VANCOUVER - Buoyed by the recommendations of a government-appointed blue-ribbon panel, Canada's parliament last week approved a motion to extend its combat mission in Afghanistan until the end of 2011. The outcome of the motion was effectively predetermined, as the...
Updated at 8:50 p.m. EDT, Mar. 20, 2008 At least 25 Iraqis were killed and another 28 were wounded in the latest round of violence. No Coalition casualties were reported, but Turkey resumed air attacks on Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) hideouts in northern Iraq. U.S....
There is a lot of talk in Washington these days about "containment." Foreign policy pundits insist that the U.S. must contain Iran, whose rise as a political-military power poses a threat to Western strategic and economic interests in the Persian Gulf...
SILVER SPRING, Maryland – "I would like to share with you how one goes about becoming a concentration camp guard without having made many decisions," 24-year-old former Guantanamo prison guard Christopher Arent told a crowd of hundreds at last weekend's...
On Sunday, I spoke at an event organized by a coalition of peace groups marking the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Being the reclusive writer type, I don't really get much of a kick out of speaking in front of an audience. However, in this case, aside from...
Devastation on the ground and widely held Iraqi opinion contradicts claims by U.S. officials that the situation in Iraq has improved toward the fifth anniversary of the invasion March 20. U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney during a surprise visit to Iraq on Monday...
One of the nation's most respected counterterrorism experts is predicting that Congress will take action to rein in the "unchecked power" of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to spy on U.S. citizens without court approval – and then forbid them from...
Updated at 11:55 p.m. EDT, Mar. 19, 2008As President Bush marked the five anniversary of the invasion of Iraq with a speech, at least 32 Iraqis were killed and another 45 were wounded in the latest violence. Two American soldiers were also killed. An American soldier...
Just imagine: You run a flagship national newspaper, the New York Times. It's the fifth anniversary of President Bush's catastrophic invasion of Iraq. Your own record of reportage in the period leading up to the invasion was not exactly sterling. So, for a change of...
Updated at 11:55 p.m. EDT, Mar. 18, 2008At least 38 Iraqis were killed and another 77 were wounded during continued bombings throughout the country. Meanwhile, the International Organization for Migration reported finding that about 2.7 million Iraqis were displaced...
