Ahmadinejad Meets US Peace Movement Ahmadinejad Meets US Peace Movement
Yesterday evening, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spent a couple of hours taking questions from representatives of the American peace movement. He appeared in a ballroom at ...
Sep 25, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
Iran Hawks Take Wing Iran Hawks Take Wing
You've got to worry when bipartisan hawks flock together. And you've got to worry even more when those hawks are targeting Iran, and writing op-eds in the Wall Street Journal with...
Sep 23, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
Carnage in Pakistan Carnage in Pakistan
It's possible, of course, that when Alaska Governor Sarah Palin meets Hamid Karzai, the president of of Afghanistan, and Asif Ali Zardari, the president of Pakistan this week, she...
Sep 22, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
Bringing China into the Middle East Bringing China into the Middle East
Speaking last week at the Middle East Institute, Ken Pollack of the Brookings Institution surprised me by saying that the United States ought to invite China into the Middle East ...
Sep 15, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
Invading Pakistan, Expanding the War Invading Pakistan, Expanding the War
The Times reports today that President Bush gave an order in July allowing US Special Forces "to carry out ground assaults inside Pakistan without the prior approval of the Pakist...
Sep 11, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
Lethal High-Tech Counterinsurgency in Iraq Lethal High-Tech Counterinsurgency in Iraq
Bob Woodward, in "The War Within," has a mysterious passage about the supersecret, high-tech assassination efforts aimed at Iraqi militants. It's all hush-hush, but there is other...
Sep 10, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
Reading Bob Woodward Reading Bob Woodward
Reading Bob Woodward's The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008, is like reading raw transcripts of documents and interviews from a sensational murder trial: you kno...
Sep 9, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
McCain and The Forrestal McCain and The Forrestal
Last night, John McCain went on at length about his imprisonment in Vietnamese POW camps, and indeed his time as a captive in Vietnam has been the spark to his political career si...
Sep 5, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
Cheney Blusters Through the Caucasus Cheney Blusters Through the Caucasus
Leave aside the fact that it's hard to imagine how to invest $1 billion in aid to the tiny rogue nation of Georgia. Dick Cheney, scowl and bluster on display, is cruising through ...
Sep 4, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
Sarah Palin, Foreign Policy Expert Sarah Palin, Foreign Policy Expert
The zealots and zombies of the Christian right, those dark armies of the night, are girding for battle behind Sarah Palin's flag and, to be sure, she has credentials to lead them....
Sep 3, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss