Ian Williams is the author of Deserter: Bush’s War on Military Families, Veterans and His Past, now available from Nation Books.

Born in Liverpool, UK, Britain Ian Williams graduated from Liverpool University despite several years’ suspension for protests against its investments in South Africa. Consequently, he had a variegated career path, which included a drinking competition with Chou En Lai and an argument about English literature with Mme Mao and being a rail workers’ union executive, before taking up journalism, briefly taking time off to be a speech/article writer for British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock in the 1987 election campaign. He has been in New York since 1989.

He has written for newspapers and magazines around the world, ranging from the Australian, to The Independent, from the New York Observer and the Village Voice to the New Statesman and Newsday, to the Financial Times and the Guardian.  He is the UN correspondent for the Nation, Tribune, and Middle East International and a frequent contributor to In These Times.

He has also “pundited” on BBC, CNN, MSNBC, FOX, CBC and innumerable radio stations, for example appearing on “Chris Matthew’s Hard Ball,” “the O’Reilly Factor,” and Wolf Blitzer. Online he writes for Salon, AlterNet and MaximsNews, among many others. He has recently launched the Deadline Pundit blog.

More details at www.ianwilliams.info and www.rumspiritof1776.com.

You Can’t Handle the Truth
George W. Bush, Liar-in-Chief
Ian Williams
Dispatch
Bolton vs. United Nations
Bush's mad cop–bad cop ruse
Ian Williams
Feature
Bushs War Against the Military
Ian Williams
Culture
Deserter at the Helm!
Ian Williams
Culture
The Sorrows of Dogma
Ian Williams
Dispatch
Re-United Nations
U.S. admits U.N. role necessary for laying the electoral groundwork in Iraq
Ian Williams
Dispatch
Not So Special
Protests question Bush-Blair lovefest
Ian Williams
Feature
Intervene with Caution
Ian Williams
Feature
Operation Desert Mirage
Americans may have already forgotten about weapons of mass destruction, but the United Nations hasn’t—and it’s demanding answers
Ian Williams
Culture
You Call This Victory?
Ian Williams
Feature
Bush vs. the World
Why Washington can’t go it alone
Ian Williams
Feature
Bush Bullies the World
Outrage at the arrogant administration won't stop the war juggernaut
Ian Williams
Culture
Why Hitchens Matters
Ian Williams
Feature
UNilateral Moves
Washington Draws up a Hit List at the United Nations.
Ian Williams