Stories by Robert Dreyfuss
Robert Dreyfuss is the author of "Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam" (Henry Holt/Metropolitan Books).
An interview with the commander of the Sunni-led Awakening movement reveals the possibility of a new anti-U.S. resistance.
Posted on Oct 6, 2008
In his demands for a U.S. troop withdrawal, the Iraqi PM is hardly the tough negotiator the media makes him out to be.
Posted on Aug 26, 2008
A debate over McCain's claims of "victory in Iraq" is one Obama can win if he hits hard.
Posted on Aug 22, 2008
With Iraq's internal politics a ticking time bomb -- and Iran wielding its influence -- neither John McCain nor Barack Obama have a realistic plan.
Posted on Jul 28, 2008
The former interim PM criticized the surge, the constitution, and warned that Iraqi forces are not loyal to Iraq, but to sectarian militias.
Posted on Jul 25, 2008
The U.S. is currently spending between $55 and $66 billion a year on intelligence. So why can't we find Osama bin Laden?
Posted on Jul 18, 2008
With the world suspicious of American motives in world crises, U.S. policy toward Sudan and Zimbabwe is raising hackles.
Posted on Jul 15, 2008
In a stunning move, the Iraqi PM floats the idea of a timetable, while Bush -- and McCain -- continue to insist on indefinite occupation.
Posted on Jul 8, 2008
Raising eyebrows over his Iraq approach, a new report suggests Obama could recruit none other than Robert Gates if he becomes commander-in-chief.
Posted on Jun 29, 2008
The tragedy of the Haditha massacre in November 2005 has now been compounded by a judicial whitewash and coverup.
Posted on Jun 23, 2008
On a panel at the Center for a New American Security, two Obama advisors had clashing views on what the candidate's withdrawal plan might look like.
Posted on Jun 17, 2008
As the smoke clears over new rubble in Iraq's second city, the big winners are the forces of rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr
Posted on Apr 1, 2008
Washington's decision to topple Saddam's government has put in place a ruling elite that is far closer to Iran than it is to the United States.
Posted on Feb 26, 2008
Iraqi nationalists, opposed to the U.S. presence, are slowly gaining ground.
Posted on Jan 17, 2008
Who, exactly, are we fighting in Iraq? Why are we there? Nearly five years later, there are still no answers to the most basic questions about the Iraq occupation.
Posted on Nov 12, 2007
Iraqi nationalism is the only political force capable of uniting Sunni and Shiite Arabs and ending the sectarian civil war, but for the past four years the United States has systematically worked to suppress it.
Posted on Oct 22, 2007
Defense spending has nearly doubled since the mid-1990s, and Democrats willing to challenge the bloated Pentagon budget are essentially nonexistent.
Posted on Jun 6, 2007
Much of Washington assumes that withdrawing from Iraq will lead to a bigger bloodbath. We need to question that assumption.
Posted on Feb 19, 2007
Bush is discovering that boldly lying about Iran isn't enough. He needs his chorus of liars behind him ... and they're all gone.
Posted on Feb 15, 2007
Bush is still the Christian-crusader President, still lodged inside a bubble universe filled with neocon advisors -- and that means more troops in Iraq, even if the idea doesn't make a lick of sense.
Posted on Jan 6, 2007
Now the Dems must thunder from the pulpit, threatening to rain down hellfire, hail and brimstone on Republicans who want to stay the course.
Posted on Nov 8, 2006
The details of the so-called 'amnesty' deal show that the United States is not serious about forging peace in Iraq.
Posted on Jul 6, 2006
The time has passed for both 'bringing the troops home now' and continuing to stay the course in the lost cause of Iraq.
Posted on Jun 23, 2006
Since 2005, Dick Cheney's daughter Elizabeth has held a powerful position guiding Middle East policy. And like father, like daughter: Liz is a key player in the push for regime change in Iran and Syria.
Posted on Jun 13, 2006
Three years into the war, two ominous letters are making their appearance: The 'F' word (for failure) and the 'D' word (for defeat).
Posted on Apr 7, 2006
Iraq is no longer headed for civil war. It's there.
Posted on Mar 20, 2006
Americans, Iraqis and the international community must hold Bush and Cheney responsible for the destruction of Iraq.
Posted on Feb 24, 2006
Hamas' victory in the Palestinian elections is a disaster built on short-sighted policies by the PLO, Israel and the U.S.
Posted on Jan 28, 2006
Friday's election results make it nearly impossible to stop the country from descending into full-blown civil war.
Posted on Jan 25, 2006
The Cairo peace conference shows Iraq's factions are willing to do their part. Now it's time for the Bush administration to act.
Posted on Dec 2, 2005
After all the exposed lies and huge costs of Iraq, is it possible that America will let Bush get away with shattering another Middle East state?
Posted on Oct 25, 2005
The ferocity of Iraq's Shiite fundamentalist ruling clique has the Saudis worrying that a regional war may spill out of the bitter Shiite-Sunni conflict.
Posted on Oct 6, 2005
With the last shreds of Bush's credibility blown away by Katrina, expect momentum against the president to grow with each further U.S. casualty in Iraq.
Posted on Sep 8, 2005
The indictment of four men charged with spying on the U.S. for Israel may eventually implicate the conservatives who thumped the drums for war in Iraq.
Posted on Aug 12, 2005
Why have the media virtually ignored a credible memo indicating that the administration lied about its plans to wage war on Iraq and that it fixed the intelligence to do so?
Posted on May 23, 2005
The new regime cannot gain legitimacy without distancing itself from the United States -- and yet won't last a day without U.S. support.
Posted on Apr 21, 2005
Put in the hot seat by Republican members of the 9/11 commission, the former counterterrorism chief's testimony was measured, nuanced and devastating.
Posted on Mar 25, 2004
The Pentagon's new command for 'the homeland' is the latest major erosion in the separation of civil and military forces.
Posted on May 13, 2003
The Secretary of State now has a new list and you better not be on it. Multiplying lists of "terrorist" groups have emerged as a handy tool to suppress dissent.
Posted on Mar 14, 2002
A quarter century after the fall of Hanoi, the poisons sprayed by U.S. forces during the war are affecting a new generation of Vietnamese. Why won't Washington accept responsibility for the chemical weapon that keeps on killing?
Posted on Apr 1, 2000
