Amid all the brouhaha about how the downfall of Hosni Mubarak would provide the oh-so-scary Muslim Brotherhood with an opening to create an Islamic theocracy along Iranian lines, take a look at what's happening in US-occupied Iraq: “The Iraqi Ministry of Education has...
Almost one year ago Victor Gilinsky and Roger J. Mattson penned the stunning article "Revisiting the NUMEC Affair" in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. It describes how in the 1960s Israeli agents and their U.S. collaborators stole highly enriched uranium from the...
A recent poll on deficit reduction takes an interesting approach to querying the public about policy options: First it informs participants about actual spending levels in discretionary accounts and then asks them to apply reductions, account by account. The result: a...
As we've watched the dramatic events in the Middle East, you would hardly know that we had a thing to do with them. Oh, yes, in the name of its War on Terror, Washington had for years backed most of the thuggish governments now under siege or anxious that they may be...
The central justification of the U.S.-NATO war against the Afghan Taliban – that the Taliban would allow al-Qaeda to return to Afghanistan – has been challenged by new historical evidence of offers by the Taliban leadership to reconcile with the Hamid Karzai...
Only four days ago, the administration of President Barack Obama appeared to be siding with the hundreds of thousands of Egyptian demonstrators calling for a quick end to Hosni Mubarak's 30-year reign, even if it didn't call explicitly for the Egyptian president to...
Listen to Rep. Ron Paul deliver this address here. The events in Egypt of late have captured the attention of the world, as many thousands of Egyptians take to the streets both in opposition to and in favor of the current regime. We watch from a distance hoping that...
As a native Egyptian who left seeking opportunities for a better, more humane life unavailable under Mubarak's rule, I see the events currently unfolding in Egypt as both surreal and inevitable. It all began in 1975, when Anwar El Sadat chose an inconspicuous...
