Hallelujah! The International Atomic Energy Agency has, once again, verified "the non-diversion of declared nuclear material in Iran." It seems the Iranians continue to provide the IAEA access to all "special nuclear materials" – as proscribed...
Two US Army deserters who fled to Canada and sought refugee status on grounds of their opposition to the war in Iraq have lost their bids to have the Supreme Court of Canada hear their cases. The court refused to hear the appeals of Jeremy Hinzman and Brandon Hughey...
The United Nations atomic watchdog issued a report Thursday saying that Iran had been generally truthful about key aspects of its past nuclear activities, but warned that knowledge of Tehran's program was "diminishing." The International Atomic Energy Agency...
It is long past time for American politicians to quit carrying water for the state of Israel and its powerful U.S. lobby. Congress' craven obedience to the lobby is a disgrace. America's strategic interests in the Middle East lie with the Arab countries. Israel is a...
Updated at 12:15 a.m. EST, Nov. 17, 2007A large U.S.-Iraqi raid on two villages south of the capital marked an otherwise quiet prayer day. Overall, 22 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 24 more were wounded. One U.S. soldier was killed in a vehicular accident while...
American thinker George Santayana once observed: "Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it." And German political philosopher Karl Marx, who had studied the policy miscalculations made by the European leaders of the 19th century, mused:...
Amid growing polarization between President Gen. Pervez Musharraf and Pakistan's civilian opposition forces, US hopes of salvaging a power-sharing accord that would marry the military dictator to former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto are fading fast. Indeed, Bhutto's...
I had to laugh, albeit bitterly, when I saw the headline: "Democrats vow not to be bullied by Bush on Iraq." Oh, the poor dears, are those dastardly Republicans kicking sand in their faces? That wimpishness just about sums up the style and spirit of the...
The decline of the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar – approaching ten percent this year – contributes to broader American anxiety about the U.S. economy. Despite the stock market's high level and many economists' reassurances that the economy is...
BAQUBA - Facing violence, unemployment and poverty, the capital city of Iraq's volatile Diyala province now finds itself confronting corruption. This follows the failed promises of reform, reconstruction and rehabilitation at the beginning of the US occupation of...
