Start of the Season
It looked like a scene from an opera. Massed in the doorway and second floor balconies of a quaint building in Athens, facing a magnificent view of the Parthenon, Spanish activists hung banners and flashed peace signs and proclaimed that they wouldn't leave the...
Friday: 6 Iraqis Killed, 11 Wounded
At least six Iraqis were killed and 11 more were wounded in today's violence. Meanwhile, hundreds demonstrated in Baghdad. Two soldiers were killed and three more were wounded during a blast in Abu Ghraib. Two Sahwa members were killed in a drive-by shooting in Jurf...
South Sudan’s Independence Clouded by Unresolved Issues
Two days before celebrating the independence of South Sudan in Juba, senior U.S. officials warned Thursday that unresolved issues between the new country and Khartoum, as well as ongoing conflicts along or near their common border, threaten the stability of both...
The Lies That Sold Obama’s Escalation in Afghanistan
A few days after Barack Obama's December 2009 announcement of 33,000 more troops being sent to Afghanistan, in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Defense Secretary Robert Gates advanced the official justification for escalation: the Afghan Taliban...
Bradley Manning, American Hero
America, Won’t You Please Come Home?
Thursday: 2 U.S. Soldiers, 4 Iraqis Killed; 11 Wounded
At least four Iraqis were killed and 11 more were wounded in the latest attacks. Two U.S. soldiers were killed in an E.F.P attack outside Victory Base Camp as well.
read moreThe Ism That Won’t Go Away
Recent anthropological studies of the Turkana people, “a nomadic society in east Africa that lacks a centralized government,” find that they can “regularly muster armies of several hundred warriors, most of whom have never met before” by relying on fear of punishment...
All’s ‘Fare’ in War
Even governments can learn from their mistakes. The United States went into Iraq and Afghanistan with Army and Marine divisions and the result has been disastrous, with hundreds of thousands dead and Washington on the verge of bankruptcy. Nor has the result been...
