Rep. Peter King (R-New York) is the kind of in-your-face demagogue that only the state of New York could have elevated to high office. From his perch in the 3rd congressional district, in Long Island, King holds forth like a cruder version of Rudolph Giuliani, if you...
Sunday: 7 Iraqis Wounded
Saturday: 4 Iraqis Killed, 10 Wounded
Friday: 8 Iraqis Killed, 4 Wounded
Rand Paul, Eugene McCarthy, and the ‘Values of the Hills and Hollows’
What does it take for a dyed-in-the-wool progressive to transform himself into such a warmongering Dick Cheney look-alike that he even harkens back to the Vietnam war era, darkly implying that we were stabbed in the back by Eugene McCarthy and a bunch of crazy college...
Freedom Fighters for a Fading Empire
Will US Use Punjab Governor’s Death as Pretext for More Drone Attacks?
On Tuesday morning, the reports of Salman Taseer's assassination topped headlines around the world. Taseer, the governor of Punjab, Pakistan's largest province, had been killed by one of his own security guards in a market in Islamabad. The assassination comes amidst...
Sudan Referendum May Be Only the Beginning
Amid growing certainty that the much-anticipated weeklong referendum on independence for south Sudan will indeed begin Sunday as scheduled, U.S. officials and independent experts are warning that the situation in both the north and the south is likely to remain very...
Enough Already: Close Gitmo
Remember way back when? President Barack Obama promised to close the Guantánamo prison, restore the United States' moral standing, and end the practice of torture. It was two years ago. In January 2009, as one of his first acts as president, Obama signed an executive...


