US Military Spending Far Outpaces Rest of the World
The United States continues to lead the world in defense spending, according to a new report released Thursday by the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, a U.S.-based non-partisan research organization. In fact, the U.S. outspends Russia, the next highest...
Friday, 1 Iraqi Killed, 7 Wounded
At least one Iraqi was killed and seven more were wounded in light, prayer day violence. Meanwhile, Paul Bremer, the diplomat who governed Iraq’s Coalition Provisional Authority after the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime said the Iraq War was poorly planned. Also, the U.S. handed over a base to their Iraqi counterparts near Baghdad.
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Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam By Gordon M. Goldstein Holt, 300 pp., $16.00 (paper) The debate over foreign policy that culminated in President Barack Obama's address to the nation on December 1, 2009, concerns a war that began with...
The American Century Is So Over
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Memo to Congressman David Obey
MEMORANDUM FOR: Congressman David Obey FROM: A Former Admirer SUBJECT: Ducking the Challenge "We can sit, frozen in our own indifference, as President Roosevelt once said…" That's what you said yesterday in connection with saving teachers' jobs....
Israeli Human Rights Activist: I Was Tortured
A leading human rights activist from Israel's Palestinian Arab minority was charged yesterday with the most serious security offences on Israel's statute book, including espionage. Prosecutors indicted Ameer Makhoul, the head of Ittijah, an umbrella organization for...
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Thursday: 4 Iraqis Killed, 28 Wounded
Updated at 8:50 p.m. EDT, May 27, 2010
At least four Iraqis were killed and 28 more were wounded in the latest attacks. Also, Turkey reported killing another 19 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels in last week’s air assault. Independently confirmed accounts are impossible from this region of Iraq; however, the PKK has admitted so some deaths. Also, one Turkish soldier was killed and four more were wounded in clashes on the Turkish side of the border.
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