America is an amazing place – one of the wealthiest and freest nations on earth. Yet because Europe has so many more cultures and languages in one contained area, Americans, compared to their European brethren, seem like country bumpkins in their knowledge and...
The USS Cole isn't engaged in a sightseeing tour of the Eastern Mediterranean: its sudden deployment just "over the horizon" near Lebanon – in tandem with two other warships – is a clear sign that the Americans are preparing for something big. That's what...
End the Cuban Embargo [T]he United States' policy is based on the carrot and stick approach. The embargo is stick, and removing it is the carrot. We want something from Cuba that only the Castro brothers can give, and that's the release of political prisoners and...
Updated at 11:53 p.m. EST, March 2, 2008The U.S. military reported killing a Saudi national believed to be a leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. Meanwhile, Sunnis held demonstrations against the President Ahmadinejad's visit as Shi'ites welcomed the Iranian leader. In the...
Updated at 5:50 p.m. EST, March 1, 2008At least 15 Iraqis were killed and 21 others were wounded in the latest round of violence; a British airman was also killed during a rocket attack in Basra. Meanwhile, in Diyala province, Awakening Council members returned to...
Sisyphus was a character in Greek mythology, condemned to roll a huge rock to the top of a steep hill, with said accursed rock rolling back down again the moment Sisyphus thought he had accomplished his task. In the modern version of this Greek tragedy, G. Aghazadeh,...
Another high-ranking George W. Bush administration official has resigned. The Department of Veterans Affairs Undersecretary for Benefits Daniel Cooper quit Thursday amid mounting criticism over a backlog of disability claims for injured veterans that runs six months...
Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, as they demonstrated in this week's televised presidential debate, are firmly against the war in Iraq — Barack earlier but Hillary even more firmly than before. At least that's what they say. It's worth remembering that at a...
BAQUBA - US backed Sahwa forces threaten to destabilize US-backed Iraqi government forces in Iraq's volatile Diyala province. The "Awakening Councils," known locally as the Sahwa, have left their centers in cities and districts around the capital of Diyala...
BAQUBA - New plant diseases, attacks by occupation forces and escalating fuel prices are strangling farmers in Diyala province. Prior to the US-led invasion of March 2003, farmers in Baquba, the capital city of Diyala province 40 km northeast of Baghdad, struggled...
