‘Hello, I’m Israeli-Palestinian’

Ali Jarbawi has long seen the creation of two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side, as the best solution to the Middle East conflict. But the professor of political science from Bir Zeit university in the West Bank is not sure any more. Jarbawi believes...

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Haiti Unrest Spells Trouble for Aristide, Bush

A spreading and increasingly violent rebellion against Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is destabilizing the Caribbean nation in ways that could move it to the top of Washington's foreign-policy. U.S. officials are deeply concerned that the violence, if not...

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Watching Propaganda Become Truth

In 1961, I returned from the Soviet Union with a collection of propaganda posters. I used the posters to illustrate to students how government in a closed society can substitute propaganda for fact. The most dramatic poster in my collection depicts a fascist who...

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Casualties I think that the reported deaths in Iraq are just a cover-up of what is really happening there and how many are really dying. Who is keeping in track of those who have been seriously injured by bombs, motors, etc., and have died in the hospital 2 or 3 or 4...

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Sharon’s Escape from Alcatraz

Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes (I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts) -Virgil Sharon's recently announced intention to unilaterally evacuate the occupied Gaza Strip did come as a surprise. Up to the last couple of months, the so-called founding father of Jewish...

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Terror by Another Name

If a "rogue nation" or swarthy men with foreign accents did it, we know what we'd call it. What the world's most powerful military did to the village of Abou Siffa must be called the same thing: terrorism. A small citrus grove was the last stop on our tour...

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The President Speaks

As George W. Bush stumbled, mumbled, and grumbled his way through a special edition of Meet the Press with Tim Russert, an unspoken question kept rising above his droning voice: is this stammering dolt really the President of the United States? On the Missing WMD...

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Co-Chair of Bush Iraq Panel Part of Neocon Network

President George W. Bush's choice to co-chair his commission to investigate intelligence failures prior to the Iraq War is a longtime, right wing political activist closely tied to the neo-conservative network that led the pro-war propaganda campaign. Federal appeals...

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Bulgaria Moves from Backyard to Frontline

Bulgarians were not expecting that some of them would die in action alongside coalition forces in Iraq long before they could join NATO. Six Bulgarian soldiers were killed and 27 wounded in a major suicide attack in Iraq late December. Around 500 Bulgarian troops...

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