The Iraq war began about one year ago with the swift and decisive overthrow of Baghdad and the Hussein regime. We are only beginning to understand, however, the true scope of our ongoing occupation of a nation rife with civil, ethnic, and tribal conflict. July stands...
http://www.independent.org/tii/antiwar/e040322.html
Organizers of the March 20 Crawford, Texas Peace Rally wanted to broaden their line up from the usual antiwar sources to include clergy, antiwar military veterans and their families, and yes, even an antiwar Republican. It was for the latter reason that I was one of...
The Iraq War: Is the United States Better Off? Though I found Dr. Moore's argument sound and convincing in the above article, I must take exception to the following paragraph: "Then there are King Fahd and Prince Abdullah (Saudi Arabia), Than Shwe (formerly...
A year has elapsed since President Bush ordered U.S. forces to invade Iraq. Since that March day, 2003, it has become clear as crystal: Operation Iraqi Freedom was an unnecessary war. Saddam had had no role in 9-11 or the anthrax attack, no plans to attack us or to...
Taiwan had a chance to prove to the world, and most of all to China, that a free democratic election is a just and righteous method for choosing leaders. That chance was blown, and now with angry opposition protests raging across the island screaming "invalid" and...
So Spain is pulling out of Iraq, and Poland may be close behind. So what? What have Spain, Poland, or any of the other coalition countries besides the United States and United Kingdom done, anyway? This may only be my inner chauvinist talking, but I doubt that...
In today's world, where state-worship is the secular faith of our age, and the idea that "the government will take care of it" is the centerpiece and source of all political discourse, the revelations of Richard Clarke, former terrorism czar, are nothing less than...
"Big events like last year's antiwar demonstrations on February 15 would exist even without the Internet, but they would be much smaller," says Lorenzo Mosca, a researcher from the University of Florence on civil society's use of new technologies. "New...
One year after the U.S.-led attack on Iraq, civilians are seeing some improvements in human rights but violence is endemic and many people live in fear for their safety, says a report by Amnesty International (AI). Based on a series of visits to Iraq over the past...
