"Of all the tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive." -C.S. Lewis Caught up in the televised drama of a military-style manhunt for the suspects in the Boston Marathon explosion, most Americans fail to realize that...
Ten years and the scripted media narrative of the Iraq War -- now receding into the rear-view of our embarrassingly short American memory -- is about as satisfying as the obligatory drum solo at your standard 1980’s rock concert. In other words, a milquetoast,...
“Three interrogators questioned me for three hours. I was handcuffed. They beat me, slapped me, kicked me, boxed me, accused me of throwing stones; played a video of a demonstration. I denied I was there. So again, they beat me up,” recounts Zein Abu-Mariya, 17,...
Clashes in Mosul left one soldier dead and another wounded. Three soldiers were wounded in a bombing. An explosion wounded a member of the Bani Saad council. In Baghdad, a bomb wounded three people. A blast near a mosque in Sadr City wounded one person. In Mahaweel, a...
It has been abundantly clear to those who closely follow the political developments in the Middle East that, for at least two decades, Israeli politics has been moving continuously toward extreme, reactionary right. The left, and the center-left represented by the...
This week, as Americans were horrified by the attacks in Boston, both houses of Congress considered legislation undermining our liberty in the name of “safety.” Gun control continued to be the focus of the Senate, where an amendment expanding federal “background...
The investigation into the Boston Marathon terrorist attack is now focused on what is the most important question: Did they act alone? In my view, the answer is no. To begin with, the brothers engaged in a firefight with police and held their own, throwing bombs at...
I almost choked on my coffee listening to neoconservative Rudy Giuliani pompously claim on national TV that he was surprised about any Chechens being responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings because he’s never seen any indication that Chechen extremists...
A bomb at a kebob shop in Falluja killed nine people and wounded at least 24 more. Two soldiers were killed and seven more were wounded during a mortar attack at their barracks in al-Khafsa. An al-Qaeda leader was killed during a raid in Rabeaa, while his aide and...
