"What Would America Fight For?" That question shouts from the cover of this week's Economist. It is, asserts the magazine, "the question haunting its allies." While most agree that America would fight to defend her treaty allies and to protect vital interests if...
Security Forces Focus of Attacks That Leave 36 Dead, 46 Wounded
In Anbar: In Falluja, shelling and air strikes left 15 dead and 11 wounded. A bomb targeted a security official's home in Haditha, wounding his wife and two children. Two policemen were killed and a third one was wounded in Hit when gunmen attacked their checkpoint....
Syrian Split Divides Christians
QAMISHLI, Syria - Malki Hana says his men are afraid of cameras. “Most of them are army defectors and they may easily get in trouble,” says this commander of a mostly unknown armed group in Syria. From his headquarters in Derik, 700 km northeast of Damascus,...
Odessa: Ukraine’s Waco
The murder of at least 38 people in the city of Odessa in the midst of Kiev’s "anti-terrorist" offensive last Friday revealed the true face of the fascist regime that has seized power in Kiev – and the Western media is doing everything it can to cover up the...
Bloody Attacks Continue in Iraq: 56 Killed, 54 Wounded
Pilgrims Targeted in Northern Iraq; 43 Killed, 60 Wounded
Deja Russia All Over Again
Rarely is daytime TV on in our house and C-Span is little more serious than other fare with sinecuristas and wonks and bureaucrats declaiming how with just one more tranche of moolah no child will be left behind nor suffer bullying or some other curse. Passing by the...
Fresh Attacks, Clashes Leave 26 Dead, 32 Wounded Across Iraq
Palestinian Unity: Hope and Gloom in the Beach Refugee Camp
For years, Palestinian factions have strived for unity, and for years unity has evaded them. But is it possible that following several failed attempts, Fatah and Hamas have finally found that elusive middle ground? And if they have done so, why, to what end, and at...
Showdown at the Foreign Policy Corral
Yet another national poll shows Americans want their government to be "less active" overseas. In 2001, the same pollsters asked people the same question less than a week before 9/11: 14 percent gave the "less active" answer. That more than a decade...


