This piece is far too optimistic and soft on Bush, but perhaps the writer wants the president to listen, and is phrasing his critique thusly. We think that’s a lost cause, but the historical analogy is still worth considering. Richard… Read moreBush in Iraq; Napoleon in Egypt
Did you happen to see this one? From AP, July 31: NASHVILLE — A proud enclave of Kurds has lived in this city for decades, starting businesses and soccer leagues, holding down good jobs and blending into the immigrant neighborhoods… Read moreKurdish street gang rocks Nashville
At least 250 and perhaps up to 500 are dead in four coordinated truck-bomb attacks that devastated Tal al-Azizziyah and Sheikh Khadar, two northern villages outside the town of Qahataniya near the Syrian border in Iraq’s Nineveh province, Aug. 14…. Read moreIraq: Yazidis targeted again
Gee, it’s great to be home. From AP, Aug. 14: Explosion destroys gas station MINEOLA, N.Y. — A massive fire destroyed a gas station, an auto repair shop and a dozen customers’ cars on Tuesday. As the flames raged and… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
The Japanese anti-war group Zenko, whose 37th annual conference just closed in Tokyo, is a critical voice of dissent to the controversial Yasukuni shrine, where “Class A” war criminals like Hideki Tojo, as well as many hundreds of common soldiers,… Read moreWW4 Report visits Yasukuni shrine
Hiroshima marked the 62nd anniversary of the world’s first atomic bomb attack Aug. 6, where Prime Minister Shinzo Abe scrambled to mend fences with survivors still outraged by comments from a cabinet member apologizing for the bombings of Hiroshima and… Read moreAbe covers for war crimes gaffe at Hiroshima Day
On Aug. 4, the National Assembly for Peace and Democracy opened at a conference hall in Kamata, a city within the Tokyo metropolitan area. Attended by some 500 activists from throughout Japan, as well as participants from South Korea, the… Read moreJapanese anti-war conference unites Okinawan, Iraqi struggles
On Aug. 3, some 100 activists from the Japanese anti-war group Zenko (National Assembly for Peace and Democracy) gathered near the US embassy in Tokyo’s central Shinbashi district to protest the July 4 slaying of Abdelhussein Saddam by US Special… Read moreProtest at US embassy in Tokyo over slaying of Iraq civil resistance leader
Media revealed this week that at a high-level meeting in Riyadh in January, Saudi officials confronted then-US Iraq envoy Zalmay Khalilzad with incriminating documents on Iraq’s prime minister Nouri Kamal al-Maliki. One purported to be an early alert from al-Maliki… Read moreSaudis rewarded with high-tech arms for destabilizing Iraq
Radical students July 27 again occupied Islamabad’s Red Mosque—hours before a suicide bomber killed 13 people in a market down the street from the mosque. Seeking a political solution to the multiple converging crises he faces, Pervez Musharraf reportedly met… Read moreUS to invade Pakistan?
Colombia’s imprisoned paramilitary warlords July 24 announced an end to cooperation with prosecutors investigating massacres and other atrocities, throwing into question the country’s peace process. The move was taken to protest the July 11 ruling of the Supreme Court of… Read moreColombia: para commanders break off peace process
In another exercise in understatement, this terrifying July 27 Washington Post piece by Walter Pincus is entitled “Bush order on freezing assets is unusually broad.” Do those “threatening the peace or stability of Iraq” include striking oil workers and other… Read moreBush executive order targets Iraq solidarity efforts
