'Shock Video: Who Shot New 9/11 Tapes?' Thanks for your article "Shock Video." My first thought when this thing hit the news was "Israel." Just shows I've been reading too much Antiwar.com. But it really does "feel" like Israel, doesn't it? While we're on the subject,...
Hundreds of civilians were killed by Coalition cluster bombs and air strikes designed to "decapitate" the Iraqi leadership, according to a new report by New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW), which said the high cost in civilian casualties caused by the...
The advocates of war in the Middle East, now in panic mode, have resorted to concocting third-rate fiction to support the occupation of Iraq. Consider this email that National Review stalwart Cliff May claimed to have gotten from a real live Iraqi [who presumably...
Iraqi intellectuals living both inside Iraq and as members of the expatriate community in Europe and North America are warning that Iraq is perilously close to a civil war in light of recent events and decrees issued by both the US Civilian Provisional Authority (CPA)...
Bill Kristol raises the dread specter of Howard Dean in the White House, and it's all because the President's hawkish impulses are being somehow subverted by out-of-line subordinates: "While Bush is committed to victory in that war, his secretary of state seems...
As the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush searches increasingly desperately for a viable "exit strategy" from an Iraqi quagmire, its policy there is appearing ever more incoherent. The latest example – and an especially spectacular one...
Much has been written lately about several attempts to craft an alternative peace plan in the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian dispute. The best known of these recent plans – the "Geneva Initiative" – was conceived and written by representatives of both sides...
Many words – and through them, concepts – have been cheapened and corrupted by their abuse in the cause of power. "Genocide" is one, used with increasing frequency in victim politics to discredit an enemy and demand assistance. "Terrorism" comes to mind...
Key U.S. civil liberties and social justice groups marked International Human Rights Day Wednesday by launching a new "US Human Rights Network" dedicated to raising awareness about international human rights standards and focusing attention on the US failure...
