The NewStandard BAGHDAD - While debate continues in the United States about how best to manage the occupation and nation-building of Iraq, the ideas of Iraqis on the matter of what is to happen in their country have been all but completely muted in the West. Iraqis...
Scott Horton interviews reporter Dahr Jamail live from Baghdad about the real Iraq, a land of rampant murder, kidnapping, and media repression. Interview conducted Nov. 20, 2004. Check out Scott's other interviews with prominent antiwar and libertarian figures....
It is not yet Bush's second term. All available U.S. troops are tied down in Iraq by a few thousand lightly armed insurgents. Go-it-alone Bush has isolated America from her allies. And the neocons want to spread their war to Iran. The Bush administration is recycling...
We live in a recurring nightmare. That's the only conclusion one can draw from today's headlines, which, as we draw closer to a confrontation with Iran, bear an eerie resemblance to yesterday's breaking news. It seems like only yesterday that a Middle Eastern exile...
NEW DELHI – When it comes to Kashmir there can be no pleasing of anyone, as Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh must surely have discovered during a two-day visit, this week, to the state troubled by 15 years of separatist insurgency and half-a-century-old...
QUITO - The final declaration of the sixth conference of western hemisphere defense ministers, which ended Friday in the Ecuadorian capital, did not include several of the proposals set forth by the United States and seconded by Colombia. During the meeting, the gap...
SANTIAGO - North Korea, Iran, and Iraq, the countries that U.S. President George W. Bush labeled the "axis of evil" in early 2002, are the main unofficial issues being discussed at the 12th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, which opened...
To get your support for the application of the Bush Doctrine to Iraq last year, the neo-crazies claimed to have slam-dunk intelligence that Saddam had secretly reconstituted his uranium-enrichment program and would, therefore, soon have nukes to give to terrorists....
With all of the political hoopla and heifer dust that is spread about the Middle East, you might think we are totally dependent on Middle Eastern oil. Actually, we are not. The United States imports about 62 percent of its oil and other petroleum products. Only about...
HELSINKI - To human rights activists, Turkmenistan is a "black hole" because little of its human rights violations is known to the outside world. Things are not much better in neighboring Uzbekistan. Its 26 million people have only restricted political...
