Cleansing Halliburton
It might be terrible times for so many companies suffering through a global economic meltdown, but in the war zone, there seems to be no recession in sight. In fact, with "Obama's war" in the expanding Afghanistan/Pakistan theater of operations revving up, there's...
Bloody New Battles Suit Israel
RAMALLAH - The inevitable has happened. Simmering tensions between rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah have left six Palestinians dead, in the bloodiest confrontation between the two groups since Hamas ousted Fatah from Gaza in June 2007. A bloody gun battle...
Empire of Dread
Don’t Forget, Israel Is a Democracy
Free the Guantánamo Uighurs!
On Friday, court-watchers received some deeply depressing news – 33 pages of unconstitutional hogwash directed at the Supreme Court by President Obama's Justice Department [.pdf], in which no stone of dubious legality was left unturned in the administration's...
Dream Big! Become an Israeli Spy!
A couple of days ago, during a pleasant lunch-hour chat, my good friend treated me to a charming story about his 8-year-old son. Essentially, the story involved my friend asking his son what he wanted to be when he grew up, and the son responded, with endearing,...
Sunday: 2 US Soldiers, 9 Iraqis Killed; 19 Iraqis Wounded
Saturday: 8 Iraqis Killed, 10 Wounded
Israel Threatens to Outlaw Palestinian Memory
JERUSALEM - Israel is set to approve a radical new bill that threatens to legalize discrimination against its sizable Arab minority for the first time. The bill, approved this week by the ministerial committee for legislation, would make it illegal to relate to the...