Media War Blurs Picture in Syria
BEIRUT -- Since pro-democracy protests began over two months ago, Syria has been engaged in a fierce media war -- with journalists arrested and international press banned from entering the country. This has severely curtailed the flow of information out of the...
Undefeated, Gaza’s Freedom Flotillas Expand
GAZA CITY -- A gleaming new memorial towers in the center of Gaza City's battered port. Flanked by flags of various nations whose citizens have sailed to the Gaza Strip to highlight the all-out siege on Gaza, the memorial's inscription bears the names of the Turkish...
Yemen: Living With an Endless Revolution
SANA'A -- It was during moments on our rooftop earlier this week -- seeing flashes in the air and hearing the heavy pounding of gun fire -- when we realized that Yemen's capital city Sana'a was no longer as safe as we had hoped. Violent killings were spreading fast...
Fears of Depleted Uranium Use in Libya
Wednesday: 13 Iraqis Killed, 31 Wounded
At least 13 Iraqis were killed and 31 more were wounded in new violence over the last two days. Also, two Iraqi refugees in Kentucky were charged with terrorism after the U.S. Justice Department said they had supported insurgents in Iraq. One man’s fingerprints had even been discovered on an unexploded bomb, but the information went unused for two years.
read moreObama Should Follow FDR’s Example in Dealing with Generals, Not Lincoln’s
Barack Obama, a president with no prior military experience, has so far cowered in the presence of the military and U.S. defense establishment. The most recent example is the passing-over of Gen. James “Hoss” Cartwright to take over the job of Adm. Mike Mullen,...
Worse Than a Third Bush Term?
If in 2008 someone had said that Obama's war policy would be more belligerent and costlier than another round of Bush's, nearly no one would have believed it. Bush started a preventive war in Iraq, killing hundreds of thousands without any credible correlation to U.S....
US Uses Peace Talks to Divide Taliban from Pakistan
The leaked reports over the past two weeks of a series of meetings between U.S. officials and a Taliban figure close to leader Mullah Omar seemed to point to real progress toward a negotiated settlement of the war in Afghanistan. But in fact the talks are part of a...
The Japanese Internment and the Betrayal of the ‘Progressives’
As libertarians know, and most of the rest of us suspect, government lies are as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, and the higher up we go the bigger the deception. Most of the time, we get the truth – if we get it – from whistleblowers, or renegade...
