McGreevy: Facing West from Arab Country Patrick McGreevy Writes from Beirut: ‘8 August 2006 Facing West from Arab Country US leaders often assert that their […]

Mashhadani on Americastan in Iraq Gilbert Achcar kindly translates a recent article from al-Hayat, interviewing the Speaker of the House of the Iraqi Parliament. I […]

Israeli Air Raids Kill 12 Hizbullah Rockets kill 15 If we start in the north and work south, here is what the Israel-Lebanon War looked […]

Save Lebanese Civilians Faleh A. Jabar, an Iraqi intellectual resident in Beirut who has been a leading force in promoting a democratic intellectual culture in […]

Battle for Baghdad US troops clashed with the Mahdi Army of clerical nationalist Muqtada al-Sadr in Sadr City Monday morning. A car bombing of a […]

One Ring to Rule Them The wholesale destruction of all of Lebanon by Israel and the US Pentagon does not make any sense. Why bomb […]

Lebanon War Grinds on Despite UN Diplomacy On Sunday morning, “Six civilians were killed when an air-to-ground missile hit a house in the village of […]

Bombings in Baqubah, Ambush Near Kirkuk Reuters details guerrilla violence on Saturday (and late Friday. An army checkpoint sprayed with fire, killing 5 soldiers, near […]