Patriotism at the expense of another nation is as wicked as racism at the expense of another race...Let us resolve to be patriots always, nationalists never. – Rev. William Sloane Coffin On May 19th, the one-week anniversary of the Sichuan earthquake, the entire...
Updated at 5:20 p.m. EDT, May 29, 2008 At least 29 Iraqis were killed and 76 more were wounded in the latest attacks. The worst occurred in Sinjar. Several foreign fighters were also killed near Tikrit. No Coalition deaths were reported, but the army released figures...
LONDON - The annual report of Amnesty International (AI) released Wednesday holds the United States responsible for setting world standards on human rights -- and then failing in that task. "As the world's most powerful state, the USA sets the standard for...
When the world was young and hope dared live in Washington, a small group of people put together something called the Military Reform Movement. Its purpose was to measure defense policies and programs by the standard of what works in combat rather than who benefits...
With daily television coverage of suicide car-bomb attacks, ambushes, drive-by shootings, stabbings, and other Intifada-type attacks around the world, the question arises as to why al-Qaeda does not stage such small-scale but deadly operations in the United States....
Updated at 7:00 p.m. EDT, May 28, 2008Clashes reignited in Sadr City on an otherwise quiet day. At least 31 Iraqis were killed and 24 more were wounded in the latest violence. No Coalition deaths were reported. Meanwhile, the main Sunni political bloc has suspended...
Here are words to pin to the Bush years like a wilting corsage: "We don't know what we paid for." That's a quote from Mary Ugone, the Defense Department's deputy inspector general for auditing, concerning massive Pentagon payments made during the occupation and war in...
After the Chinese communists led by Mao Zedong won the civil war in China in 1949 and forced Chiang Kai-shek and his pro-American Chinese Nationalists to flee to Taiwan, U.S. Congress and the press started to debate the question: "Who Lost China?"...
Editor's note: As a 16th prisoner at Guantánamo, Noor Uthman Muhammed, is put forward for trial by military commission (the much-criticized system of trials for "terror suspects" invented in the wake of the 9/11 attacks), Andy Worthington, author of...
Arlington National Cemetery could almost be my backyard. I live right down the road from the new Air Force Memorial and not far from the Iwo Jima Memorial. The other memorials to those who served and fought in our nation's wars – the Navy Memorial (interestingly,...
