I am not familiar with AZADAR.com and ZULJANA.com, but they are live-blogging the clashes in Karbala, including some short video clips. They say 90 have been killed.

Yesterday, the California State Assembly approved a proposal to allow voters to express their opinion on the "immediate, complete, safe and orderly withdrawal of United States forces" from Iraq. The bill goes back to the State Senate, which had approved a slightly...

An interesting talk by one of today's leading experts on the Middle East. The talk was given Friday at the New America Foundation. Based on Cole's new book, Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East. PS: Anyone know how they got YouTube to run 71 minutes in a single...

[audio:http://dissentradio.com/radio/07_08_15_bykofsky.mp3] You'd think that someone who wrote this article would be ready if he was going to appear on Antiwar Radio. But Scott Horton kicks his butt when he comes on to defend his position that Americans would benefit...

Last week Hitwise, a leading Internet traffic-rating service, announced their new rankings for political sites. Under the overall category of political websites, Antiwar.com was ranked #10 for the week ending August 4. This morning, Hitwise announced their rankings...

A video has surfaced of Dick Cheney predicting an invasion of Iraq would lead to a "quagmire." In 1994, Cheney explained his reasons for not advocating an invasion of Iraq following the first gulf war: Q: Do you think the U.S., or U.N. forces, should have moved into...

At first I though he was kidding, until I looked at some of his past writings. Stu Bykofsky, columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, is hoping for another major terror attack on the US. He lists the likely targets for al-Qaeda, hoping they will take him up on his...

US officials keep insisting that the Iraqi government pass the laws the US wants. But what would happen if Iraqi legislators pass some of the laws the US has for itself. Specifically the Third Amendment to the US Constitution: No Soldier shall, in time of peace be...

Among the top political sites on the Web last week, according to HitWise, one of the top Internet rating services.

The State Department has had enough! They see the recent sparring over the issue of whether to nuke or invade Pakistan, or to nuke Saudi Arabia, as irresponsible. (I guess making irresponsible comments on foreign policy is the private domain of the White House.) The...