Updated at 7:20 p.m. EDT, April, 16, 2008At least 28 Iraqis were killed and 47 more were wounded in the latest attacks. No Coalition deaths were reported. The U.S. military released a Pulitzer prizewinning photographer after holding him in prison for two years....
A new group of prominent U.S. Jews who believe that the so-called "Israel Lobby" has been dominated for too long by neoconservatives and other Likud-oriented hawks has launched a new organization to help fund political candidates who favor a two-state...
One of the leading voices of dissent inside the U.S. Army has been promoted. Sgt. Ronn Cantu – who signed a petition to Congress demanding the U.S. withdraw from Iraq and gave interviews to the news shows 60 Minutes and Democracy Now!, as well as IPS detailing...
Editorial note: What follows was intended as the new introduction to my first book, Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement, originally published by the Center for Libertarian Studies in 1993 and about to be reprinted by ISI Books....
Updated at 11:38 p.m. EDT, April 15, 2008The country was rocked by several car bombs as clashes resumed in Sadr City. At least 125 Iraqis were killed and 166 were wounded in the elevated violence. Also, two Marines were killed during combat operations in Anbar...
Despite renewed U.S. efforts to achieve an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement this year, popular views of the United States in the Arab world have actually worsened since 2006, according to a major new survey [.pdf] of public opinion in six Arab states. Nearly...
John Yoo, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, faces a dilemma. You might recall that he was one of the most controversial lawyers in the Bush administration's early years. Yoo was the deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal...
FALLUJAH - Fallujah remains a crippled city more than three years after the November 2004 U.S.-led assault. Unemployment and lack of medical care and safe drinking water in the city 35 mi. west of Baghdad remain a continuous problem. Freedom of movement is still...
In the more than five years since the George W. Bush administration's misdirected adventurism in Iraq, the fundamental balance of power in the Middle East has shifted. Iran's mullahs, once fearful of meeting the same fate as the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein,...
Updated at 12:15 a.m. EDT, April 15, 2008A British photojournalist held in captivity for two months was freed in Basra today. Meanwhile, 87 Iraqis were killed and another 142 were wounded in violent attacks. One American soldier was also killed during an IED attack in...
