In early September, the Pentagon closed its investigation into allegations that U.S. bombs killed 92 Afghan civilians, including as many as 60 children, as they slept peacefully in the village of Nawabad on the night of August 21st.

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In mid-June, Iraq's oil minister, Husain Shahristani, announced that he would grant no-bid development contracts for Iraq's oil fields to Western oil giants.

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The United States has agreed to scrap immunity for foreign security guards in Iraq, allowing them to be prosecuted under national laws, the Iraq foreign minister has said.

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Haile Selassie delivered these words in an address to the league while the fascist army of Italy's Benito Mussolini was invading Ethiopia in 1936.

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If wasn't clear before it should be now: the Bush administration can't afford to attack Iran. With gas already at $4 a gallon and rising almost every day, Iran figuratively and literally has the United States over a barrel.

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History may not repeat itself, but, as Mark Twain observed, it can sometimes rhyme. The crises and conflicts of the past recur, recognisably similar even when altered by new conditions.

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I had a lot of fun at the White House Wednesday afternoon, and not because I made Dana Perino mad. In fact, I felt a little sorry for her today. It's not her fault that Bush's speechwriters put ludicrous statements into his speeches.

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I hope that poetry like Jim's and music like mine might play some part, albeit small, in bringing The Regime's attempt at world hegemony to its own failed conclusion.

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Many Americans have lost confidence in their country's "energy security" over the past several years. Because the United States is a net oil importer, and a substantial one at that, concerns about energy security naturally raise foreign policy questions.

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A new book points to different areas in which the US has dropped the ball in Iraq.

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