U.S. peace activists have denounced Thursday's long-awaited speech by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on his plans to "disengage" from the Palestinian population in the Occupied Territories, even as the White House offered a more nuanced reaction....
Will Saddam’s capture mark a turning point in the war in Iraq? Don’t count on it. Few resistance fighters have been fighting for Saddam personally. Saddam’s capture may lead to a fractioning of the Baath Party, which would move us further toward a...
The Bush administration is sitting on a ticking time-bomb that may be just about to go off. The chairman of the 9/11 Commission, charged with discovering the truth about that seminal event, is taking his job very seriously: and that means President Bush is in some...
On the cold, blustery weekend after Thanksgiving 2003, north Florida AM radio firebrand and political activist Andy "Down to Business" Johnson made a rare appearance on the cable news circuit. The venue was Fox News' "From the Heartland", hosted by former Congressman...
With former president Saddam Hussein in the bag, the administration of President George W. Bush appears determined to make U.S. voters forget Washington invaded Iraq on the pretext that its apparently nonexistent weapons of mass destruction (WMD) posed a direct threat...
U.S. civil liberties and human rights groups Thursday hailed the one-two punch delivered by two federal appeals courts against the Bush administration's refusal to recognize basic due-process rights of alleged U.S. and foreign detainees held as "enemy...
Casualties in Iraq Is there any way that Antiwar.com could get a graphical representation of the war dead for its "casualties of war" section? It seems to me that a line graph of "deaths vs. time" showing total dead and combat dead on a given date would give us a...
It's odd that the American reaction to the recent Russian elections was that they were not up to snuff and probably rigged. One would think that Americans would instead celebrate the fact that the Communist Party suffered a serious defeat that will probably finally...
After much fanfare, generated by the unprecedented censorship agreement between Washington and the Hague Inquisition, wannabe Emperor Wesley Clark appeared before the "court" early this week to testify against Slobodan Milosevic. It is not yet known what Clark...
American officials are denying that the intent of showing captive Saddam being poked, prodded, and shorn of his locks was to humiliate the fallen Iraqi tyrant. But other supporters of this war openly gloated at the sight of the lion de-maned, as the San Francisco...
