Well, as I predicted a few days ago, the release of the British hostages/captives/whatever has been quickly followed by lamentations and gnashing of teeth. As David Pryce-Jones put it on Thursday over at National Review Online, "now is the time for...
More Mainstream Media Obfuscation
On March 17, 2003, ten days after the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency publicly reported to the UN Security Council that, "One, there is no indication of resumed nuclear activities in those buildings that were identified through the use of...
Saturday: 3 GIs, 96 Iraqis Killed; 105 Iraqis Wounded
Updated at 11:39 p.m. EDT, April 7, 2007At least 96 Iraqis were killed or found dead during violent activity today, another 105 were wounded, and ten Iraqis were kidnapped south of Kirkuk. Several explosions around the country resulted only in property damage. Also,...
Nuclear Standoff With Iran: The Only Way Out
Iran's nuclear ambition continues to dominate U.S.-Iran relations, with little positive movement. The U.S. argues that Iran does not have the right to enrich uranium, that its enrichment program is only a cover for the development of nuclear weapons and that Iran is...
A Provocation Backfires
The release of the 15 British sailors and marines by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad whose sense of showmanship was really on display here was widely described as "bizarre" in the Western media, and yet analysts including those...
Lessons in Capture, Release of Britons
The drama surrounding the release of 15 British sailors and marines after 12 days in Iranian captivity was designed to convey two key messages that the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush would do well to heed, say experts here. First, the Britons'...
Civilian Court Sides With ‘Conscientious Objector’
University of California Santa Cruz student Robert Zabala joined the Marine Corps thinking it would be a "place where he could find security" after the death of his grandmother in 2003. But when he began boot camp in June 2003, Zabala said he had an ethical...
Bush’s Bluster on Iran Was Cover for Direct Talks
When the George W. Bush administration launched a high-profile campaign in January and February accusing Iran of exporting armor-piercing bombs to Shi'ite militias in Iraq, seizing Iranian officials in Iraq, threatening cross-border raids against Iran and sending a...
‘My Name Used to Be 200343’
A year ago, Donald Vance learned what its like to be falsely accused by the U.S. military of aiding terrorists. He was held without charge for more than three months in a high-security prison in Iraq, and interrogated daily after sleepless nights without legal counsel...
Friday: 112 Iraqis, 2 GIs Killed; 80 Iraqis Wounded
Updated at 1:00 a.m. EDT, April 7, 2007In an unusually active Friday, 112 Iraqis were killed or found dead and another 80 were wounded. Among the incidents are a chlorine bomb attack in Ramadi and a major security operation in Diwaniya. Also, the U.S. military...


