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Japanese hostages released from their Iraqi captors returned home this weekend to a bill from the government for their rescue and a public scolding from the prime minister. Japan is…

By Matt Kaste Friends,When Republicans (the New Radicals) go on the offensive, thousands of innocent people die, the environment is further damaged, the poor and middle-classes get stiffed and the…

The US army does not keep a tally of the people it kills or injures. “We do not do body counts” we are told by General Tommy Franks. Why then…

On this page I have pointed out the Baghdad blog Baghdad Burning/Riverbend written by a young Iraqi woman who apparently lives right in Baghdad. She is very forthright, and to…

Told you so. After the Madrid bomb, I said in an entry on this page we should expect an attack against Japanese civilians to lever out the Japanese army from…


Saddam Hussein’s sons died fighting the US army. Their father seemed happy to be found alive.

 When the Israeli army battered down the walls to his compound, Arafat foretold his…

Troops of the most powerful nation on the planet are besieging cities in one of the most damaged countries and killing its civilians. The US military tell us that they…

The left are all anti-Semites. So says the Washington Post’s intellectual-in-residence George F. Will. This clearly sensible charge comes in a WP column titled ‘The left’s latest radical chic: anti-Semitism’…

US representatives negotiating with the militias in Fallujah and Najaf want, as the BBC put it, “those responsible for the recent murder of four US security contractors to be brought…

Civilian deaths in foreign wars are just so many statistics. The numbers easily obscure the human tragedies and suffering that are the result of the crude exercise of power. Famously,…