Updated at 7:58 p.m. EDT, Apr. 16, 2009
At least 17 Iraqis were killed and 8 were wounded in the latest violence. U.S. forces conducted a pair of raids in different parts of Iraq. One of the raids has the potential for blowing up politically as the Iraqi’s are calling it a violation of a security pact between the U.S. and Iraq. No Coalition deaths were reported.
Updated at 5:25 p.m. EDT, Apr. 25, 2009
At least 15 Iraqis were killed and 22 more were wounded in the latest attacks. Although no significant blasts took place today, security forces were busy at work defusing bombs. One American soldier was killed in combat but no details were given.
At least three dozen detainees who were held in the CIA’s secret prisons overseas appear to be missing – and efforts by human rights organizations to track their whereabouts have been unsuccessful. The story of these "ghost prisoners" was comprehensively documented last week by Pro Publica, an online investigative journalism group. In September 2007, Michael …
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Scott Horton interviews Jeff Stein
A big confrontation is brewing between the United States and Israel’s new government over the Palestine issue. Since his first days in office, President Barack Obama has expressed clear support for speedy action toward the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel. Since then, he and his key advisers — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton …
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Ivan Eland gives the president a ‘D’ so far
As the debate heats up over what to do about recent disclosures of widespread abuse of war-on-terror prisoners, the “third branch” of the U.S. government — the judiciary — continues to assert its independence from the other two branches — the executive and the legislative. In one recent decision, a federal court has refused the …
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Does NK really threaten us? wonders Gordon Prather
Updated at 8:36 p.m. EDT, Apr. 24, 2009
A second day of bomb attacks left more than 93 killed and another 163 wounded. Again, a significant number of the dead were Iranian pilgrims visiting shrines in Iraq. Elsewhere, a U.S. soldier died in a non-combat incident. Meanwhile, the arrest of Abu Omar al-Baghdadi remains unconfirmed.
She should step down, says Justin Raimondo
