Author: dan

IT’S AN UNDERSTATEMENT TO SAY THAT Baghdad is a congested city. Practically every car on the streets is a taxi. And while the government has recently put a fleet of shiny new yellow taxis on the roads, most of the cabs are “private.” Teachers, engineers, sometimes even doctors, drive the family car to make ends…

Now that United Nations weapons inspectors have arrived in Iraq, most Americans want the inspection process to work. But the hawks in the Bush administration are petrified that it will, and doing their best to undermine it.

The Pentagon said that a “gap” in the laws governing warfare made it legally permissible during the gulf war for U.S. tanks to bury thousands of Iraqi troops in their trenches and for U.S. warplanes to bomb the enemy retreating along the so-called Highway of Death.

by Harold Pinter … There’s an old story about Oliver Cromwell. After he had taken the Irish town of Drogheda the citizens were brought to the main square. Cromwell announced to his lieutenants: “Right! Kill all the women and rape all the men.” One of his aides said: “Excuse me, general. Isn’t it the other…

Palestinians are “Semites,” but the word antisemitism is never applied to prejudice against them, only to Jews. The restriction on the application to Jews, and failure to use it in reference to Palestinians, continues in the face of the fact that prejudice against Jews has sharply diminished in the West from the era of Hitler,…

New York Times columnist William Safire has never made a secret of his pro-Israeli partiality. Thus it came as no surprise when, in a November 11, 2002 op-ed, he described Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon as “a passionate Zionist, hearty, good-humored, a leader in battle who likes to crumble the earth on his farm between…

It’s always really cheering to come and be with AFSC. You wake up in the morning and you read the newspaper or watch the TV, and there really is a sense that it’s all going to hell.

No violence, arrests or damage reported at demonstrations in Prague / Czech Republic

incredible.. a war criminal is intended to lead the investigation in the 9/11 case…

The Ministry of Truth—Minitrue, in Newspeak* —was startlingly different from any other object in sight. It was an enormous pyramidal structure of glittering white concrete, soaring up, terrace after terrace, 300 metres into the air. From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the…