Stories by Reese Erlich
In this excerpt from his new book,
The Iran Agenda, veteran independent journalist Reese Erlich challenges the conventional wisdom on Iran's nuclear ambitions.
Posted on Dec 7, 2007
Half the warships in the U.S. Navy now sit within striking distance of the country, and Bush and Cheney have stepped up their anti-Iran rhetoric.
Posted on Oct 3, 2007
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.
Posted on Apr 19, 2007
At the Barbados Jazz Festival, a glimpse at one unintended drawback of the U.S. embargo on Cuba: even musicians get stopped at the border.
Posted on May 31, 2006
Jazz music was the sound of protest long before rock 'n' roll took over the airwaves, and today's jazz artists are carrying on the tradition.
Posted on May 31, 2006
The people of Nepal have taken to the streets in an unprecedented call for democracy. So why has the U.S. turned a blind eye to the uprising?
Posted on Apr 20, 2006
The father of a 9/11 victim transforms his personal tragedy into hope for the people of Afghanistan.
Posted on Feb 6, 2004
The Bush administration's much-touted proposal to create a free trade zone in the Middle East has few takers.
Posted on Jul 16, 2003
A whistlestop tour of Middle East terrorist groups shows that the Iraq war is having the opposite effect of what Team Bush intended.
Posted on Jul 8, 2003
Foreign correspondents in Iraq soon learn that the higher up you go in the journalistic feeding chain, the less free the reporting.
Posted on Feb 28, 2003
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.
Posted on May 22, 2002
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.
Posted on May 1, 2002
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.
Posted on Feb 14, 2002
"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."
Posted on Jun 20, 2000
