Updated at 8:56 p.m. EST, Jan. 13, 2009Reports of violence dropped off as U.S. Vice President-elect Biden continued his trip to Iraq. At least two Iraqis were killed and another 18 were wounded in light violence. Meanwhile, a newly released report sheds light on the...
Last month the Congressional Commission on Strategic Posture issued an interim report, on the basis of which one of its co-chairmen, former Secretary of Defense William Perry, publicly predicted this week that President-elect Obama will soon face a "serious...
Seven years ago, on Jan. 11, 2002, when photos of the first orange-clad detainees to arrive at a hastily erected prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba were made available to the world's press, then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld reacted to the widespread uproar...
Author's note: Kathy Kelly, a co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, is writing from Arish, a town near the Rafah border between Egypt and Gaza. Bill Quigley, a human rights lawyer and law professor at Loyola New Orleans, and Audrey Stewart are also in...
The gang over at The New Republic has been scrambling to develop and publicize a case that the choice of former Clinton White House chief of staff (and before that OMB director and eight-term congressman from northern California) Leon Panetta to head the CIA was...
Why is Israel pounding Gaza? Well, we know the official explanation, which goes something like this: if you Americans were being targeted by crude, albeit potentially lethal, rockets from, say, Mexico, on a daily basis, how would you respond? Israel, we are told, had...
Updated at 8:05 p.m. EST, Jan. 12, 2008U.S. Vice President-elect Joe Biden took a secret trip to Baghdad as a series of bombs killed or injured dozens of people in the capital. At least 10 Iraqis were killed and 39 more were wounded in Baghdad. An unknown number of...
Updated at 8:59 p.m. EST, Jan. 11, 2009At least nine Iraqis were killed and 11 more were wounded in the latest attacks. Also, a U.S. soldier was killed during a roadside bombing late yesterday in Baghdad. There seems to be some difficulty in getting news reports out...
RAMALLAH – United Nations report that Israel ordered civilians into a building and then shelled it marks yet more evidence of widespread targeting of civilians in the Gaza assault. The UN report calls for a war crimes investigation into Israel's shelling of a...
Although the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush and Israeli leaders have depicted the ongoing crisis in Gaza as part of a larger struggle against Iran and its "proxies," Tehran's involvement with the Palestinians is rather limited. Despite their...
