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MONTREAL – The withdrawal from Iraq of aid agency Doctors Without Borders will further isolate the nation at a time when it should be reestablishing links with the international community, says a doctor with vast experience in the war-torn country. The organization, also known as Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), said Thursday it was leaving the … Continue reading “Aid Agency Exit Leaves Iraq Further Isolated”

An influential foreign-policy neoconservative with long-standing ties to top hawks in the administration of President George W. Bush has laid out what he calls "a checklist of the work the world will demand of this president and his subordinates in a second term." The list, which begins with the destruction of Fallujah in Iraq and … Continue reading “Neocon Agenda: Iran, China, Russia, Latin America…”

“The Marines that have been killed over the last five months have been killed by a faceless enemy. The enemy there has a face, and it’s called Satan, and it lives in Fallujah.” These are the words of U.S. Marine Colonel Gary Brandl as he speaks of the imminent attack on Fallujah. Who says this … Continue reading “Carnage and Martial Law”

RAMALLAH – Ramallah moves to the slow and heavy rhythm of any Muslim town in the Middle East during the fasting month of Ramadan. The only sign of anything amiss with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is the permanent vigil that the world press holds outside his ruined headquarters, the Muqata, where he was effectively kept … Continue reading “There Is Life After Arafat”

The intensity of air raids on the central Iraq city of Fallujah continued to crescendo overnight as some 10,000 U.S. Marines prepared for what is expected to be a massive urban assault on the city that has been most resistant to foreign occupation. But as American troops, accompanied by hundreds of Iraqi personnel, get ready … Continue reading “Fallujah Invasion Nears”

Bravo Company Mourns Its FallenThank-you for the link to "Bravo Company Mourns Its Fallen" (Christian Science Monitor, November 4). My nephew is currently assigned to Bravo Company, and was slightly injured in the attack. He recently told his fiancee that he wanted us to vote for Kerry "so he could come home." He doesn’t yet … Continue reading “Backtalk, November 7, 2004”

No longer will Dick Cheney have to pay visits to Langley, Virginia and lean on CIA analysts to produce the kind of intelligence a Veep might need; not now that the President has his man, Republican loyalist Porter J. Goss, heading up the Agency, and a second term in hand. Of course, the CIA was … Continue reading “Abolish the CIA!”

Memo To: David Broder, Washington Post Re: Those Mass Graves Remember, David, back on Sept. 27, I posted a memo on the margin that I wrote to you, complimenting you on your column about how the news media had been "losing their way"? It had to do with your observation that the major news media … Continue reading “Fallujah and Those Mass Graves”

On Nov. 2, Americans blew their only chance to redeem themselves in the eyes of the world. The entire world is stunned by the Bush administration’s abandonment of a half century of U.S. diplomacy in favor of misguided, unilateralist, "preemptive" naked aggression on totally false pretenses against Iraq. America’s allies are amazed at the ignorance … Continue reading “The American Century Is Over”

The International Atomic Energy Agency – under Director General Mohamed ElBaradei – has been the bane of the neo-crazies, having given the lie to neo-crazy charges that Iraq had nukes. To obviate a similar embarrassment over Iran, the neo-crazies charge that the IAEA is improperly engaged in "investigating and enforcing nuclear non-proliferation accords," activities that … Continue reading “Dissing the IAEA”