My fellow Americans, I’m angry. My blood started bubbling when I read that our government is still paying $340,000 per month to Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmed Chalabi. Chalabi, who calls himself a "hero in error" for spreading distortions that midwifed a...
A year after we allowed ourselves to be lied into war with Iraq, what have we got to show for it? Rising casualties, including at least two inflicted by U.S.-trained and subsidized Iraqi police. As many as 10,000 wounded. A bill, so far, of over $100 billion, amid...
Washington's policymakers might believe they have scored a diplomatic coup of sorts in South Asia by reportedly reaching a deal with Pakistan to allow US troops to be deployed in Pakistan to hunt down Osama bin Laden. This deal with Pakistan President Gen. Pervez...
Southeast Asian regimes known for their human rights violations are receiving a reminder here of how close the US government is to marching in their step, including having the habit of detaining without trial people deemed to be national security threats. On Friday, a...
More than two million people defied the cold and the heavy rain in the Spanish capital Friday, and millions of others came out in the streets all around the country to protest the terrorist attacks on commuter trains in Madrid that left 199 dead and 1,463 injured...
Last month, Judge G. Mallon Faircloth sentenced me to three months in prison for participating in a November, 2003 peaceful protest, organized by the School of the Americas Watch (SOAW), at Fort Benning, GA. During three days of trial, 27 activists offered moving...
To encourage restraint in war coverage, governments don't need to shoot journalists – though sometimes that's helpful. Thirteen journalists were killed while covering the war and occupation in Iraq last year, says a new report by the Committee to Protect...
A total of 36 journalists were killed as a direct result of their work during 2003, almost double the death toll of 19 in 2002, according to the latest in an annual series of reports on 'Attacks on the Press' released today by the New York-based watchdog, the...
A cornered rat will fight to the death, squealing and clawing and baring its yellowed fangs – just like Max Boot in today's (Thursday's) Los Angeles Times, who lashes out at war opponents with rat-like ferocity. He doesn't say they're wrong, he doesn't dispute...
The U.S.-backed government in Kabul is facing large-scale desertions by western-trained local security forces as it tries to establish a safe environment in the run-up to scheduled June elections. The success of the upcoming vote has been predicated primarily on the...
