Last week, Republicans and Democrats in Congress joined President Barack Obama in congratulating themselves for taming the National Security Agency's voracious appetite for spying. By permitting one section of the Patriot Act to expire and by replacing it with the USA...
When George W. Bush put Iraq, Iran, and North Korea into his infamous “axis of evil” speech in 2002, the three countries seemed to have little to do with one another – except that Washington didn’t like them (and they didn’t like Washington). Iran and Iraq were...
U.S. President Barack Obama authorized the deployment of another 450 U.S. servicemembers to Iraq. The troops will transfer to al-Taqaddum military base near Habaniya. Baghdad Municipal councilman Mohammed al-Rubai claims that almost 70 percent of homes belonging to...
Jeb Bush – at barely over 10 percent in the polls – is acting as if he's already putting his preppy $500 loafers up on the Oval Office desk. Forget Iowa, and to heck with New Hampshire – he's off on a trip to Europe, where he'll reportedly echo the real President's...
Increased state surveillance can be thought of in several different ways, depending on where you stand. Described uncharitably, it’s a Faustian bargain that dissolves from within the very liberty and democracy it’s meant to defend. Viewed less negatively, it’s a...
A quiet meeting this past March in Saudi Arabia, and a recent anonymous leak from the Israeli military, set the stage for what may be a new and wider war in the Middle East. Gathering in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh were Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan,...
The United States government is considering expanding training sites in Iraq, which would require hundreds more U.S. troops, but the overall military strategy will go unchanged. Parliamentary Speaker Salim al-Jabouri said today that three things are needed to defeat...
“9/11: Never forget,” the tee-shirts insisted. “Have you forgotten how it felt that day?” the country crooner warbled. “September 11th… global terrorism!” the candidate for President of 9/11, Rudolph Giuliani, endlessly repeated. To this day we are bombarded with such...
Many Americans have been heard to mimic the media's disdain for partisan gridlock in Washington, but because Congress and the president often do the wrong thing, it's often better when nothing is done. For example, after the Congress's inaction recently allowed...
