AINKAWA, Northern Iraq - Zaid Suleyman, a 34-year-old taxi driver, sits in the administration office of St. Joseph's, an Assyrian Christian church in the Kurdish-controlled north of Iraq. He and his wife fled the capital, Baghdad, for the comparative peace of this...
Ink Stains and Blood Stains
People with no principles look to consequences to justify their actions the Republican Party and its media megaphones now contend that Iraq's first democratic election has provided a final and irrefutable justification for America's invasion and conquest. That...
Americans Die for Sharia in Iraq
Why have nearly 1,500 American soldiers died in Iraq? To what purpose have 20,000 been wounded and otherwise put out of commission? Why are we spending billions to put police on the streets of Iraq's cities, and cutting back by 95 percent on funds that put 100,000...
Neocons and Iran: Here They Go Again
Antiwar.com columnist Dr. Gordon Prather gives Scott Horton the inside scoop about Iran's "nuclear program" and the neocons who are trying to start another war. Interview conducted Feb. 5, 2005. Listen to streaming audio Download MP3 Physicist James Gordon Prather has...
Misdiagnosing the Malady
If a doctor, even a God-fearing, Bible-believing evangelical Christian, misdiagnoses a mortal malady, there is a probability the medicine he prescribes will do no good and the surgery he proposes may worsen the patient's condition. Rereading the president's inaugural...
‘How Are These People Going to Feel About Americans?’
These are the stories that will continue to emerge from the rubble of Fallujah for years. No, for generations Speaking on condition of anonymity, the doctor sits with me in a hotel room in Amman, where he is now a refugee. He'd spoken in the UK about what he saw...
Backtalk, February 8
The Dangers of Abstract Nationalism My characterization of the neocon-led Bush administration is that it is Jacobin. I characterized many of Bush's enthusiastic supporters as brownshirts because of their evident attributes: their minds are closed to facts and debate;...
Iraq: Purple or Still Black and Blue?
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Non-Kurds Allege Vote Fraud in North
KIRKUK - Kurds are declaring victory after elections in Iraq's northern oil-rich city, Kirkuk, but other groups in the multi-ethnic city are not ready to concede. Some allege massive voter fraud. "This election was done without any oversight from the United...
Arabs Fear Kirkuk Purge
KIRKUK - "When someone has the power, he will take everything," says retired soldier Mohammed Hassan Mohammed in a Shia mosque in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk. Like most Shia Arabs in this oil-rich city, his family came here in the 1980s during Saddam's...


