Updated at 3:53 p.m. EST, Mar. 26, 2009 At least 28 people were killed and 51 more were wounded in the latest attacks. A significant bombing took place in northern Baghdad. Also, a U.S. soldier died of non-combat injuries. Meanwhile, the U.S. military found themselves...
In November 1963, the US-sponsored president of southern Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem, was murdered by members of that country's military. The murder was (at the least) tacitly supported by Washington and was partially due to Diem's attempts to operate independently of...
Ten years ago today, on March 24, 1999, the Atlantic Empire chose to reveal itself to the world by demonstrating the unchecked power of a fully operational military alliance. After fifty years of keeping "the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans...
The Transportation Security Agency (TSA) recently announced that it was re-instituting random screening of passengers at gates. Of course, the reality is that TSA has been conducting additional screening at gates since July 2008 per the TSA's own Web site: "If...
Is your representative speaking out against escalation of the Afghanistan war? Last week, some members of Congress sent President Obama a letter that urged him to "reconsider" his order deploying 17,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan. Everyone in the House of...
Tuesday marked the tenth anniversary of the bombing of the nation formerly known as Yugoslavia – an act of aggression that prefigured America's post-9/11 rampage and set the stage for our endless "war on terrorism" in many more ways than are at first...
RAMALLAH - By late Saturday afternoon hundreds of heavily armed Israeli security forces on horseback and on foot had arrested over 20 Palestinians, assaulted a handful of people, and prevented numerous festivities from taking place. Police in riot gear on horseback...
Updated at 5:31 p.m. EST, Mar. 25, 2009 At least eight Iraqis were killed and 21 more were wounded in the latest attacks, but no Coalition deaths were reported. U.S. authorities admitted that there has been an uptick in violence as they hand over security operation to...
"If you're not cheating, you're not trying." - Anonymous U.S. military officer As a naval aviator pal of mine once remarked, cadets in our military academies spend the summer before their freshman year learning an arcane honor code and spend the next four...
Sir Walter Scott wrote, "Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive." If Scott were still alive, he might well have been describing the state of U.S. diplomacy at the dawn of the Obama era. Admittedly, Obama's focus on the economy...
