Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman did an excellent interview last week with David Barstow, a New York Times reporter who recently won the Pulitzer prize for his April, 2008 story about Rumfeld's "Force Multiplying" generals sent on combat missions to America TV news...
Friday on Antiwar Radio I'll be talking with Mark Manning whose award-winning film "The Road to Fallujah," about his travel there just after the massacre of November, 2004, recently premiered. (2-4 eastern.) It is a great film and should be a great interview as well....
So, five Blackwater guards have been indicted on charges related to a 2007 shooting in which 17 Iraqis were killed. Blackwater hired guns should be held accountable for their actions—actions that Iraqis call premeditated murder. However, I see a major problem with...
The InTrade prediction markets allows individuals to bet on the winner of the presidential elections and US recession timings. They can also be used to bet on US foreign policy. The graph below shows the contract price for the outcome "Number of US Troops in Iraq...
The Independent's Robert Fisk has a great article tonight about the summary executions being carried out in Saddam's old intelligence HQ, now a "high-security detention facility." Of particular note is that the government's "security officials" are so inept that they...
In the excellent article by Ann Wright, "When Refusing to Kill Has a Higher Sentence Than Murder," mention was made of the light sentences that were given out to U.S. soldiers for murdering Iraqi civilians. Many who support the war are also outraged about this. Yet,...
Something made me perk up this morning, going through the weekend's news. After two weeks of reading about South Ossetia's irregulars, the militiamen blamed for everything from looting to attempted genocide, in the periphery of news stories, this morning I read this...
Is there any government more hypocritical than the U.S. government? Has there ever been? The United States is considering punishing Russia for its military actions in Georgia by cancelling U.S. participation in an annual Russia-NATO naval exercise. Read the full...
Any given day in Iraq includes a distressingly long list of casualties, but what about the stories behind those incidents? Here's one from today which I thought warranted some expounding on: Under the headline Terrorist hideout destroyed, a military press release...
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