Another blow has been dealt to the United States and its efforts to realign Iraq's oil industry after a series of attempted suicide boat bomb attacks on Saturday on the key oil facility at Khor al-Amaya and on four oil tankers waiting to load at the main Basra...
A U.S. military helicopter flies over the municipal building in the predominantly Shia Baghdad neighborhood Kadamiya. A U.S. trained Iraqi soldier stands guard. The guard says he signed up in the new Iraqi Army to keep Baghdad safe from looters and thieves, but that...
Americans, instead of acting like sheep, ought to start thinking of a peaceful world and how we might attain it. It is possible. The benefits of peace would be enormous. The conflict currently being used to sustain America's vast empire (more than 700 foreign military...
A new poll shows that as of mid-March, 57% of Americans believed that Saddam Hussein had given substantial support to al-Qaeda. Worse, 45% actually say that "clear evidence" has been found in Iraq to support this allegation! As for weapons of mass destruction 45...
Will President Bush share with the American people the reason he is planning a long term American military occupation of Iraq? You ask, "Isn’t the occupation scheduled to end on June 30 when we hand rule over to a provisional government?" Not on your...
Consider two bits of news for April 23, 2004: First, we learn that the White House has issued on this Friday a stern warning to Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that he must abide by a past promise not to harm Palestinian President Yasser Arafat after Sharon...
Editor's Note: This is the first part of a speech given at the Libertarian Party of New York state convention, on April 24. The second part will appear on Friday. The neoconservative propagandists who tirelessly called for the invasion of Iraq, who agitated for it...
Alright, listen up, warmongers. I've decided to help you. No, really. You can thank me later. I'm not doing this out of any sympathy, or because you shamed me into it. As a friend put it several months ago, Iraq is "your goddamn mess – you be constructive." He...
The recent release on April 22 of Mordechai Vanunu from an Israeli prison provides an opportunity to challenge the US policy of supporting Israel's development of nuclear weapons while threatening war against other Middle Eastern states for simply having the potential...
The basic flaw in the neoconservative ideology is that democracy cannot be imposed on other people at the point of a gun. Furthermore, if neoconservatives came from an American tradition rather than a Trotskyite tradition, they would understand that America itself is...
