Six years ago, in February 1998, I traveled to Iraq with a British Voices in the Wilderness team. The US was threatening another massive bombardment. We decided to go to Fallujah in hopes of better understanding the perspective of people whose marketplace had been...
The New Saddam
With Saddam captured, and the U.S. squaring off against a faceless enemy in Iraq, it was necessary to create a new demon figure, and the occupiers couldn't have done a better job of it if they had gone to Central Casting: Moqtada al-Sadr is a radical, he's got a big...
Collateral Damage in Bush’s Wars
An interview conducted by "Philip Dru." Check out his other interviews with prominent libertarians and antiwar personalities. Recorded April 3rd, 2004 WMV format (requires Windows Media Player) MP3 format (download requires any MP3 player)Matthew Barganier writes the...
Collateral Damage in Bush’s Wars
An interview conducted by "Philip Dru." Check out his other interviews with prominent libertarians and antiwar personalities. Recorded April 3rd, 2004 WMV format (requires Windows Media Player) MP3 format (download requires any MP3 player)Matthew Barganier writes the...
The Long Ignominious Slide to Defeat in Iraq
http://www.independent.org/tii/antiwar/e040406.html
Shi’ite Uprising Signals Double Trouble for US
With U.S. Marines effectively locking down the defiant city of Fallujah in the rebellious "Sunni Triangle," other US military forces in Iraq opened a new front Monday to quash an apparent uprising by a Shiite militia in Baghdad and the south, in what some...
US Defense of Israeli Assassinations Is Counterproductive
The U.S. veto of a proposed UN Security Council resolution criticizing Israel's March 22 assassination of Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin has once again placed the United States both on the fringe of international public opinion and in opposition to international...
Don’t Expand NATO!
Further expansion of NATO, an outdated alliance, is not in our national interest and may well constitute a threat to our national security in the future. More than 50 years ago the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed to defend Western Europe and the United...
Does the US Have the Will to Win?
Would that mob in Fallujah have dared treat the security men of Saddam the way they treated those Americans? Would they have danced and shouted, "Death to Saddam," as they did "Death to Bush"? No way. For every one in those TV pictures and photos would now be in an...
Chinese Generalizations
In my last column, I made some broad generalizations about Chinese and China. One of the points of the column was to show that Chinese businessmen make decisions based on guanxi. Any businessman or any foreigner for that matter has a collection of...


