Suicide Bombers Target Obama’s Withdrawal Plan
Torture? Rudman to the Rescue
The announcement in mid-March that CIA Director Leon Panetta had picked former Sen. Warren Rudman to act as CIA "liaison" with the Senate Intelligence Committee during its "review" of interrogation and detention practices has drawn virtually no...
Israelis Nervous Over Possible ‘Showdown’ With US
JERUSALEM -- Almost a full fortnight before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is received at the White House, and already political nerves here are all a-jangle. Is a showdown with Israel's staunch ally about to materialize? The country's mainstream media seem...
Obama’s First 100 Days: Mixed Messages On Torture
Wednesday: 20 Iraqis Killed, 84 Wounded
‘Democracy at Gunpoint’ Strategy Guarantees Defeat
An account from the Taliban side of the Afghanistan war, which was published in the New York Times on May 5, provides devastating evidence of the failure that almost certainly will eventually overtake the United States and NATO. It is a long interview with a young...
AIPAC Conference Pushes Hard Line on Iran
The annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the powerful and hawkish pro-Israel lobby, wrapped up on Tuesday with a speech from Vice President Joe Biden, capping three days that were primarily devoted to the threat of a nuclear Iran....