Updated at 5:14 p.m., Oct. 17, 2008At least 14 Iraqis were killed and 21 more were wounded during light violence on the prayer day. No Coalition deaths were reported. Also, Iran and Turkey bombed separate targets in Sulaimaniyah province. In Baghdad, as many as three...
Israel has been suffering its worst bout of inter-communal violence since the start of the second intifada, with a week of what has been widely presented as "rioting" by Jewish and Arab residents of the northern port city of Acre. The trigger for the...
"The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!" – Friedrich Nietzsche Nietzsche eventually went mad, some say due to the effects of syphilis, others blame the implications of his complex and darkly...
Almost eight months after the US – followed by most NATO members – recognized the occupied Serbian province of Kosovo as a dependent state, the Serbian government finally did something about it. On October 8, the UN General Assembly approved Serbia's request...
As the Washington Post reported yesterday, the US Justice Department has dropped the key allegation against British resident and Guantánamo prisoner Binyam Mohamed – that he was involved, with American citizen Jose Padilla, in a plot to detonate a...
While the Pentagon's budget has risen to heights not seen since World War II, US diplomatic and foreign aid assets have largely atrophied and must be quickly rebuilt by any new administration that takes office in January, according to a new report released here this...
Updated at 9:30 p.m. EDT, Oct. 16, 2008At least 12 Iraqis were killed and 24 others were wounded in light violence. Also, Two U.S. soldier deaths were reported as well. In political news, the Iraqi Parliament accused U.S. General Odierno of meddling in Iraqi affairs...
Have No Illusions Hi Justin, I myself am a left-wing antiwar activist, but I must say that I love reading your blogs, which I generally agree with wholeheartedly, and I have now gained a great appreciation for the conservative antiwar advocates like yourself. I...
Editor's note: The following is adapted from Understanding the U.S.-Iran Crisis: A Primer. With George W. Bush's administration in its last year in office, the danger of a U.S. military attack on Iran still looms as a dangerous possibility. Widespread official...
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...
