Amy Goodman interviews the great journalist and author of Pity the Nation Robert Fisk, who lives in Lebanon, about the gruesome assassination of Rafik Hariri, in which 18 people were dashed to pieces; ... at one point, I saw a woman's hand ... Fisk has many...
Last night, Brian Williams released a breaking story on NBC: that the presiding judge on the Saddam tribunal had been assassinated. It turned out it was an error: one of the lower judges and a lawyer were killed. Not a major error in the news report, except.... NBC...
Columns, that is. Tomorrow’s edition will be the 200th appearance of my exclusive column for Antiwar.com. It began in the fall of 2000, in the aftermath of Serbia’s “October revolution,” and has chronicled events in the former Yugoslavia ever since: the Presevo...
The China Post perceives a new cold war with the United States: "A new Cold War is taking shape after last week's U.S.-Japan joint statement that China is their biggest security threat and that Taiwan is key to keep Beijing's growing military might in check... It was...
What a shock. I honestly didn't see this coming. What happens when you design a "missile defense", which might, someday, be able to stop all missile attacks, and thus nullify the ability of any nation in the world to respond to a US attack? This is what happens;...
From Democracy Now:The resolutions, every single one, and it got up to 56, more than 52, every single resolution begins with a plea to support and respect the troops. We need these people here. They're first responders, they're family, they're friends, they're workers...
The US congress has certainly come a long way since the days of John C. Calhoun and John Quincy Adams. Amy Goodman and Jackson Thoreau have both reported that congressman Sam Johnson (R-Texas) has called on president Bush to nuke Syria. Thoreau quotes Johnson as...
I also happened to catch this on the telly. The only thing James Wolcott left out of his otherwise spot-on post is that CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer is an alumnus of the Likudist Jerusalem Post and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
Gary Leupp, writing in Counterpunch; Before Bush's Tribunal of Freedom and Godliness, Syria stands guilty until proven innocent. The sentence on its regime was pronounced even before this Year Four, as was the sentence on Iran. The plan is to execute both before Year...
William Rivers Pitt has a flawed, but compelling analysis of American Empire (posted at truthout.org), which he sees as having taken place in three stages; There have been three stages of American empire since the creation of this nation. Each has fed the other, and...
