Israel, Palestine: Where Commemorations Are Split
JERUSALEM - In Israel and Palestine memory is a split matter, depending on which side of the map you come from. Especially this May, as Israeli and Palestinian leaders restart negotiating a border acceptable to their peoples. In the past 20 years, both peoples have...
Dirty Linen Gets Intel Chief Fired
The Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation of how 23-year-old Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab soiled his underpants with a makeshift bomb over Detroit last Christmas hung out so much dirty linen on the crowded clothes line of the U.S. intelligence...
Friday: 56 Iraqis Killed, 158 Wounded
Pressure Mounts on N. Korea Over Warship Attack
Thursday's formal accusation by South Korea that a North Korean torpedo sunk the warship Cheonan, killing 46 South Korean sailors, has set off a flurry of activity in Washington as politicians and foreign policy experts try to identify an appropriate U.S. response...
Take the Deal, Mr. President
Of Drone Wars and Buffalo Urine
Attack of the Cyborg Insects
Putting the Pentagon on a Diet
When it comes to the Pentagon and the U.S. military, wherever you look, there's money being handed out. Wildly and in staggering amounts. Early this month, for instance, the U.S. Army announced that it had awarded KBR, the private contractor which was once part of...