The title of the agreement, signed by President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki in a "video conference" last week, and carefully labeled as a "non-binding" set of principles for further negotiations, was a mouthful: a "Declaration of Principles for a Long-Term...
Americanism: The Fourth Great Western Religion David Gelernter Doubleday, 2007 240 pp. David Gelernter, the Yale University computer science professor known for surviving a bomb attack by the Unabomber, has written a fascinating book, Americanism: The Fourth Great...
Updated at 11:00 p.m. EST, Dec. 2, 2007At least 53 Iraqis were killed or found dead and another 33 were wounded in the lastest round of violence. A mass grave was found in Fallujah and over a dozen people were wounded during a car bombing in Baquba. No Coalition...
The Czech government has begun an 890,000-dollar information campaign supporting the U.S. plan to set up a radar station in the Czech Republic. Opponents of the plan – led by the Social Democrats – want some of that money to fund alternative information...
Updated at 12:27 a.m. EST, Dec. 2, 2007At least 40 Iraqis were killed and 46 more wounded during the latest violence. One U.S. soldier was also killed. Meanwhile, Sunni lawmakers walked out of parliament to protest the house arrest of their leader, while the Interior...
Years ago Stratfor.com, the private intelligence service and Web site, maintained that the real purpose of the Iraq war was to establish permanent U.S . bases in Iraq, to serve as forward staging areas for future forays in the world wide "war on terror," in someplace...
US war veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan have announced they're planning to descend on Washington, DC this March to testify about war crimes they committed or personally witnessed in Iraq. "The war in Iraq is not covered to its potential because of how dangerous...
It was initially billed as a "peace conference" to decisively address the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. But as President George W. Bush's ambitious Annapolis gathering approached – his most intensive effort to restart peace talks in seven years –...
Don't bet on peace coming out of President Bush's much-belated efforts to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. For one thing, the people whom the Palestinians elected to represent them are excluded. President Bush, hypocrite that he is, blathered about democracy,...
Ho-Ho-Ho. Halloween has now ushered in the year-end shopping season (formerly known as Christmas). We're supposed to deck the malls with boughs of holly. So it's a bit surprising that ABC News has picked-up (uncritically) a Associated Press "report" that...
