IraqSlogger reports: A pro-US Sunni paramilitary force has been announced in a notoriously rough area of Eastern Baghdad, local sources tell IraqSlogger. In the Sulaikh area, a "Sulaikh Awakening" (Sahwat al-Sulaikh) group has been formed, locals report, which is...

Conflict in Pakistan and Kurdistan

Read this post by Arthur Silber, then sign this petition in support of the Illinois high-school students now facing expulsion or even criminal charges for their participation in a peaceful antiwar protest.

The Fascist Shift

Bush’s Will to Power

A Cakewalk is a Horrible Thing

The Democrats and the War

At the Independent Institute in Oakland, California, on Tuesday, November 6: For more than a century U.S. foreign policy—whether conducted by Democrats or Republicans—has been based on the assumption that Americans’ interests are served best by intervening...

Regional War Coming

Neocons Live in Fantasy World