Bibi’s Holocaust – or Ours?
Friday: 3 GIs, 10 Iraqis Killed; 13 Iraqis Wounded
Updated at 5:47 p.m. EDT, May 1, 2009
Three U.S. servicemembers lost their lives in an anti-tank grenade attack in Anbar province. At least 10 Iraqis were also killed, while another 13 were injured in attacks across Iraq. Meanwhile, U.S. personnel were involved in another controversial raid.
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Sexual assault of women serving in the U.S. military, while brought to light in recent reports, has a long tradition in that institution. Women in America were first allowed into the military during the Revolutionary War in 1775, and their travails are as old....
The Lobby Wants War
Obama and DC Dance the Torture Minuet
Hamas Gaining International Legitimacy
JERUSALEM -- Delegations from the rival Fatah and Hamas organizations have again failed in Cairo to bridge their differences meant to usher in a Palestinian unity government, but this has in no way slowed inroads which the Islamist movement has been making to increase...
Kiss the Era of Human Rights Goodbye
Recently, in a Washington Post op-ed, Mark Danner wrote: "However much we would like the [torture] scandal to be confined to the story of what was done in those isolated rooms on the other side of the world where interrogators plied their arts, and in the...
Major Foreign Tests Likely Over Obama’s Next 100 Days
While Barack Obama has clearly improved Washington's image abroad during his first 100 days in office, the next 100 will almost certainly prove much more challenging for the new president's foreign policy. Putting aside the possibility that the worst economic crisis...
