Condi Rice is baffled by the victory of Hamas in the recent Palestinian elections: "I've asked why nobody saw [Hamas' election victory] coming. It does say something about us not having a good enough pulse... I don't know anyone who wasn't caught off guard by Hamas'...
If anyone had any doubts about the army vs. settlers “clashes” in Hebron being nothing but a sham (see my latest column), today’s Ha'aretz reports of the so predictable outcome: The state and Hebron's settlers reached an agreement early Monday morning under which...
Bloomberg reports:Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper lost a bid to overturn a ruling it libeled U.K. politician George Galloway by reporting he was in the pay of ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Galloway, 51, was awarded 150,000 pounds ($263,000) in damages in...
Kurdish writer Kamal Karim is to be retried for the crime of defaming Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani. Karim had been sentenced to 30 years in prison after a trial that lasted one hour. He was convicted in December under a law passed by the Kurdish regional parliament...
If anybody out there needs to catch up or get a good refresher course in who lied us into war in Iraq and how, may I recommend this great article by former DIA officer W. Patrick Lang, "Drinking the Kool-Aid" from the summer of 2004? It is a detailed retelling of the...
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We all know (hopefully) from reading Dr. Gordon Prather 3 times a week here at Antiwar.com and World Net Daily (and even from rags like the Washington Post) that if the government of Iran began to enrich uranium for nuclear bomb making purposes right now, it would...
Here is what should be Bush's official portrait, made with the faces of the fallen.
Thomas Woods, over at the LRC Blog has put out a call for great antiwar speeches in American history, so here's a good one I remember reading in the New American. In an article called "Minding Our Own Business," Steve Bonta quotes a speech given in 1898 by...
If the prohibition of torture is truly unjust, then is a little civil disobedience too much to ask for? Where is our Thoreau with thumbscrews? Jim Henley questions the torture enthusiasts' depth of conviction:Okay, here's the scenario: Terrorists have planted a...
