Updated at 12:15 a.m. EST, Nov. 28, 2007At least 46 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 35 more were wounded during attacks that included multiple shootings involving U.S. troops and civilians. Also, an Iraqi journalist is accusing the Interior Ministry of killing...
Acts matter. Here's how Dahr Jamail, a young mountain guide and volunteer rescue ranger in Alaska (who did freelance writing in the "off-season") describes his rash decision, back in 2003, to cover George W. Bush's Iraq War in person: "I decided that the one thing I...
They say he's the only one who can beat the Democrats in '08, the only one who's tough enough to take on Hillary and keep the White House for the GOP, but the truth is quite the opposite. With at least two major scandals brewing under the surface, in addition to his...
When Paul Tibbets, pilot of the plane that dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima 62 years ago, died earlier this month, conservative commentators responded true to form. They declared Tibbets to be a hero. They stridently defended the use of the...
Updated at 5:40 p.m. EST, Nov. 26, 2007At least 30 Iraqis were killed and four more were wounded during a light day violence. The family of an Iraqi journalist is among the dead. No Coalition deaths were reported. Also, a Turkish helicopter violated Iraqi airspace on...
Updated at 12:50 p.m. EST, Nov. 25, 2007A surge in bombings continues in Baghdad and Mosul. Overall, 37 Iraqis were killed and 64 more were injured in the latest attacks. Also, a U.S. soldier succumbed, on Thanksgiving Day, to wounds received in a roadside bombing...
On May 28, 1998, in response to unscheduled underground tests, weeks earlier, of several nukes by the Indians, the Pakistanis somehow managed to prepare for and test, underground, up to six "Islamic" nukes, most of them based on almost-pure Uranium-235, but...
Updated at 6:25 p.m. EST, Nov. 24, 2007At least 32 Iraqis were killed and 40 more were wounded in the latest attacks. The fallout from yesterday's bombings in Baghdad and Mosul conitinues as well. No Coalition casualties were reported. The numbers from...
Capitol Hill was recently roiled by an issue of no obvious concern to America: the World War I genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire against its Armenian population. But the tendency of Washington policymakers to concoct foreign policy to satisfy influential...
The Annapolis conference is a joke. Though not in the least funny. Like quite a lot of political initiatives, this one too, according to all the indications, started more or less by accident. George Bush was due to make a speech. He was looking for a theme that would...
