September 15, 2006 By Brendan Smith & Jeremy Brecher In a significant rebuff to President Bush and his security-driven strategy for Republican victory in November, the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday rejected the President’s military detainee bill and passed a radically different alternative. At stake in this standoff between the President and… Read More »
‘UNITE FOR PEACE’ IN LEBANON?
July 26, 2006 Israel, the U.S., and the yet-again submissive Britain are now totally isolated in their collusive attack on Lebanon. As the emergency meeting on Lebanon in Rome collapsed Wednesday, a U.S. official described Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as being “under siege” for her position that a ceasefire must include a permanent… Read More »
WATADA, THE WAR, AND THE LAW
July 10, 2006 By Brendan Smith & Jeremy Brecher On July 5 the US Army brought charges against First Lieut. Ehren Watada, an infantry officer stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington, who has refused to deploy to Iraq with his unit because he believes the war there is illegal. Watada faces up to eight… Read More »
THE PINCER STRATEGY
June 26, 2006 By Brendan Smith & Jeremy Brecher Pincer: A movement in which two columns are driven, one on each side of an enemy stronghold, so as to be able to converge like the jaws of pincers to isolate and crush the stronghold. Echoing calls from the left, Senator Arlen Specter recently announced… Read More »
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