President Bush has so badly lied himself into a corner that he now needs the bipartisan "Iraq Study Group" – headed by the Bush family's fix-it man, former Secretary of State James Baker – to tell the American public that things are rapidly going...
Updated 10:15 p.m. EDT, Oct. 10, 2006 Violence in Iraq continued Monday into Tuesday, leaving at least 196 dead and 45 injured. Included in the totals are the death of an American GI and a British security worker. One U.S. soldier was also injured. Also, a mass...
It's fitting, on the first anniversary of my Antiwar.com column, to go back to the first issue I wrote about: the awarding of the 2005 Nobel prize in economics to game theorist Thomas Schelling. In particular, I want to highlight Schelling's acceptance speech of Dec....
With U.S. casualties rising sharply and the level of sectarian violence reaching proportions that render the "debate" over "is there a civil war yet?" patently ridiculous, the great neocon vision of a "liberated" Iraq as a beacon for the...
Updated 10:45 p.m. EDT, Oct. 9, 2006 In Monday and overnight developments in Iraq, the main story is the poisoning of an entire police division. Also, the U.S. military today reported the deaths of three marines on Sunday and the death of one soldier on Monday. At...
The violence in Iraq continued on Sunday and overnight Saturday leaving at least 107 dead and 70 wounded. Among the dead are two American soldiers, a senior Iraqi police official, a police chief and a Shi'ite cleric. This includes US/Iraqi fighting in Diwaniya...
Updated at 5:00 p.m. EDT, Oct. 8, 2006 In another violent day in Iraq, at least 148 have died and 41 have been wounded. Among the deaths is that of an American soldier who was killed by enemy fire in the northern town of Baiji and the captain of the Iraqi handball...
Are You an 'Unlawful Combatant'? "This kind of fear is understandable to Americans only on a very abstract level. We, after all, have no experience with a police state – not in the sense of a systematic totalitarian approach to repression – of which the...
The message delivered to Condoleezza Rice this week by Israeli officials is that the humanitarian and economic disaster befalling Gaza has a single, reversible cause: the capture by Palestinian fighters of an Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, in late June from a...
Amid signs that the administration of President George W. Bush remains unwilling to take stronger steps to get Israeli-Palestinian peace talks back on track, a growing number of prominent U.S. and foreign figures are calling for a new international mechanism to set...
