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Maureen Dowd
Speaking to reporters this week, Mr. Bush made the bizarre argument that the worse things get in Iraq, the better news it is. “The more successful we are on the ground, the more these killers will react,” he said. In the Panglossian Potomac, calamities happen for the best. One could almost hear the doubletalk echo of that American officer in Vietnam who said: “It was necessary to destroy the village in order to save it.”
Salman Abu Sitta
For supporters of the cause, it was a sight for sore eyes. It might even strike pangs of guilt in cynical politicians who would sell whole populations for a piece of paper. A hundred survivors of the Catastrophe, from all parts of the world, converged on London to restate their inalienable rights, after decades of neglect by the world’s governments. What do they want? They want to go home.
Shiraz Maher
The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, has called on the international community to “give, and give generously” at a conference for the reconstruction of Iraq. He failed to mention that the dire state of the country is as much to do with the 1990’s UN sanctions regime as the invading capitalists, or that the result of his call will make matters worse the country.
Marc Perelman
Despite mounting criticism of the administration’s Iraq policy, Vice President Dick Cheney appears to be ratcheting up his commitment to the circle of neoconservative intellectuals who helped spearhead President Bush’s war policy, adding one of its most controversial proponents to his national security staff in a little-noticed move last month.
Paul Brown
A seven-mile dam is being built with the support of the World Bank across a northern section of the shrunken and dying Aral Sea in Central Asia, which is already described as the world’s worst environmental disaster. This latest move would sound the region’s economic and ecological death knell, condemn millions to poverty and ill health, and could spark off a region-wide war.
Yvonne Ridley
Rebel MP George Galloway has announced the launch of a new political movement which could change the face of British politics for ever. The British anti-war movement will turn into a political force to take on Tony Blair’s New Labour in the European elections in June 2004.
Walter Pincus
Washington is spending tens of millions of dollars trying to develop a media channel that will counter al-Jazeera and al-Arabiya, and serve to indoctrinate Arabs into welcoming them with open arms. However, according to independent analysis, most Iraqis see the broadcasts as no more believable than the ‘patriotic’ drivel of the days of Saddam Hussein.
Hasan Abu-Nimah
The ‘Geneva Accord’, negotiated earlier this month by informal ‘non-representatives’, would formally end the Palestinian claim to land lost to Israeli soldiers and settlers alike, and would renounce all right of return for exiles from previous wars. Who gave these suited politicians the right to contradict international law and basic human rights, by agreeing that Palestine people should give up their homes to invaders?
John Liechty
Once upon a time there was a place known as The Greatest Country In The World. This place had forgotten its true name. Grandparents had told children had told grandchildren had told great-grandchildren for so long now: “You live in The Greatest Country In The World (and incidentally that makes you The Greatest People In The World),” that the true name of the land had been lost.
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