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....
Updated at 11:46 p.m. EDT, Oct. 12, 2008Both Baghdad and Mosul again suffered a series of bombings. At least 25 Iraqi were killed and 46 more were wounded across the country. No Coalition deaths were reported. Also, local officials in Mosul are trying to staunch the...
Four-score years ago our forefathers overwhelmingly elected Herbert Hoover to serve as President of the United States. He was inaugurated March 4, 1929, just in time to take the rap for not preventing the Wall Street crash of October 29, 1929, which according to the...
According to the Britain's highest military commander in Afghanistan, Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, "We're not going to win this war." This is in stark contrast to the political rhetoric of our two presidential candidates, who are both calling for more...
Updated at 10:15 p.m. EDT, Oct. 11, 2005At least 14 Iraqis were killed and 15 more were wounded in the latest round of violence. A U.S. soldier was killed during a roadside bombing in Missan province. Also, the U.S. military reported a precipitous drop in journalists...
The American empire is kaput. Neither John McCain nor Barack Obama realizes that fact yet, but the myth of the omnipotent unipower, the essential nation, the country which declares that what it says goes, has been exposed to all. The Iraq debacle sullied Washington's...
Part of the psychology of the Greenspan Bubble – a policy of bank credit expansion that distorted market signals and led to the over-valuation of certain assets, such as real estate – has been the vaunted overestimation of America's staying power as a global...
In a 1998 interview with Le Nouvel Observateur, Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, spoke proudly of how, in July 1979, he had "signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul"...
In the last three weeks, two events have occurred that have dealt what should have been a knockout blow to the Military Commissions at Guantánamo, the system of trials for "terror suspects" – outside of the US court system and the US military's own judicial...
The beginning of political talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban revealed by press accounts this week is likely to deepen the rift that has just erupted in public between the United States and its British ally over the US commitment to an escalation of...
