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With the United States and its allies facing an escalating guerrilla war of resistance to its occupation of Iraq, more and more people are starting to see similarities between the Iraq war and the US war in Vietnam in the 1960s and

At a White House press conference on October 10, US President George Bush announced new punitive measures against socialist Cuba, including new steps to enforce Washington's 41-year-old trade embargo against the island, stricter

While French President Jacques Chirac used the opportunity of his speech to the UN General Assembly on September 23 to criticise Washington's decision to invade Iraq without UN Security Council authorisation, he also indicated that

Two weeks after Prime Minister John Howard denied that his government had received requests from Washington to increase the number of Australian troops in Iraq, he announced on September 8 that US President George Bush had accepted

Desperate to reduce the burden on US troops in trying to suppress armed resistance to its occupation of Iraq, President George Bush's administration is pushing for a new UN Security Council resolution that would provide political

On August 31, Peter McPherson, a former Bank of America executive, close friend of US Vice-President Dick Cheney and, today, the top US economic "adviser" in Iraq, announced that the US-dominated Coalition Provisional Authority

In the wake of the August 19 truck bombing of the United Nations mission in Baghdad, US President George Bush's administration is coming under increased pressure from within the US ruling elite to boost the number of troops in Iraq

"Susan Schuman's son writes home from Iraq complaining of poor living conditions, skimpy water rations and dozens of daily attacks on US troops that go unreported. The mother of a Massachusetts National Guardsman stationed in Iraq

The gushing tributes made by the warmakers in Washington, London and Canberra for the United Nations "special representative" in Iraq, Sergio Viera de Mello, provided an answer as to why Iraqi patriots would target the UN mission

With Iraqi resistance fighters inflicting casualties on the US and British occupation troops almost daily, and with the US administration's justification for invading Iraq — its alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction

With US public support for the occupation of Iraq evaporating as the death toll among US soldiers continues to rise, due to persistent Iraqi guerrilla attacks, Washington is seeking more countries to participate in the occupation.

While preaching "non-proliferation" of weapons of mass destruction to underdeveloped countries — and using allegations of WMD development as a justification for invading Iraq and threatening to attack North Korea, Iran and Syria