It was the most publicized teardrop in modern history. As the Washington Times, in a veritable swoon, breathlessly related: "President Bush yesterday swooped into Baghdad for a surprise Thanksgiving Day visit with U.S. troops and, with a tear running down his...
The Republican National Committee has shown what President George W. Bush's re-election campaign will be about: fearmongering. Well, he's pretty good at warmongering, so why not play the fear card? The essence of the RNC's first commercial was that if you don't...
Mosul, recently held up as an example of our successful occupation of Iraq, was where two American soldiers were shot, dragged out of their car and had their bodies pummeled with concrete blocks by a mob that had quickly gathered. All of this happened recently in...
Except for maybe Sichuanese and (Inner) Mongolians, Chinese aren't really the fist fighting type. Of course a fight breaks out every second in a country of 1.3 billion, but relatively speaking, most Chinese will yell and point and have the neighbors gather before they...
Uighur separatists from China are likely to be mistreated if they are returned to Beijing's custody from the Guantanamo Bay naval base as the US administration is reportedly considering, says the group Human Rights Watch (HRW). More than a dozen members of the Muslim...
The forcible shutting down of the Al-Arabiya news channel in Baghdad is the first act of a new dictatorship shedding its teeth in the increasingly undemocratic Iraq. What is a dictatorship? A classic definition clarifies that it is "a form of government in which...
'The Motive for the Invasion' If the motive for the invasion was chaos and devastation for the purpose of extracting oil from the Iraqi corpse, what, in your view, would be the motive behind the motive? Global nuclear war? World domination? Political suicide? If any...
As outlined in Project for the New American Century's statement on post-war Iraq, the geopolitical objectives of the Carlucci-Woolsey-Kristol Pax Americana include complete disarmament of the Iraqis, the maintenance of "territorial integrity," and the installation of...
Some people, including our president, seem to think that once free elections are held in Iraq, democracy will exist and everything will be just fine and dandy from there on out. This rather widespread belief stems from a misunderstanding or ignorance of our own...
Furor over the strong showing of the Radicals in Serbia's failed presidential election has just subsided in the West, when news came of Croatia's electoral results. Three years after imploding upon the death of its leader, the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) regained...
