"The War on Truth" seems to be an appropriate name for the propaganda war waged in the theater of global media over the real war in the eastern Ukraine. I have borrowed the title from an op-ed article in the New York Times by Keith Darden. This particular...

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki refused to step away from his candidacy for prime minister today, even as his political rival, Osama al-Nujaifi, promised to not run for speaker of the house again. This inflexibility on the part of the premier could mean a long battle to create the new Iraq government. It is a battle that can only help Islamic State militants push forward in Iraq. At least 33 people were killed 22 more were wounded in the latest violence.

It doesn’t take a PhD in Sociology to conclude that Iraq was better off with Saddam Hussein than it is today. It’s not that Saddam was a great leader without blood on his hands. It’s just that what six US presidents have done to Iraq over the past 35 years has been...

When I was a youngster we still had a school assembly at the eleventh hour, on the eleventh day, of the eleventh month and stood silent for a full minute to remember the fallen from World War One. Given the modern world has no time to waste even a second on the dead I...

The controversy over the "reinterpretation" of the Japanese constitution – which would allow the military to engage in "collective defense" overseas – is itself being misinterpreted. Instead of signaling a revival of Japanese nationalism, it is in...

Most of the 141 people reported killed today were militants. A policeman was wounded in a shooting.

The following letter by GOP Congressman Walter Jones of North Carolina was written in support of an editorial published in the Greenwood Commonwealth.To the editor: I write in agreement with the following statement from the June 20 editorial in the Greenwood...

After a brief holiday last week, I returned to some heavy reading courtesy of the federal government. Some of the materials that I read were gratifying, and one was terrifying. In one week, the Supreme Court told the police that if they want to examine the contents of...

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko – by thumbing his nose at the leaders of Russia, Germany and France as they repeatedly appealed to him to renew the fragile ceasefire in eastern Ukraine – has left himself and his U.S. patrons isolated, though that’s not the...

One of the easiest ways to confirm that there is no difference between (mainstream) Republicans and Democrats is to compare the latter’s vision of perfectible economic meddling with the former’s right-wing dreamworld of international democracy and low, low oil prices....