At least two Iraqis were killed and eight more were wounded in the latest violence; however, no reports came out of Mosul where attacks occur on a daily basis. One U.S. Marine was killed in a non-combat incident.
read moreVisa for Top Netanyahu Aide In Question
The first official test of wills between the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama and the new Likud-led government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could well be waged over the issuance, or restoration, of a simple entry visa. For the past two...
The Afghan Rubik’s Cube
Afghanistan is a gatherer of metaphors: "crossroads of Asia," "graveyard of empires," and the "Great Game," to name a few. It might be more accurate, however, to think of it as a Rubik's Cube, that frustrating puzzle of intersecting...
Britain’s Guantánamo
On Monday March 30, in a committee room in the House of Commons, Diane Abbott MP chaired a meeting entitled, "Britain's Guantánamo? The use of secret evidence and evidence based on torture in the UK courts," to discuss the stories of some of the men held as...
Obama’s Neoliberals: Selling His Afghan War One Report at a Time
A Closer Look at the US’ Drones
It's one thing to study online articles describing the MQ-9 Reapers and MQ-1 Predators. It's quite another to identify these drones as they take off from runways at Nevada's Creech Air Force base, where our "Ground the Drones" campaign is holding a ten-day...
All Unclear Over Israeli Policy
JERUSALEM -- How genuine is Israel's new leadership about peace when the Prime Minister says that he will go a long way towards striving for a settlement with the Palestinians, but purposefully omits to endorse an independent Palestinian state; and, when his foreign...
Obama’s Lieberman Problem
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government was sworn in Tuesday -- just one day later his foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, set off a firestorm by saying he judged Israel was no longer bound by agreements reached at the late-2007 peace conference...
