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The Missing 13,000: What Force for Lebanon’s Frontier?

Rene Wadlow August 22, 2006 Rene Wadlow

After five weeks of fighting, starting on July 12, massive destruction and displacement of persons, a cease-fire has been reached on the Israel-Lebanon frontier. The UN Security Council has decided to increase the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unfil) in place since 1978 to 15,000 peacekeepers who will join 15,000 soldiers of the regular Lebanese Army to control the southern frontier area with Israel in order to prevent both Hezballah rocket launches into Israel and Israeli Army attacks into Lebanon. The cease-fire and military deployment is a necessary first step in a renewed conflict resolution process which, for the moment, no one is leading. read more

A War Over Nothing

Sandy LeonVest August 15, 2006 Sandy LeonVest

"See, this war is different from all the ones that our fathers and grandfathers fought. Those wars were for something. This war is for nothing," accused rapist and mass murderer, Private Steven Green said in an interview with Stars and Stripes reporter Andrew Tilghman in February, 2006. "I came over here because I wanted to kill people."

The New Civil Service

Rory Stewart June 12, 2006 Rory Stewart

I watched two men enter the lobby of the Hotel Mowafaq.

Most Afghans seemed to glide up the center of the lobby staircase with their shawls trailing behind them like Venetian cloaks. But these men wore Western jackets, walked quietly, and stayed close to the banister. I felt a hand on my shoulder. It was the hotel manager.

Their New Democracy Leaves Iraqis Speechless

Brian Conley and Isam Rashid June 8, 2006 Brian Conley and Isam Rashid

The Bush Administration's final verdict is that the United States attacked Iraq to help spread democracy and freedom to the Iraqi people. Throughout the length of the conflict and the slow process to select a government, the idea of democracy has been increasingly questioned.

Palestinian Violence as an Indicator of a Bigger Battle

Ramzy Baroud May 31, 2006 Ramzy Baroud

Labeling as 'dangerous' the violent escalation in the Gaza Strip between supporters of the Fatah and Hamas movements is an understatement, to say the least.

Houzan Mahmoud Interview: The Iraqi Freedom Congress and the Civil Resistance

Bill Weinberg, World War 4 Report April 11, 2006 Bill Weinberg, World War 4 Report

Houzan Mahmoud is a co-founder of the Iraqi Freedom Congress (IFC), a new initiative to build a democratic, secular and progressive alternative to both the US occupation and political Islam in Iraq.