In the film Schindler's List, there's a scene where Nazi soldiers are coming to take the Jews out of the ghetto in which they've been forced to live as refugees in their own country. The soldiers look anxious and extremely "pumped up," as would be necessary...
It's a late morning start today. As I'm waiting for Abu Talat, who calls to tell me he is snarled in traffic and will be late once again, huge explosions shake my hotel. Shortly thereafter, mortars are exploding in the "Green Zone" as the loud warning sirens...
Another year, another revolution – this time in Ukraine. First there was Albania (1996), then Serbia (00), followed in 2003 by Georgia's "rose revolution." As though conceived by the same scriptwriter, they all fit the same fairy-tale pattern whereby a...
What Became of Conservatives? I agree completely with Paul Craig Roberts. I too was a conservative/ libertarian who believed in small government, keeping a low profile in the world, not interfering in other nations' folly, not nation-building. The new conservatives,...
Shortly before sunrise this morning, a small band of us gathered at a busy Chicago intersection and unfurled vinyl banners bearing enlarged pictures of Iraqi children. One banner called for an end to U.S. warfare in Iraq. On my banner was Johan, smiling wanly, a...
It was not enough for the UN to whitewash NATO's illegal invasion and occupation of Kosovo, to sit idly by and even justify the ethnic cleansing and barbaric destruction of Serbs and their cultural treasures, or even to stage sham elections designed to give a veneer...
Newtopia: Give us a little background on yourself. Where did you grow up, go to school? Where have you lived? What's been your professional background? What were your main social, political, and cultural influences? Dahr Jamail's article archive on Antiwar.com ...
TORONTO - How to shed light on one Canadian's nightmare experience in a jail in Syria and the secretive U.S.-inspired, extralegal global system of interrogation and torture that put him there are challenges facing one judge here, who must also confront "national...
Iran does not want a clash with the United States. And unlike Milosevic and Saddam, neither of whom wanted a war, either, Iran is determined not to give the neoconservatives the pretext to launch one. This is behind Tehran's grudging acceptance of the...
TOLEDO - The Canadian government, unhappy for many years with Washington's belligerent foreign policy and fearful of its massive weapons stockpiles, decided last year to invade the U.S., seizing oil refineries and manufacturing plants, and establishing "regime...
