Author: mike

This indicates that the Iraqis were hiding heavy weaponry within residential areas. I wonder what the US military’s urban defence doctrine has to say about artillery placement and residential areas? But I digress. Anyway,...

“The administration wasn’t matching its deeds to its words in the war on terrorism. They’re making us less secure, not more secure,” said Beers, who until now has remained largely silent about leaving his...

One of the core postulates of social psychology is that our perceptions of the world are not absolute, but instead constrained and filtered by the webs of discourse within which we exist. The Platonic...

The Bush administration took office pledging to restore “honor and dignity” to the White House. And it’s true: Bush has not gotten caught having sex with an intern or lying about it under oath....

consider just one provision of the legislation: the subsidy on cotton, which the 2002 law more than doubled, from 35 to 72 cents per pound. The United States is a highly inefficient cotton producer;...

“What are we getting into here?” asked a sergeant with the U.S. Army’s 4th Infantry Division who is stationed near Baqubah, a city 30 miles northeast of Baghdad. “The war is supposed to be...

So the Pentagon is pinning its anti-Saddam hopes on yet more DNA testing of the organic residue from its Mob-style hit on a bunch of SUVs in Iraq last week. Officials said they had...

Specialist Corporal Michael Richardson added: “There was no dilemma when it came to shooting people who were not in uniform, I just pulled the trigger. “It was up close and personal the whole time,...

The astonishing ineptness of the various smear campaigns and forgeries promulgated by the pro-war propagandists during the Iraqi invasion has been astonishing. Or perhaps disinformation campaigns were always this bad, but knowledge and access...