Brussels Conference Inconclusive 32 Dead in Guerrilla Violence The Brussels conference of foreign ministers on Iraq seems to me to have yielded little practical result. […]

Questions on UN Option in Iraq A reader with a US military background writes: “I noted your recent proposal for increased UN military involvement with […]

Kos Discussion of UN Option Many thanks to “Mark in San Francisco,” who runs a diary at Daily Kos, for provoking an extensive and often […]

Bush’s Iraq Incubator of Terror Syria Deploys 7,000 to Block Infiltrators The New York Times reports that the CIA is growing increasingly alarmed about Bush’s […]

War on Terror or War on Each other? Dawn tells an unedifying little story of a crisis that was not covered by most US corporate […]

History and Genetics in Madagascar Genetics and history have joined forces to explain the origins of the people of Madagascar (the world’s fourth largest island, […]

Cole on Knowing his Own History; and Isaiah Berlin I don’t usually bother to reply at any length to my Neocon critics. Mostly this is […]

Can they Handle it? Hawi as Communist A reader writes: ‘ I noted with some relish the subtleties of perception. You and Al-Jazeera identify Georges […]

Beirut Bombing Kills Communist Opposition Leader The victory in Sunday’s polling of the anti-Syrian faction in Lebanese politics has not led to social peace. The […]