Dear friends, four years ago today 12 or 13 million people took to the streets and The World Said ‘No’ to War.Ā …
In 1982, angered by a White House secretly escalating an unpopular war in Central America, theĀ House passedĀ the Boland Amendment, a rider to…
The transfer of current U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad from his job as the Great Wizard of Iraq’s embattled Emerald City in Baghdad’s…
Ā 1)Ā Ā The execution of Saddam Hussein was not Nuremberg.Ā Despite their flaws, the Nuremberg tribunals for the first time recognized that the…
According to the New York Times and Washington Post leaked versions of the Iraq Study Group’s consensus position (Nov. 29 and 30),…
A new U.S. intelligence report, representing the consensus of all 16 intelligence agencies, comes to the same conclusion many have known for…
The draft resolution on the Lebanon crisis to be discussed by the UN Security Council this week is very much Washington’s resolution.…
The Israeli war against Lebanon and Palestine, euphemistically depicted as “self-defense” against Hezbollah and Hamas, is simultaneously an Israeli war for domination,…
‘ The Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip constitute collective punishment of the entire Gazan population, and have created a humanitarian crisis…
** The Bush administration’s “offer” to join direct talks with Iran reflects Washington’s international isolation on the Iran issue; the offer itself…
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