On Friday it was reported that Mohamed Dheere was appointed as the new mayor of Mogadishu by the US-backed Somali government. What's interesting about this is that just last year, when the US decided to start funding warlords to pick fights with the Islamic Courts,...
Maybe I should've held onto my Sunday blog posting about coalition forces killing Afghan civilians for a few days. If I had: I could've pointed this out as well. So, fresh off a series of airstrikes that killed scores of civilians last week, fresh off promises of...
The year is 1939, and the Soviet Union has just signed a non-aggression pact called the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Nazi Germany. While the effects of this pact were myriad and far-reaching, what interests us here is the secret portion of the document dividing up the...
As Antiwar.com holds our quarterly fundraising drive, the US military announces its plans for the upcoming quarter as well. Major General Rick Lynch promises us an increase in US soldiers being killed in Iraq, primarily a result of the latest troop surge. Major...
Last week, it was announced that NATO's anti-Taliban raids in Kandahar province had killed approximately 50 civilians. Afghan President Hamid Karzai, for his part, let it be known that he is 'losing patience' with all the civilians NATO has been killing. As the US...
With this night/morning's headline story about the US warning Israel not to enter into talks with Syria generating a lot of discussion, I thought it might be a good time to remind everyone of a headline from a couple of months ago. Neocons: We expected Israel to...
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson is running for President. While Richardson is not hugely active on the international scene, you may remember him as the man who helped broker a cease-fire in Darfur. But what I'm really interested in here is the media's coverage of...
A remarkable article in tonight's Haaretz, remarkable not so much in that it talks of a ceasefire between the Israelis and the Palestinians, because those are certainly common enough, but remarkable in how succinctly it illustrates just how close the two sides are. An...
The date has been set, or at least the timeframe. Tony Blair will step down as Prime Minister of Britain within a year. This of course opens the door for Blair's longtime rival and longtime successor Gordon Brown, with whom Blair was rumored to have engaged in a...
The foiled terror plot of August 10th has had considerable effect on the news of the past week. It's turned the airline industry upside-down in a scramble to prevent such innocuous items as bottled water from finding their way on board a jet, where they would be...
