Washington's Foreign Policy I just want to express my profound gratitude for Antiwar.com. While I don't agree with everything everybody says. I agree strongly that we had no business sending troops to Iraq and that this administration lied about WMDs. I am a patriotic...
Jackals and Jackasses
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." – Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) Boris Tadic won the second round of the Serbian presidential elections Sunday, beating Radical rival Tomislav Nikolic by 8...
Clusters of Death
Growing international demands to suspend the use of cluster munitions, which scatter hundreds of small "bomblets" over a wide area and are blamed for thousands of civilian deaths around the world, appear to be falling on deaf ears among the governments that stockpile...
Leaving Iraq
From Dahr's weblogAbu Talat picks me up at my hotel and we're off through the uncharacteristically empty streets of central Baghdad en route to the airport. It's early enough that we drive with the windows down rather than running the air conditioner, and the warm...
A Preview of Kerry Foreign Policy
An influential Washington think tank with close ties to the Kerry presidential campaign is calling for Washington to send 25,000 more U.S. troops to Iraq, even as the U.S. supposedly gives the Iraqis more authority. In a 12-page report released as the Bush...
Three Steps to Sanity
June 28, the day in 2004 that the Americans transferred sovereignty to Iraqis and proconsul Paul Bremer hastily departed Baghdad, is a day freighted with historic significance. On June 28, 1914, 90 years before, Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip fired the shots that...
Negotiations Now!
It's summer vacation time! Yeah, one whole weekend of it. Oh well, it's better than nothing. I was going to write about how the Green Party's vice presidential candidate isn't even sure she's going to vote for herself, but, suddenly, a wave of ennui swept over me, and...
The Curse of Oil
The Bush Administration has made much of Iraq's oil reserves. It wants to use the proceeds from the sale of petroleum to pay off the country's debts, cover the costs of reconstruction and government expenses. It has been hectoring European governments and the Russian...
Supreme Court: Foreign Victims of Abuse May Sue in US
In a new rebuff to the administration of Pres. George W. Bush, a 6-3 majority of the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a 215-year-old anti-piracy law can continue to be used by foreign victims of serious human rights abuses access to U.S. courts for redress....
