FALLUJAH - Babies born in Fallujah are showing illnesses and deformities on a scale never seen before, doctors and residents say. The new cases, and the number of deaths among children, have risen after "special weaponry" was used in the two massive bombing...
Two key pledges made by the George W. Bush administration on military bases in its negotiations with the government of Iraq have now been revealed as carefully-worded ruses aimed at concealing US negotiating aims from both US citizens and Iraqis who would object to...
Updated at 10:25 p.m. EDT, June 13, 2008At least 20 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 14 more were wounded in the latest violence. It is the prayer day, so reports are lighter than usual. Two American deaths were reported. The DOD reported that a U.S. soldier died...
President George W. Bush used to complain that being president was "hard work," but he has gotten over that. Now he says it "has been a fabulous experience." Why fabulous? Well, a good part of it has to do with his past. When Bush screwed up royally – whether in...
The following is based on a talk delivered on Saturday, June 7, 2008, at the Future of Freedom Foundation's conference, Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties, in Reston, Virgina. We are used to hearing discussion of political issues boiled down to...
The killings Tuesday night by US warplanes of 11 Pakistani paramilitary soldiers at or near a checkpoint along the Afghan border is virtually certain to add to growing tensions between Washington and Islamabad at a critical moment in relations between both countries....
Updated at 11:25 p.m. EDT, June 12, 2008Baghdad was again rocked by a series of bombings today, while two U.S. servicemembers were killed. Across Iraq, at least 18Iraqis were killed and 60 more were wounded. Two Egyptian gunmen were also killed. An American soldier...
UNITED NATIONS - This week, Iran's new speaker of parliament, Ali Larijani, proposed forming two joint committees of the legislative and judiciary branches in an effort to reconcile new legislation with the Islamic penal code. The step is viewed as part of Larinaji's...
Scott McClellan, the most significant defector from behind the Iron Curtain of the War Party's domain, doesn't think we were lied into war. According to him, it was all due to the "partisan" attitudes that dominate Washington discourse on every issue. As he puts it,...
Pentagon officials firmly opposed a proposal by Vice President Dick Cheney last summer for air strikes against Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) bases by insisting that the administration would have to make clear decisions about how far the United States would...
