An exclusive club of the world's most developed countries is poised to admit Israel as a member even though, a confidential internal document indicates, doing so will amount to endorsing Israel's illegal occupation of Palestinian and Syrian territories. Israel has...
ACLU Ad Challenges Military Commissions
Civil libertarians hit back hard Sunday at reports indicating that the Barack Obama administration is about to cave in to pressure from Congress and local groups in New York City and is not only considering transferring the cases of suspected terrorists to another...
Monday: 6 Iraqis Wounded
The Trial of Azzam the American
Author’s note: It now looks like the subject of this column, the "top al-Qaeda commander" arrested in Pakistan, is not Adam Gadahn: CBS News is reporting that the original story was "false." Instead, the man arrested has been tentatively identified as Abu Yahya...
Mullen Wary of Israeli Attack on Iran
Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, came home with sweaty palms from his mid-February visit to Israel. He has been worrying aloud that Israel will mousetrap the U.S. into war with Iran. This is of particular concern because Mullen has had...
Sunday: 55 Iraqis Killed, 157 Wounded
Saturday: 4 Iraqis, 4 Iranians Killed; 20 Iraqis, 34 Iranians Wounded
Senate Debates Indefinite Detentions
Civil liberties advocates and U.S. constitutional law scholars lost no time in condemning proposed legislation introduced in the Senate Thursday that would hand the government the power to indefinitely detain terrorism suspects without charge and to conduct trials...
The Show Goes On
Palestinian Homes on ‘David’s Garden’ Spared for Now
SILWAN, East Jerusalem - Outside the Bedouin-style protest tent in the heart of this Palestinian neighborhood, the anger is palpable, but controlled. Muhammad (surname undisclosed) turns to an Israeli TV reporter: "Would you agree to have your neighbor’s house...