Updated at 12:20 a.m. EDT, Oct. 23, 2007The Kurdistan Worker's Party has asked a skeptical Turkey for a cease fire. Overall, 111 Iraqis were killed and 75 were wounded during attacks that included a raid by Iraqi National Accord members. In Baghdad, five dumped bodies...
Question: Who was the first economist to win a Nobel Prize? Many economists, hearing this question, would know that it's a trick question, but they would identify the small trick and miss the big one. The small trick is that there was no first economist to win the...
Is Congress afraid of Gen. David Petraeus? If not, why did its members run around like panicked turkeys in a rain storm to defend a four-star general from a few liberal Democrats at MoveOn.org? Before the "Betray Us" flap established MoveOn's bona fides, the outfit...
I am introducing a comprehensive piece of legislation to restore the American Constitution and to restore the liberties that have been sadly eroded over the past several years. This legislation seeks to restore the checks and balances enshrined in the Constitution by...
Updated at 11:15 p.m. EDT, Oct. 21, 2007At least 78 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 83 more were wounded in the latest violence. Most of the casualties occurred during a U.S. raid in Sadr City. During incidents at the Turkish border, another 49 people were killed...
The Mother of All Pretexts Uri Avnery's "The Mother of All Pretexts" is carefully and subtly wrought, by a mind alive with the history of the region and its deeper nuances. Two points might be added. The idea of a "clash of civilizations" is not a new idea, but rooted...
They can't help themselves. They want to confess. How else to explain the torture memorandums that continue to flow out of the inner sancta of this administration, the most recent of which were evidently leaked to the New York Times. Those two, from the Alberto...
Five years ago, in a new National Security Statement, President Bush announced that; "The United States has long maintained the option of preemptive actions to counter a sufficient threat to our national security. "The greater the threat, the greater is the risk of...
I am at a conference on war, liberty and the free press sponsored by the Liberty Fund, and there are some discussions we have held that I believe are worth passing on. One of the most significant aspects of the relationship between the press and the military in time...
BAGHDAD - Resistance to occupation seems to have risen after the assassination last month of Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, head of the al-Bu Risha tribe. Abu Risha had begun to cooperate actively with US forces. Abu Risha was killed Sep. 13 when a bomb exploded outside his...
