Barring a catastrophe – a terrorist attack on American soil, a calamitous gaffe, or the documented revelation that he really is a Muslim after all – it looks like Barack Obama is going to be the 44th president of these United States. Not only that, but I'd...
I wish I had a dollar – oops, better make that a euro – for every recent obituary marking The Death or The Fall or The Collapse or just the End of the American Empire or the American Era. Hey, I would have been able to bail out almost all the world's...
With only three months left in office, U.S. President George W. Bush appears increasingly determined to calm the international waters he so vigorously churned up, especially during his first term. In just the last several days, he has effectively rehabilitated a...
Updated at 4:55 p.m. EDT, Oct. 16, 2008A mass grave containing 22 bodies was discovered near Karbala. At least 19 Iraqis were killed and another 60 were wounded in other incidents as well, but no Coalition deaths were reported. The White House dismissed earlier...
Among my somewhat over-the-hill crowd – I'm 64 – there's one thing friends have said to me repeatedly since the stock market started to tumble, the global economic system began to melt down, and Iceland went from bank haven to bankrupt. They say, "I'm just...
"Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers." So Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon advised Herbert Hoover in the Great Crash of '29. Hoover did. And the nation liquidated him – and the Republicans. In the Crash of 2008, 40 percent of stock value has...
At least six Iraqis were killed and 12 more were wounded during light violence across the country. An American soldier was wounded in a small arms attack in Baghdad as well. Also, eight mortar rounds struck a U.S. base in Balad; no casualties were as yet reported. A...
"Watch Ukraine!" John McCain said it twice, once during the first presidential debate: "And watch Ukraine. This whole thing has got a lot to do with Ukraine, Crimea, the base of the Russian fleet in Sevastopol. And the breakdown of the political process...
In what appears to be another stunning legal rebuke to President George W. Bush's policies in the "global war on terrorism," a federal judge has blocked the government from blacklisting a Muslim-oriented charity to give the group a chance to defend itself after its...
Update at 6:42 p.m. EDT, Oct. 13, 2008At least two Iraqis were killed and 12 more were wounded in an unusually quiet Monday. A U.S. soldier died in of non-combat causes. Meanwhile, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has told British troops it is time to go home....
