I never believed in the Internet's potential to displace the world of print, nor did I take it seriously at all. It was sometime in the early 1990s – 1995, perhaps – when Eric Garris, our webmaster, then a computer publishing specialist at a weekly magazine,...
CAIRO - Despite declarations of victory by Israel, the military assault on the Gaza Strip failed to achieve its stated aims, many analysts say. The assault, and even its exceptional brutality, may only have vindicated the notion of resistance among the Arab public....
Even as U.S. President Barack Obama prepares to deploy more military forces to Afghanistan – what he has called "the central front" in former President George W. Bush's "global war on terror" – a consensus on overall U.S. strategy there...
Updated at 7:25 p.m. EST, Feb. 4, 2009At least nine Iraqis were killed or found dead and another 31 were wounded in today's incidents, which included the discovery of a mass grave. No Coalition deaths were reported. Meanwhile, reports of election fraud continue to vex...
Recently, reviewing lobbying disclosure reports, the Washington Times discovered "that 18 of the top 20 recipients of federal bailout money spent a combined $12.2 million lobbying the White House, the Treasury Department, Congress, and federal agencies during the last...
CENTCOM commander Gen. David Petraeus, supported by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, tried to convince President Barack Obama that he had to back down from his campaign pledge to withdraw all U.S. combat troops from Iraq within 16 months at an Oval Office meeting Jan....
Updated at 8:58 p.m. EST, Feb. 3, 2009At least four Iraqis were killed and another 15 were wounded in today's attacks. No Coalition deaths were reported. Back in the U.S., Christopher Hill was named to be the next American ambassador to Iraq, replacing Ryan Crocker....
Updated at 8:50 p.m. EST, Feb. 2, 2009As five Iraqis were killed and 14 more were wounded in today's attacks, U.S. President Obama said that he would soon "roll out in a very formal fashion what [the U.S.'s] intentions are in Iraq as well as Afghanistan." He also...
A pack of ravenous dogs, a nightmare, a visit from a war-haunted friend: this was how film director Ari Folman's period as an Israeli "grunt" in the 1982 invasion of Lebanon first returned to him. But when he began to search for his own memories of that war, what he...
Figuring out the direction President Barack Obama's foreign policy will take has become a full-time job for pundits and foreign diplomats in Washington. And a key question on everyone's mind is how exactly Obama will seek to exert influence as the American Empire...
