘F’
When an off-Broadway show opened a few seasons ago with the deliciously relevant title, Now That Communism is Dead My Life Feels Empty, it made me think of the bright, clever neoconservatives I have known. Looking back, many of their prominent publications and groups...
Another Blow to Sri Lanka’s Battered Peace Process
COLOMBO A Sri Lankan parliamentarian's admission that he helped breakaway Tamil Tiger leader Karuna is the latest setback to the country's fragmented peace process, already reeling under charges that the government is stoking unrest among the rebels The...


