All Options, Still, on the Table
During the press conference at the Pentagon on Tuesday, April 6th, announcing the Obama Administration's new "Nuclear Posture Review" (NPR), Secretary of Defense Robert Gates momentarily brandished America's sharp nuclear teeth. In doing so, he caused the...
How Brainy Is Obama?
Back to Kyrgyzstan
Bringing a Battle to Their Kids
There are certainly many gut-wrenching scenes in the "Collateral Murder" Wikileaks video currently making huge waves on the internet. Though even the hardcore U.S. military apologentsia are having a (relatively) hard time justifying the slaughter of the...
New Kyrgyz Leaders Say US Can Use Air Base
Kyrgyzstan's new leaders sought to reassure Washington Thursday that it can continue to use the strategic Manas airbase near the capital Bishkek as a supply link for U.S. operations in Afghanistan. Roza Otunbayeva, the head of the interim government, told reporters in...
Thursday: 2 US Soldiers, 9 Iraqis Killed; 17 Iraqis Wounded
Kyrgyzstan Revolution Threatens Afghanistan War’s Premier Air Hub
Kyrgyzstan has entered a phase of uncertainty with a new opposition-led government in place following two days of street clashes between police and anti-government protestors. Some opposition leaders have called for the closure of a U.S. airbase in the country that is...
Obama Said to Mull Israel-Palestinian Peace Plan
Amid still-unresolved tensions over Jewish settlement expansion in East Jerusalem, two major publications reported Wednesday that President Barack Obama is seriously considering proposing later this year a U.S. peace plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict....
Afghan Official Says US Raiders Hid Killings
The head of the Afghan Ministry of Interior investigation said publicly for the first time his investigators had accepted the testimony of family members of the victims of the Feb. 12 raid by U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) that the U.S. troops had dug bullets...