At least five Iraqis were killed 17 more were wounded in the latest violence. U.S. troops were involved in one incident where they killed a policeman and possibly a child.
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U.S. Moves Closer to Call for Regime Change in Syria
Amidst growing calls in Congress for stronger measures to effect "regime change" in Syria, the administration of President Barack Obama is escalating its rhetoric against President Bashar Al-Assad. "We do not want to see him remain in Syria for...
Thursday: 14 Iraqis KIlled, 20 Wounded
Rick Perry Abuses His Office for Israel
Jean-Jacques Rousseau described the reciprocal relationship between a government and its people as a “social contract.” Even from the first legal code by the Babylonian Hammurabi, one learns that the principal benefit that government bestows on the people is the...
Uncovering the Military’s Secret Military
In “Getting bin Laden,” Nicholas Schmidle’s New Yorker report on the assault on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, here’s the money sentence, according to Noah Shachtman of Wired Magazine’s Danger Room blog: “The Abbottabad raid was not DEVGRU’s...
Wednesday: 21 Iraqis Killed, 24 Wounded
At least 21 Iraqis were killed and 24 more were wounded across the country. Baghdad saw the greatest number of attacks, but Ramadi suffered the most significant one.
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Muslims in the United States express greater tolerance for members of other faiths than any other major religious group, according to a major new survey and report released Thursday by the Abu Dhabi Gallup Center. They are also more likely than any other religious...
Hawks Upset With Debt Deal
As both houses of Congress began debating the 11th-hour debt-limit deal hashed out Sunday night by senior lawmakers and the White House, neoconservatives and other national security hawks complained bitterly Monday that the final package may force major cuts in...
