Updated at 5:15 p.m. EDT, Sept. 15, 2008The Ramadan surge in bombings continued today with significant bombings in Balad Ruz and Baghdad, but few other attacks made it into the news reports. At least 38 Iraqis were killed and 68 more were wounded overall. Only one...
What $700 Billion? Must agree with Mr. Peña: the numbers do not add up. But what does add up is the money given away freely to Israel: much more than $700 billion. Presumably, giving money to "unfriendlies" in the form of legitimate purchases implies the USA is...
I have to laugh at the brouhaha Sarah Palin's ascension to national prominence has stirred, especially the consternation in the Obama camp and the media (or do I repeat myself?). One can only imagine the spittle-flecked computer monitors of the anti-Palinistas –...
Updated at 4:58 p.m. EDT, Sept. 14, 2008At least 17 Iraqis were killed and 24 more were wounded in the latest attacks. One U.S. soldier died in a non-combat incident as well. Also, Iraq wants the U.S. and Iran to resume talks on Iraq security that began last year....
Israel's enduring use of Palestinian collaborators to entrench the occupation and destroy Palestinian resistance was once the great unmentionable of the Middle East conflict. When the subject was dealt with by the international and local media, it was solely in the...
"Long before President McCain was elected," the three-star general said, "he hinted at attacking Iran in songs and jokes. After the assault, he made his famous address. But we still need citizens to more fully appreciate the victorious details of Operation Bodacious...
In the twilight of his eight-year term, George W. Bush is the loneliest guy in town these days. Remember him? With the economy in the tank, the Iraq War dragging on with casualties at 2004 levels (which we were all horrified about back then), Bush's popularity is...
John McCain, his handpicked successor Sarah Palin and their neo-crazy coconspirators are hell-bent upon incorporating Georgia and Ukraine, both former Soviet republics, into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Since they all realize that could well require us to...
Updated at 11:46 p.m. EDT, Sept. 13, 2008At least 28 Iraqis were killed and 49 more were wounded in the latest violence, which included an attack on a TV crew in Mosul and a series of bombings in Baghdad. No Coalition deaths were reported.In Baghdad, four people were...
In a little noted passage in her bestselling book, The Dark Side, Jane Mayer offers us a vision, just post-9/11, of the value of one. In October 2001, shaken by a nerve-gas false alarm at the White House, Vice President Dick Cheney, reports Mayer, went underground. He...
