Oops! The US military almost killed the freed hostage: An Italian journalist was injured when a U.S. armoured vehicle mistakenly fired on her car after her release from captivity in Iraq, news reports said Friday. One Italian secret service agent was killed in the...
I'd give all the cedars of Lebanon to know how the "opposition" and their American amen corner will spin the latest news from the investigation into the assassination of Rafik Hariri: "Lebanon's investigations show that ex-Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri was almost...
From an ACLU press release: Members From Both Sides of the Aisle Promise to Investigate Problems at FBI After Hearing Wednesday "WASHINGTON - Two Members of Congress promised to investigate whistleblower Sibel Edmonds’ allegations against the FBI and raised concerns...
In Backtalk: Steve Vinson: the real Bush plan for the Mideast can be found in "Securing the Realm" -- which doesn't mention democracy. Tom Harper: no one spit on Vietnam vets. Leon Hadar: Britain would fail Rice's "town-square test." Cheryl Hutchinson: (Ex-communist)...
Amy Goodman interviews the great journalist and author of Pity the Nation Robert Fisk, who lives in Lebanon, about the gruesome assassination of Rafik Hariri, in which 18 people were dashed to pieces; ... at one point, I saw a woman's hand ... Fisk has many...
Last night, Brian Williams released a breaking story on NBC: that the presiding judge on the Saddam tribunal had been assassinated. It turned out it was an error: one of the lower judges and a lawyer were killed. Not a major error in the news report, except.... NBC...
Columns, that is. Tomorrow’s edition will be the 200th appearance of my exclusive column for Antiwar.com. It began in the fall of 2000, in the aftermath of Serbia’s “October revolution,” and has chronicled events in the former Yugoslavia ever since: the Presevo...
The China Post perceives a new cold war with the United States: "A new Cold War is taking shape after last week's U.S.-Japan joint statement that China is their biggest security threat and that Taiwan is key to keep Beijing's growing military might in check... It was...
What a shock. I honestly didn't see this coming. What happens when you design a "missile defense", which might, someday, be able to stop all missile attacks, and thus nullify the ability of any nation in the world to respond to a US attack? This is what happens;...
From Democracy Now:The resolutions, every single one, and it got up to 56, more than 52, every single resolution begins with a plea to support and respect the troops. We need these people here. They're first responders, they're family, they're friends, they're workers...
