Corporate Warriors Thank you for maintaining this site. Do you have a statistic about how many "contractors" have been killed /injured in Iraq? ~ PR Ford Sam Koritz replies: David Lazarus wrote about this subject in the January 21 San Francisco Chronicle ("Taking the...
The Madness of Carla Del Ponte
Louise Arbour had it easy. She followed NATO's instructions, made only as much fuss as she was told, and retired to the Canadian Supreme Court. It fell on Carla Del Ponte, her successor as the Head Inquisitor of the Hague kangaroo court, to actually put together and...
Afghan Elections Could Deepen Ethnic Divide
With only four months to go before scheduled elections in Afghanistan, a growing number of observers are concerned that balloting might aggravate rising ethnic tensions between the northern and southern parts of the country. Some experts are calling for the elections...
Body Count Redux
http://www.independent.org/tii/antiwar/e040218.html
US Ally Uzbekistan Sends Elderly Mother to Prison, Hard Labor
After torturing her son to death, allegedly by boiling him in water, the government of Washington's closest Central Asian ally, Uzbekistan, has sentenced his 62-year-old mother to six years of hard labor in prison, according to human rights groups, who are calling on...
Is the Tide Turning?
You know something is up when even Bill O'Reilly, the Fox network's champion bloviator, is admitting that he was wrong about the "weapons of mass destruction" he and the rest of the War Party insisted were in Iraq. Of course, it was still a good idea to go to war, in...
Dear Mr. Prosecutor
Editor's Note: Patrick Fitzgerald, the U.S. Attorney in Chicago, is heading a Justice Department probe into the administration leak exposing the identity of Valerie Plame as a CIA undercover operative. The information, which was revealed to syndicated columnist Robert...
Early Origins of the Iraq War
An interview conducted by "Philip Dru." Check out his other interviews with prominent libertarians and antiwar personalities. WMV format (requires Windows Media Player) MP3 format (download requires any MP3 player)Laurence M. Vance, a publisher and author, is a Greek...
War Hawks Undermined by Zarqawi Letter
A letter purportedly written to senior al-Qaeda leaders by a key associate, Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi, appears to undermine a major thesis of hard-core neo-conservatives who led the U.S. drive to war in Iraq. The letter, which is essentially an appeal for help in...
U.S. Sees al-Qaeda Everywhere
In an apparent attempt to downplay the internal Iraqi dynamics sparking ongoing attacks, the Bush administration has been blaming al-Qaeda for much of the violence. Key in this effort has been the portrayal of the ultra-orthodox Kurdish group Ansar al Islam and its...


