Just as you thought the chances of the United States going to war with Iran were diminishing (largely because our own Iraqi sock-puppet regime has rejected U.S. accusations that Iran is directly responsible for American soldiers being killed in Iraq and because...
Updated at 12:08 p.m. EDT, May 24, 2008At least 27 Iraqis were killed and 29 more were wounded in the latest violence. Sadrist officials warn that the cease fire between the Mahdi Army and the al-Maliki government is in danger if Iraqi security forces do not stop...
Editorial note: This is an excerpt from a pamphlet published in 1996, Into the Bosnian Quagmire: The Case Against U.S. Intervention in the Balkans. We republish it now, in successive installments, because the rise of Barack Obama as the putative Democratic...
Discussions of foreign intervention often devolve into ideological debates. Republicans contend that the Democrats are "soft" on the war on terror and can't stomach the sacrifices that are required to spread democracy and freedom around the world. Democrats...
Ain't My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism Bill Kauffman Metropolitan Books, 2008 284 pp. By Doug Bandow American politicians routinely chatter about peace while inaugurating war. Indeed, despite the...
The Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, with its 225,000 or more deaths in 11 countries, shocked the world; so, in recent weeks, has the devastation wrought by a powerful cyclone (and tidal surge) that hit the Irrawaddy Delta of Myanmar. It resulted in at least 78,000...
"Things fall apart; the center cannot hold." As the White House agenda for the Middle East continues to unravel, events over the past 24 hours seem to suggest that US allies in the region are determined to construct a new edifice based on diplomacy, with or...
Updated at 9:24 p.m. EDT, May 23, 2008At least 19 Iraqis were killed and 11 more were wounded on a quiet prayer day. Sadrist officials reported that Iraqi security forces stopped Friday prayer services in Baghdad and Basra. An American soldier was killed south of...
The US military command in Iraq continues to talk about an alleged pipeline of Iranian weapons to Iraqi Shiites opposing the US occupation, implying that they have become dependent on Iran for indirect-fire weapons and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs). But US...
Updated at 12:45 a.m. EDT, May 23, 2008At least 27 Iraqis were killed and five were wounded during the latest attacks. Among the deadly inicidents, was a U.S. air strike on a group of frightened shepherds in Baiji, and the deaths of two journalists. Meanwhile, an...
