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Victory at Last!

The Iraq War has yet to begin to go away, the Afghan War is being escalated in a major way, the Middle East is in some turmoil, Guantanamo remains open,

Obama with Blood on His Hands

US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have operated under standing orders to 'call for fire' (an air-strike) whenever resistance fighters take cover in a house or apartment building, even when

Explaining the Drop in Iraqi War Dead

Bush’s 'surge' increased the Iraqi violence in late spring 2007, including a spike in US casualties, and that only a political-military decision to pull back from offensive operations that summer

Afghanistan: ‘Roach Motel’ for Empires

What Afghanistan has in common with both Vietnam and Iraq is its long history of resistance to foreign occupation

Robert Fisk’s World: These Iranian troubadours show how music can corrupt the soul

I heard them in a narrow street in north Tehran, not one of the rich villa-lined avenues we associate with the Iranian middle classes but a tired thoroughfare of overheated

Fort Hood and Swiss Minarets: The Existential Problem of Scorpions in a Bottle

Tom Friedman is quite right in his New York Times op-ed piece of November 29th where he exclaims to Muslims: “Whenever something like Fort Hood happens you say, ‘This is

Targeted by the New McCarthyites

[John] Denham is entertaining Inayat Bunglawala of the MCB, who gave a taste of the 'progressive' policies Labour is encouraging when he wrote an article defending Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi,

The Memory Scrub About Why Ft. Hood Happened Is Almost Complete …

What happened to all the initial reports that accused Fort Hood killer Maj. Nidal Hasan snapped because he was distraught over the Army's refusal to grant him either a discharge

An Open Letter to President Obama from Michael Moore

Do you really want to be the new "war president"? If you go to West Point tomorrow night (Tuesday, 8pm) and announce that you are increasing, rather than withdrawing, the

You Get What you Vote For!

The so-called anti-war movement currently finds itself in somewhat of a quagmire: What to do when the man you raised money for, volunteered for, and yes, even voted for, actually