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I met Muzamil Jaleel, the Kashmir Bureau Chief for the Indian Express, last spring while teaching at the University of California (Berkeley) Graduate School of Journalism. He was on a brief leave from his civil-war-torn land, but every passing story he happened to tell about his life spoke of the carnage he had left behind. … Continue reading “Kashmir’s Untouched Village”

  Watch Ron Paul deliver this speech to the House of Representatives on video.     I rise in strong opposition to HR 418, the REAL ID Act. This bill purports to make us safer from terrorists who may sneak into the United States, and from other illegal immigrants. While I agree that these issues … Continue reading “HR 418: A National ID Bill Masquerading as Immigration Reform”

The Bush administration is making the same mistakes with Iran that it made with Iraq. It makes allegations unsupported by facts, refuses to negotiate and threatens sanctions or military action, neither of which is feasible. In short, it has no rational Iran policy. The Bush administration seems to be under the impression that the Iranians … Continue reading “Could Bush Possibly Make the Same Mistake Twice? Yeah.”

Condi Rice’s European debut as our second female Secretary of State provoked – at least amongst the media elite in Paris and London – a feeding-frenzy. She has become – and may well remain – a media darling. [You may recall that our first female Secretary of State – Madeline Albright – was once mistaken … Continue reading “Condi Desperate to Stop EU-China-Iran Chain Reaction”

ARBIL, Iraq – Fresh from their success at the polls, Iraq’s two main Kurdish political parties have put forward 72-year-old Jalal Talabani as their candidate for the presidency of Iraq. If he succeeds in winning the post, it will be a fitting coda to one of Iraq’s most colorful careers. Born into a prominent Kurdish … Continue reading “The Next President of Iraq?”

Remember that Iraq election everyone was hailing last week as a triumph of democracy and a model for the region? A quagmire was transformed almost overnight into a stunning victory: when election day dawned, Iraq turned on a dime and was supposedly rendered relatively quiet. I heard one news anchor declare that only eight attacks … Continue reading “Iraq’s Dodgy Election”

Despite the Bush administration’s insistence that, at least for now, it remains committed to using diplomatic means to halt Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program, war drums against the Islamic Republic appear to be beating more loudly here. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice assured Europeans on her trip this past week that Washington does indeed support … Continue reading “Iran War Drums Beat Harder”

Antiwar.com columnist Ivan Eland talks exit strategy with Scott Horton. Interview conducted Feb. 5, 2005. Check out Scott’s other interviews with prominent antiwar and libertarian personalities. Listen to Streaming Audio Download MP3 Ivan Eland is senior fellow and director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at The Independent Institute and assistant editor of The … Continue reading “Which Way Out of Iraq?”

Unfortunately, it should hardly come as a surprise that it took about a day into what most of the world press called a cease-fire – though the principals were careful not to use the word – for the first fatality to occur by gunshot. According to the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz, "Gunfire from the Atzmona settlement … Continue reading “Dim Hopes for Peace”

The neoconservative Project for the New American Century (PNAC) has signaled its intention to continue shaping the government’s national security strategy with a new public letter stating that the “U.S. military is too small for the responsibilities we are asking it to assume.” Rather than reining in the imperial scope of U.S. national security strategy … Continue reading “Liberals and Neocons: Together Again”