BAGHDAD - The collapse of Iraq's infrastructure has created a worsening water crisis that is killing untold numbers of Iraqis. Iraq, with its famous Tigris and Euphrates rivers that run the length of the country, is now unable to provide drinking water to most of its...
Effecting Regime Change in Iran
Here we go again. Because "the continuing and immediate threat" of "grave acts of terrorism or threats of terrorism" constitutes "an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy and economy of the United...
The Last Days of the Incas
The Last Days of the Incas Kim MacQuarrie Simon and Schuster, 2007 544 pp. Today the U.S. military can destroy almost effortlessly any other organized armed forces on earth. American weapons are a generation ahead of those of its allies, let alone the...
Backspin for War: The Convenience of Denial
The man who ran CNN's news operation during the invasion of Iraq is now doing damage control in response to a new documentary's evidence that he kowtowed to the Pentagon on behalf of the cable network. His current denial says a lot about how "liberal media"...
In 2006 Lebanon War, Most Crimes Were Israeli
This week marks a year since the end of hostilities now officially called the Second Lebanon war by Israelis. A month of fighting mostly Israeli aerial bombardment of Lebanon, and rocket attacks from the Shi'ite militia Hezbollah on northern Israel in response...
Why Interventionism Fails
Aggressive wars are immoral: mass murder is unforgivable, and our foreign policy of global interventionism puts us in the same moral class as any of the European imperialist powers that blundered their way through Africa, East Asia, the Americas, and the Middle East....
Settlers Anchoring Into West Bank
BETHLEHEM - Israeli forces began Wednesday to bulldoze hundreds of trees on land owned by a Catholic convent near the city of Beit Jala near Bethlehem. This section of forest is being razed, according to Israeli plans, to complete a section of the separation wall,...
Friday: 4 GIs, 34 Iraqis Killed; 65 Iraqis Wounded
Updated at 11:55 p.m. EDT, Aug. 17, 2007At least 34 Iraqis were killed and 65 more were wounded during the latest attacks, which include clashes in Tarmiyah that left a one GI dead and another injured. Overall, four American servicemembers were killed and two were...
Backtalk, August 16, 2007
US Hegemony Spawns Russian-Chinese Military Alliance Let those Americans who still don't get it read Paul Craig Roberts' "US Hegemony Spawns Russian-Chinese Military Alliance." Let them hear his message loud and clear. Those of us who are condemning the neocons and...
US Israel Policy Harms Both Countries
"No American President can stand up to Israel." These words came from feisty Admiral Thomas Moorer, Chief of Naval Operations (1967-1970) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1970-1974). Moorer was, perhaps, the last independent-minded American military leader....


