Peace

EDITORIAL: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki

August 4, 2006

This year, on the 61st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the stakes are higher than ever in the struggle to eliminate a destructive power that could end life as we know...

More calls for Iraq troop pullout

August 4, 2006 By Susan Webb

Key congressional Democratic leaders have called on President Bush to begin pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq by the end of this year.

Despite world outcry, Israel launches ground attack on Lebanon

August 4, 2006

Only days after an Israeli bomb smashed into a residential building in the southern Lebanon village of Qana, killing at least 62 civilians, 35 of them children — and provoking worldwide shock, horror and outrage —...

The Middle East in crisis

July 28, 2006

As I write, Israeli troops are invading Lebanon on its southern border. No doubt this escalation will heighten the danger of a wider war, one that could involve other state and non-state actors in that region...

Israelis see their own nation as neighborhood bully

July 28, 2006

You can see Lebanon from my sister’s backyard. She and her family and thousands of others in northern Israel live with a constant roar of gunfire — mostly from Israeli cannons aiming to kill Lebanese, occasionally...