Updated at 8:55 p.m. EDT, July 20, 2008At least 24 Iraqis were killed and 34 more were wounded during numerous but small attacks. No Coalition deaths were reported, but U.S. troops killed two relatives of a provincial governor in northern Iraq. Also, two foreign...
Updated at 11:06 p.m. July 19, 2008At least 13 Iraqis were killed and five more were wounded in the latest attacks. No Coalition deaths were reported, but a British hostage may have killed himself.A militant group holding five British hostages has released a video in...
Attempting to disarm Iran's nuclear enrichment program diplomatically has proven futile. Even with the noose tightening around its neck through sanctions, and joint American-Israeli military exercises combined with covert CIA operations being conducted close to its...
According to Bush-Cheney sycophantic "reporter" Glenn Kessler, Bush's alleged support for the diplomatic "solution" proposed by Secretary of State Condi Rice "suggests he increasingly is determined to put aside a possible military strike"...
Teddy Roosevelt was the first president to leave the continental U.S. It's too bad he wasn't also the last. Politicians and celebrities with an urge to see poverty only need to visit the Mississippi Delta or some of the neighborhoods in American cities. If they yearn...
After having begun a series of investigative stories criticizing the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in May 2008, CNN reporter Drew Griffin reports being placed with more than a million other names on TSA's swollen terrorism watch list. Although TSA...
The US decision to send the State Department's third-ranking official to sit in on the meeting between European Union foreign affairs chief Javier Solana and Iran's nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili Saturday has been hailed as a major diplomatic breakthrough, but it is...
The Bush Regime's "terrorist" protection schemes have reached the height of total incompetence and utter absurdity. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, a private organization that defends the US Constitution that inattentive Americans neglect,...
Despite some initial hesitation, the Religious Right has decided that John McCain is God's candidate. I'll confess that I can't find the relevant Bible verse, but who am I to dispute the usual religious worthies? Obviously John McCain is the candidate of God –...
It's summer and gassing up your car is like emptying your wallet directly into that fuel pump. So you think you have it bad? You think you're feeling the pain? Well, stop your whining! Other oil "addicts" have it so much worse! Have you no pity? Take an obvious...
