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"Precision Bombing" and the American Definition of Innocence

Has America ever gone to war with less public understanding of what the war is about? Why is our Government so determined to attack Iraq? And why the rush to do it now?

We shouldn't see "democratic" governments trying furiously to drag their country into actions that people oppose--and that many oppose passionately- -even after being subjected to intense propaganda and disinformation.

On Saturday (Feb. 15), we stood on the Capitol steps in Austin, Texas -- across the street from the governor's mansion where George W. Bush once lived -- and spoke to 10,000 Texans who had gathered to reject Bush's mad rush to war in Iraq.

Wholeheartedly or not, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP by its Turkish acronym) of Turkey is playing a very dangerous game.

A war in Iraq will soon break out, and with it a great darkness will descend on events in the territories. As long as what goes on there doesn't affect the war's execution, no one in the world will take an interest, no one will so much as cast a glance, at the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

Earlier this year the Israeli novelist A B Yehoshua wrote at length about Zionism, the Jewish nation- building ideology formulated by Theodor Herzl, explaining that at its core lay the concept of a border.

In the vast machinery of the behemoth that is the United Nations, even a high-level figure is just a worker bee.

Hasan Barghouthi is a long time Palestinian activist in the field of social and workers' rights. He is well known in Palestine for his many years of struggle as a trade unionist.

By Earlier this year, I had a major operation for cancer. The operation and its after effects were something of a nightmare.

We oppose the impending U.S.-led war on Iraq, which threatens to inflict vast suffering and destruction, while exacerbating rather than resolving threats to regional and global peace.

George W. Bush's government is very interested in stopping the proliferation of chemical and other types of weapons. The President is quick to mention Iraq's chemical and biological agents.

'This amount of television -- more than twice what anyone thinks is a healthy amount -- has negative consequences for health, education, and family time'

The North American empire is admired by some, condemned by others, but feared by all. There are those, including the British Prime Minister, who see it as the mighty defender of the civilized world's values.

Israeli infrastructure minister Effi Eitam last week banned Palestinians from drilling for water in the West Bank and put a freeze on the issue of permits for future drillings.

Lula said it best: "Hope won over fear." In a decisive victory with a record 83 million votes cast, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of the Workers' Party (PT) - known everywhere as Lula - became the President-elect of Brazil last night with 61 per cent of the total.

War consequences are inherently unpredictable, but there is great danger that the losses from a new assault could exceed even the horrors created by the Gulf War a decade ago...

Haven't we been here before? Washington bribing and threatening the United Nations, punishing countries which refuse to toe the U.S. line in the Security Council?

Meg Bartlett, an emergency medical worker on 9/11 will read the the following statement about why her and other EMS workers will be taking the Pledge of Resistance at the New York Central Park event on October 6th.

The irony of Israel's position between Iraq and the United States, is that the more Israel wants the US to attack Iraq, the quieter Israel will have to stay about it and the lower the profile it will have to keep.

On the evening of Tuesday, 24 September 2002, thirteen days after 9/11, armed militants stormed into the Swaminarayan temple in Gandhinagar, the capital of the western Indian state of Gujarat, and opened fire on Hindu devotees gathered there for evening prayers.

Scott Ritter, the UN arms inspector who resigned in 1998 in protest at US manipulation of the UNSCOM mandate was in Baghdad this week to deliver a message to the Iraqis: allow the inspectors back or risk the destruction of Iraq.

The role of multinational corporations and banks under South Africa's racist regime is finally coming to light. Some would rather it didn't.

Five years before Saddam Hussein's now infamous 1988 gassing of the Kurds, a key meeting took place in Baghdad that would play a significant role in forging close ties between Saddam Hussein and Washington.

Israel has claimed that this attack was a mistake, or an intelligence error. They have claimed that as many as eight previous attempts on Shehada's life were aborted because of the risk to civilians nearby.

A Conversation With Scott Ritter by William Pitt

The images of torn and shattered bodies, the piles of human remains of Israelis and Palestinians look exactly the same to the naked eye.

"The new Afghan government promised us new schools, clinics, water pumps, but it has done nothing at all. People are so disappointed. At least the Taliban would grade the roads, build madras's, while this government has done nothing." Nyamatullah, Zabul tribal leader

Rio de Janeiro. A crisis is brewing in Brazil as Luis Inacio da Silva, the left-leaning candidate of the Workers Party, has opened up a wide lead in the upcoming October presidential elections.

During World War I, Britain made three different promises regarding historic Palestine.