The USS Cole isn't engaged in a sightseeing tour of the Eastern Mediterranean: its sudden deployment just "over the horizon" near Lebanon – in tandem with two other warships – is a clear sign that the Americans are preparing for something big. That's what...
America is an amazing place – one of the wealthiest and freest nations on earth. Yet because Europe has so many more cultures and languages in one contained area, Americans, compared to their European brethren, seem like country bumpkins in their knowledge and...
Updated at 12:15 a.m. EST, March 4, 2008Several bombings and other violence left 102 Iraqis killed and 120 wounded. The figures include new casualties from a previous reported bombing in Samarra. Among today's dead and injured are a woman and children, who were...
Updated at 11:53 p.m. EST, March 2, 2008The U.S. military reported killing a Saudi national believed to be a leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. Meanwhile, Sunnis held demonstrations against the President Ahmadinejad's visit as Shi'ites welcomed the Iranian leader. In the...
Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, as they demonstrated in this week's televised presidential debate, are firmly against the war in Iraq — Barack earlier but Hillary even more firmly than before. At least that's what they say. It's worth remembering that at a...
Another high-ranking George W. Bush administration official has resigned. The Department of Veterans Affairs Undersecretary for Benefits Daniel Cooper quit Thursday amid mounting criticism over a backlog of disability claims for injured veterans that runs six months...
Sisyphus was a character in Greek mythology, condemned to roll a huge rock to the top of a steep hill, with said accursed rock rolling back down again the moment Sisyphus thought he had accomplished his task. In the modern version of this Greek tragedy, G. Aghazadeh,...
Updated at 5:50 p.m. EST, March 1, 2008At least 15 Iraqis were killed and 21 others were wounded in the latest round of violence; a British airman was also killed during a rocket attack in Basra. Meanwhile, in Diyala province, Awakening Council members returned to...
In the strange world of Israeli academia, an Arab college lecturer is being dismissed from his job because he refused to declare his "respect for the uniform of the Israeli army." The bizarre demand was made of Nizar Hassan, director of several award-winning...
In recent months the undeclared war in Iraq seems not to have been on the minds of most Americans. News of the violence and deprivation which ordinary Iraqis are forced to deal with on a daily basis rarely makes it to the front pages. Instead, we read in the...
