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Last month the New York Times reported that unnamed senior “intelligence officials” had told them that – as part of a campaign to increase international pressure on Iran – they had “briefed” International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Mohamed El-Baradei and senior staff in mid-July on some of the sensitive “intelligence” they had gleaned from a … Continue reading “Referring Nuke-Threats to Security Council”

The “usually disengaged” president, as columnist Maureen Dowd labeled him, had just returned from a prolonged, brush-cutting Crawford vacation to much criticism and a nation in trouble. (One Republican congressman complained that “it was hard for Mr. Bush to get his message out if the White House lectern had a ‘Gone Fishing’ sign on it.”) … Continue reading “Shark-bit World”

On a Thanksgiving visit home two years ago to his family in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Jim Loney tried to explain to his father why he wanted to go to Iraq with Christian Peacemaker Teams. He told his Dad about a grade school chum, Rick, sent to Afghanistan with the Canadian Armed Forces, who narrowly … Continue reading “Not Even to Save Our Lives”

When they finally hang Saddam Hussein, we’ll probably miss him. He has, after all, been an obsession of American politicians since 1991. Since the Washington media obsess over whatever the politicians obsess over, Saddam’s face has adorned our television screens for 14 years. He bears a strong resemblance, by the way, to the late actor … Continue reading “We’ll Miss Saddam”

I am still inclined to believe that what we are seeing in the president’s series of speeches is the beginning of a change of policy toward gradual withdrawal of a substantial number of U.S. troops from Iraq, although it is apparently not in this president’s makeup to admit mistakes or even to acknowledge changing course, … Continue reading “Chinese Puzzles”

With Harb al-Mukhtar and Isam Rashid BAGHDAD – After the U.S. forces and the bombings, Iraqis are coming to fear those bands of men in masks who seem to operate with the Iraqi police. Omar Ahmed’s family learned what it can mean to run into the police, their supposed protectors. Omar was driving with two … Continue reading “Fundamentalist Death Squads Terrorize Iraqis”

Christmas came 11 days early for Donald Rumsfeld two years ago when the news broke that American forces had pulled Saddam Hussein from a spidery hole. During interviews about the capture, on CBS and ABC, the Pentagon’s top man was upbeat. And he didn’t have to deal with a question that Lesley Stahl or Peter … Continue reading “Rumsfeld’s Handshake Deal With Saddam”

Dreams "are chief nourishers in life’s feast," wrote Shakespeare in Macbeth. Indeed, while dreams offer a private means to explore inner reality and to gain unique, undeniable, personal experiences, psychologists also recognize that there is overwhelming evidence that dreams can be used to improve waking life, often immeasurably as storehouses of creativity. Many people often … Continue reading “Bush’s ‘Lucid Dreams’ Becoming Nightmares”

Arianna Huffington’s love affair with John McCain – it’s over! No, I don’t mean that kind of love affair, silly. The glamorous Grecian is pouting and bitterly disappointed because suddenly the man of her dreams is showing his true colors as a two-timing, shift-shaping, canny politician – not the Great White Knight that she once … Continue reading “The ‘Real’ McCain”

WASHINGTON – Despite a modest decline in hostility toward the United States, opinion in the Arab world appears to have hardened over the past year, according to the latest in an annual series of surveys of six Arab countries released here Wednesday by the Arab American Institute (AAI). That hardening appears due primarily to continued … Continue reading “Arabs Unimpressed by Bush Democracy Drive”