New Spying Law Quickly Challenged
Excerpt: Civil liberties advocates have lost no time in asking a federal court to stop the government from conducting surveillance under the new wiretapping law passed by Congress and signed by President George W. Bush last week. |
Bidding War Over Afghanistan
Excerpt: Barack Obama and John McCain are currently engaged in a bidding war to see who can promise more troops in Afghanistan. |
Iran Isolation Attempts Backfire
Excerpt: Iran's provocative missile tests 10 days ago again fueled the debate on the likelihood of aerial strikes against Iran. |
Realists Urge Bush to Drop Iran Precondition
Excerpt: Two of Washington's most prominent foreign policy graybeards praised Saturday's direct participation in multinational talks with Iran by a senior U.S. diplomat but called on the administration of President George W. Bush to drop his demands that Tehran freeze its uranium enrichment program as a precondition for broader negotiations. |
Is Obama the 'Antiwar Candidate'?
Excerpt: Now that Barack Obama has pulled the rug out from under John McCain's "victory or death" campaign theme, with the invaluable assistance of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, he's preparing the way for a surge of his own: an Afghan surge, to be precise. |
Hamdan Case to Test Military Tribunals
Excerpt: As the long-awaited trial of Guantanamo detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan opened this week at the U.S. naval base in Cuba, human rights groups filed suit demanding that the Department of Justice (DOJ) produce documents related to the U.S. government's ghost detention, torture, and extraordinary rendition program. |
McCain Knee-Capped by Maliki
Excerpt: This weekend's surprise endorsement by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki of Sen. Barack Obama's call for U.S. combat forces to leave Iraq by mid-2010 marks a serious setback to Sen. John McCain, who has tried hard to depict his Democratic rival as "na?ve" on foreign policy, especially with respect to Iraq. |
An Uncomfortable Conversation About Nukes
Excerpt: Why are Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, William Perry, and Sam Nunn writing opinion pieces in the Wall Street Journal calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons? |
Fallujah Braces for Another Assault
Excerpt: FALLUJAH -- U.S. and Iraqi forces are preparing another siege of Fallujah under the pretext of combating "terror," residents and officials say. |
Playing Games With Iran
Excerpt: By now the structure of the U.S. game with Iran is clear. In the first move, the United States and Iran make some small progress toward improved relations. |
'Fisking' or 'Hendersoning'?
Excerpt: My previous article on Antiwar.com, "Fisking Feith's Faulty Case for War," led to an unusually high number of thoughtful criticisms. |
Tuesday: 8 Iraqis Killed, 29 Wounded
Excerpt: Updated at 11:58 p.m. EDT, July 22, 2008At least eight Iraqis were killed and 29 were wounded. A unknown number of wounded were left after an armed attack in Tikrit. No Coalition deaths were reported. Meanwhile, parliament passed an "election law" meant to allow elections to occur later in the year; however, the law is not likely to survive. Also, four U.S. soldiers were charged with conspiracy to commit murder in relation to suspicious detainee deaths last year, and over 100,000 detainees have been released through an amnesty law. |
An Opening to Iran?
Excerpt: There seem to be two possibilities, according to several experts and sources I talked to last week, to explain the fact that the United States decided to have Undersecretary of State William Burns, the third-ranking person in the State Department, sit in the same room with Iranian nuclear envoy Saeed Jalili and high-ranking diplomats from five other countries in Geneva on Saturday. |
Monday: 24 Iraqis Killed, 32 Wounded
Excerpt: Updated at 8:34 p.m. EDT, July 21, 2008At least 24 Iraqis were killed and 32 more were wounded in the latest violence. No Coalition deaths were reported. A home belonging to the family of a pro-U.S. MP was blown up in Baghdad, but no one was hurt. Also, bombs targeted homes belonging to Fallujah police officers or their families. |
A Brazen Evil
Excerpt: Evil usually hides its face, because the sight of it repulses all but the depraved. |
Court Confirms President's Dictatorial Powers
Excerpt: Wake up, America! On July 15, the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled by 5 votes to 4 in the case of Al-Marri v. Pucciarelli [.pdf] that the president can arrest U.S. citizens and legal residents inside the United States and imprison them indefinitely, without charge or trial, based solely on his assertion that they are "enemy combatants." |
