LOS ANGELES - The house lights go down and the stage lights come up on The Wolf, the first production of VetStage, a nonprofit theater company run by veterans of the U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It opens with a funeral: a Roman Catholic priest preparing to...
BAGHDAD - Iraqis blame the U.S. occupation for the failure of two parallel security plans drawn up by U.S. forces and Iraqi troops that failed dramatically with the bombings last week that killed more than 300 people in Baghdad. Under the security plans, additional...
BINT JBEIL, Lebanon - Eight months after Israeli attacks left devastation across many villages in southern Lebanon, reconstruction comes with mounting anger toward both Israel and the central Lebanese government. The war that raged between Israel and Hezbollah July 12...
All the reasons given to justify a preemptive strike against Iraq were wrong. Congress and the American people were misled. Support for the war came from various special interests that had agitated for an invasion of Iraq since 1998. The Iraq Liberation Act, passed by...
Is the Iraq war to become a permanent feature? The war persists despite the opposition of a majority of Americans and Iraqis. The war persists despite warnings from U.S. generals that the stress is breaking the U.S. Army. The war persists despite its enormous costs in...
Michael Chertoff, President Bush's secretary of Homeland Security, desperately tried to refute Zbigniew Brzezinski's cogent charge that the administration has hyped the "war on terror" to promote a "culture of fear," in a recent Washington Post opinion piece. In...
Updated at 12:15 a.m. EDT, April 25, 2007A day after a major attack against U.S. forces in Diyala province, two more U.S. servicemembers are reported killed in an unconfirmed incident in Karbala. However, the U.S. military did confirm that a Marine was killed today in...
Updated at 11:51 p.m. EDT, April 23, 2007At least 107 Iraqis were killed or found dead today and 161 Iraqis were wounded in violent attacks. Significant bombings took place in Baghdad, Mosul, Ramadi and Baquba. No foreign casualties were reported. At least 10 GIs and...
The Associated Press reported a major victory for defendants in the AIPAC espionage trial on April 17, 2007: "Prosecutors suffered a setback yesterday in their case against two former pro-Israel lobbyists accused of violating the 1917 Espionage Act when a federal...
'Idiot liberals' versus welfare-state liberals on the war The recent confrontation between Tina Richards, the mother of a GI home from Iraq, and Rep. David Obey (D-Wisc.), the powerful head of the House Appropriations Committee, over the Democratic leadership's...
