In a raid west of Baghdad, U.S. forces destroyed two buildings, killing, in the language of the military “six suspected insurgents, two women and a child.”

The Philippines and Cuba, although located halfway around the world from each other, share a common history of subjugation under Spanish colonialism and US imperialism.

Not only does it appear that right-wing movie critic Michael Medved lacks imagination, but one also wonders if he even watches the movies he reviews.

We elected you – not the Iraq Study Group — to end the war in Iraq, and we expect you to take all measures necessary to do so. If the new Democratically controlled Congress does not end the US military engagement with Iraq, this tragic war will become your responsibility as well as the Bush Administration’s.

The forthcoming report from the independent Iraq Study Group, which according to press reports will possibly recommend a gradual and tentative withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq while rejecting any deadlines or timetables to carry it out, seems likely to further marginalize advocates of meaningful troop withdrawal in the media debate over Iraq.

Thousands call Congress to remind their representatives that voters issued a Mandate for Peace in the mid-term elections and expect Congress to end the war and bring the troops home now!

There is a chance the United States can leave Iraq soon with some kind of dignity. I know, I know, it sounds crazy, there is no way the Americans can leave the bloodied broken mess of a country with any kind of dignity or honor, only shame.

John R. Bolton, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, will leave that post when his recess appointment expires, the White House announced today. His action is the latest aftershock to hit the Bush administration since the Democratic party's victories in the mid-term elections on November 7.

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune recently published an editorial that said of Bush: "His pronouncements now bear no resemblance to reality."  Now?  Oh, never mind.

AMONG the many acts of aggression of the US government that lack international legitimacy, the economic blockade it still seeks to impose on Cuba stands at the top of the list.