In responding to Sophie Johnson's letter yesterday, I said that Vojvodina was ceded to Yugoslavia by the Treaty of Trianon (1920). A fellow historian wrote me yesterday to say that while this is technically correct, Serbia's claim to this territory is even stronger: a...
Hala Jaber in the Sunday Times:"For what its worth, the election did go much, much better than many expected, both from the point of view of turnout, and from the point of view of security. After all, the Ministry of the Interior's official figure of 36 killed, mostly...
A British military plane has crashed north of Baghdad. No details yet. UPDATE: The UK's Press Association newswire quoted military sources in Iraq as saying the transport plane rarely travels north of Baghdad. The sources said the aircraft is primarily used to ferry...
Kevin Sites, writing from Banda Aceh, has a disturbing essay up on his blog: Black Plastic Ibnu Jarir has no tent -- so the 28-year old fisherman must make one. And in this crowded refugee camp in the shadow of a silver mosque on the outskirts of the city -- fifteen...
While I am grateful for tex's ardent and closely reasoned defense of my views, I'd like to make a few more points about the issues Justin Logan raises here. After graciously complimenting Antiwar.com as a useful educational tool, he takes up the cudgels on behalf of...
Who said it?"This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the prisoners who were freed ... were not, as some assumed, inflicted methodically, but were excesses committed by...
Tom Palmer of the Cato Institute has a plan for withdrawing from Iraq, one that is loaded down with so many conditions that it amounts to support for continuing and even escalating U.S. military operations. For a while Palmer has been fulminating against Antiwar.com,...
Breaking: AP reports:Attack on the US Embassy in Baghdad, and there appear to be casualties. UPDATE: AP reporting rocket attack: Embassy spokesman Bob Callahan confirmed the embassy had been hit in an attack, but could give no details. "There appear to be some...
Saturday, between 4 and 6PM ET, Scott Horton will be interviewing Jude Wanniski, and the Hoover Institute's Robert Stinnett. Listen live on the Republic Broadcasting Network.
Lenin's Tomb has an excellent rundown on the Iraqi elections.
