Hope Amidst Grim Prospects for Mideast Peace
RAMALLAH - Proximity peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians, due to begin shortly after months of delay due to Israel's continued settlement building on occupied Palestinian land, appear to have little chance of making a breakthrough. However, there appear to...
Wednesday: 9 Iraqis Killed, 8 Wounded
Updated at 8:30 p.m. EDT, May 5, 2010
At least nine Iraqis were killed and eight more were wounded in light violence, as details of an agreement that could hasten the formation of the new government were leaked to the press.
read moreJerusalem Divided Between Hats and Hearts
JERUSALEM - There's a Jerusalem saying that the city wears too many hats – Jewish hats, Muslim hats, Christian hats – so it's difficult to get at its brain. As Israelis and Palestinians wrestle for the right to wear the prime Jerusalem hat, U.S. President Barack Obama...
Iran’s Ever Imminent Nukes: A History of Hysteria
For nearly three decades we have been hearing or reading dire predictions by the officials of the United States, Israel, and their allies that Iran is on the verge of developing nuclear weapons. Such “warnings” have been common, but none has come true. Now that the...
35 Years Since the Fall of Saigon
The United States' wars have always been very expensive and capital-intensive, fought with the most modern weapons available and assuming a modern, concentrated enemy such as the Soviet Union. The ever growing Pentagon budget is virtually the only issue both...
Faisal Shahzad: An Ordinary Man
The day after President Obama made his Predator joke at the White House Correspondents dinner, Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani-American, was in the middle of Times Square trying to blow the place up. I'm not saying there was any connection, although you never know: yet...
Iraq: Controlled Devolution or Uncontrolled Disintegration
Recently, Massoud Barzani, president of the northern Kurdish region in Iraq, bluntly declared that the American visions of a strongly unified Iraq were “bird dreams and wishes.” Barzani then proceeded to heighten pressure for greater decentralization of the country...
Radio, TV Marti Under Fire
Despite spending more than half a billion dollars over the last quarter century, U.S. government broadcasts to Cuba have gained only a tiny audience and have had virtually no effect on the island's politics, according to a new report by the Senate Foreign Relations...
Hullabaloo in Times Square
I often walk through Times Square where the Incompetent Bomber parked his 1993 Nissan Pathfinder last Saturday with the alarm clocks wired to the M88 firecrackers in the canister between the five-gallon gasoline containers and the three propane tanks, the bags of...
