In this excerpt from his new book, The Iran Agenda, veteran independent journalist Reese Erlich challenges the conventional wisdom on Iran's nuclear ambitions.
At the moment, a group of Iranian Kurdish guerrillas -- about half of them women -- may be the closest thing the Bush administration has to an ally in its confrontation with Tehran.
In an attempt to kill coca leaf -- the raw material for cocaine -- Colombian planes are using a U.S.-manufactured herbicide near the border with Ecuador, killing crops and poisoning residents.
The sharp rise in Afghan heroin smuggling is more than a byproduct of a chaotic war. It’s a direct result of U.S. policy, according to high-ranking Pakistani military officials and sources in the drug trade.
A delegation of Americans who lost relatives on Sept. 11 just returned from a visit to Afghanistan, where they investigated the U.S. bombing and established a fund for war victims.
"I was staying at a highly reputable hotel, trying to get some writing done when I heard some interesting sounds coming from the room next door. So interesting, in fact, that I assumed the people making the ruckus weren't married."
