UN Affirms Israeli-Hamas War Crimes Report
A 575-page blistering report by Justice Richard Goldstone detailing war crimes in Gaza last December is refusing to die despite an aggressive Israeli smear campaign to kill it. The report, which was favorably voted by the 47-member Human Rights Council in Geneva last...
Such a Waste of Fine Infantry
Mideast Peace Plan May Yet Survive New Twists
JERUSALEM -- U.S. President Obama's Middle East engagement policy reverses the unsuccessful policy of his predecessor, but the U.S. is again committing faux pas aplenty. Yet, for all the uncomplimentary ways in which the President's strategy is now viewed by many in...
2014 or Bust: The Pentagon’s Afghan Building Boom
The Disenfranchised Antiwar Voter
Why is it that the War Party invariably wins? Although the majority of Americans are rebelling against the idea that the US must endlessly police the world, and are souring on the crusade to "liberate" Afghanistan, how is it that the only voices heard on the...
Thursday: 2 US Soldiers, 3 Iraqis Killed; 29 Iraqis Wounded
Updated at 9:40 EST, Nov. 5, 2009
At least three Iraqis were killed and 29 more were wounded in the latest attacks. Two U.S. soldiers were killed in separate events as well, of which only one was combat related. In Baghdad, a mortar attack wounded seven more American servicemembers. Meanwhile, the head of Iraq’s election commission again warned of delaying the passage of an elections law that will guide January’s national elections, but parliament again failed to pass one.
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So Much for Europe
No Sunset for Sweeping PATRIOT Act Powers?
The USA PATRIOT Act, rushed into law by a panicky U.S. Congress in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of Sep. 11, 2001, gave the government broad surveillance powers to spy on innocent citizens. But it also stipulated that three of its more controversial...
