Fort Benning, GA - Army National Guard Specialist Katherine Jashinski, on active duty with the 111th ASG since January of this year, will make a public statement Thursday against war as a conscientious objector in the face of orders to participate in weapons training...
NEW DELHI - Indian leaders are finding, to their dismay, that they confront far tougher choices in implementing a controversial nuclear agreement they signed with the United States than they had bargained for. These choices pertain to a sequence of steps New Delhi...
The details revealed thus far from the investigation that led to the five-count indictment against I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby seem to indicate that the efforts to expose the identity of undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson went far beyond the chief assistant to...
A 'Legal' US Nuclear Attack Against IranIt's much worse than that. This is self-fulfilling prophecy.The Iranians know what's going on: Whatever evidence Iran provides will be dismissed as lies by the U.S. Like Iraq, no denial or evidence will ever be sufficient. The...
The recent Senate vote to require regular reports from the White House detailing all the wonderful "progress" we're making over there was more reflective of a desire to cover their asses as election time approaches than it was of growing antiwar sentiment in the U.S....
Although he dislikes foreign travel and formal summits, U.S. President George W. Bush must be relieved to be spending this week as an honored guest in several Asian capitals. According to the stereotype, Asians are unfailingly polite. The same can no longer be said...
If you are like me and you've been following the news on a regular basis for a while, say, 20 or 30 years, the chances are that whether it was 1977 (when you got married), 1986 (when your kid was nine years old), or 2003 (when the grandkid was on the way), you were...
We know one thing about the Bush administration: despite the president's Veterans Day speech on the "irresponsibility" of "rewriting history," he and his top officials – possibly the greatest gamblers in our history – had no hesitation about writing their...
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As U.S. President George W. Bush's poll numbers plummet, questions about how his administration "sold" the invasion of Iraq to the public and its treatment of prisoners seized in the "war on terror" continue to dog the beleaguered president,...
