There was a time – many years ago – when Time magazine was considered to be an American and international "institution." That explained why the world's movers and shakers paid a lot of attention to the individual that the founder Henry Luce and his...
There's no getting around the fact that the assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, who recently returned to an active role in Pakistani politics, is a setback for any hope of democratic reform, as most observers have noted. Even more...
As you may have noticed, things have not been going well, recently, for the American Hegemony. That would be the global hegemony the wonderful folks who call themselves "neo-conservatives" – having been denied military victory in the Cold War by the internal...
Updated at 11:55 p.m. EST, Dec. 29, 2007At least 37 Iraqis were killed and 20 more were wounded in the latest violence. Also, Sunni groups allege that Baghdad police rounded-up 250 non-militants in sectarian-driven raid. Meanwhile, a police spokesman in Mosul was...
BAQUBA - The Iraqi government announcement that monthly food rations will be cut by half has left many Iraqis asking how they can survive. The government also wants to reduce the number of people depending on the rationing system by five million by June 2008. Iraq's...
What characterizes the political season so far is what we might call frontrunner collapse. The candidates we were all told were the nearly inevitable winners – Hillary Clinton and Rudolph Giuliani – are now hanging on for dear life. Obama is currently...
PRAGUE - Poland has woken up to the possibility that its troops in Afghanistan were involved in a war crime against defenseless civilians. The reported events have shocked a public which remains sensitive to the performance of its country's military missions abroad....
2007 will likely go down in US history as the year in which the balance of power in the long-running struggle between hawks and realists in the administration of President George W. Bush shifted decisively in favor of the latter. That shift, which could still be...
Updated at 12:25 a.m. EST, Dec. 29, 2007Although the weekly prayer day is usually quiet, this Friday was marked by a significant bombing in a Baghdad marketplace. A smaller bomb disturbed the peace in Kirkuk as well. Overall, 31 Iraqis were killed and 69 more were...
For a time former Arkansas Gov. Michael Huckabee appeared to be among the craziest of the GOP candidates, gung-ho for the Iraq war, disdainful of Congress' role in declaring war, and enthusiastic about torturing U.S. captives. But when he deviated slightly from neocon...
