Updated at 8:59 p.m. EST, Dec. 28, 2008Thousands of Iraqis demonstrated against an Israeli operation that has so far left almost 300 Palestinians dead. Although most of the protests were peaceful, a suicide bomber took advantage of one anti-Israel demonstration in...
Saturday: 31 Iraqis Killed, 76 Wounded
Baghdad suffered a significant attack in the Shi'ite enclave of Khadamiya, but there were also notable attacks elsewhere. At least 31 Iraqis were killed and 76 more were wounded across the country. No Coalition deaths were reported. In Baghdad, 25 people were killed...
Back to ‘Globalism’
It appears increasingly likely that the Obama-Biden-Hillary administration will also adopt a Bubba-Gore-Hillary article of faith, namely that the 21st Century would see the end of the nation-state. Acting on that belief, Bubba-Gore attempted to hand over to the United...
Suspected Pakistan Terror Group Will Challenge UN Ban
KARACHI - Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD), the Pakistani organization on which the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) imposed sanctions two weeks ago, on suspicion of being involved in terror activity, insists that it is a charity and that it will challenge the ban at the...
Unscripted: Green Zone Theater and the Shoe Drama
The plot, so unexpectedly, thickened in Iraq on a Sunday like no other. The two main actors – US President George W. Bush, and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki – took to the stage to perform another well-rehearsed press conference. The scripts were ever...
Lame Duck Bush Administration Continues to Inflame Islamist Terrorism
Although media coverage has focused on US occupations and counterinsurgency/counterterrorist campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq – which had the perverse result of further inflaming Islamist radicalism – the Bush administration has been busy stirring that same...
Gaza Voices, American Silence
Author's note: Just after this article was written, it became evident that Israel is likely to launch at least a limited attack on Gaza, which only heightens the sense of urgency for action that is advocated here. The baby is crying again. You wake up. Cold....
Friday: 26 Iraqis Killed, 18 Wounded
Updated at 5:45 p.m. EST, Dec. 26, 2008At least 26 Iraqis were killed and 18 more were wounded in the latest round of violence. No Coalition deaths were reported. Sixteen people were killed in Ramadi during a jailbreak at a local police station. Six policemen were...
Feinstein: Bad Choice for Intelligence
Ignoring the pleas of those calling for a more credible figure, Senate Democrats have instead chosen Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to lead the Senate Committee on Intelligence. Feinstein was among those who falsely claimed in 2002 – despite the lack of any apparent...
The Ten Lies of Dick Cheney
On December 11, the Senate Armed Services Committee issued a compelling report into the torture and abuse of prisoners in US custody (PDF), based on a detailed analysis of how Chinese torture techniques, which are used in US military schools to train personnel to...