In a major rebuff to human rights and government accountability activists, the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday declined to take up the case of a German citizen who was allegedly abducted, detained and tortured by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as part of the CIA's...
Updated at 11:25 p.m. EDT, Oct. 10, 2007At least 131 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 88 others were wounded during the latest violence. Attacks on political or security targets occurred in Mosul and Tikrit, and Baghdad saw several attacks staged by gunmen. Also,...
As the neoconservatives have been wrong about almost everything in the past six years, it would seem logical to assume that their political demise is imminent. But nothing could be further from the truth: the neocons in government, though admittedly declining in...
The following is an excerpt from Foreign Agents: The American Israel Public Affairs Committee From the 1963 Fulbright Hearings to the 2005 Espionage Scandal. AIPAC was founded by Isaiah L. "Si" Kenen, springing from the American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs....
Despite the U.S. military command's frequent assertions that the primary threat to U.S. forces in Iraq comes from Iranian meddling, its real problem is that Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi army is determined to end the occupation and is simply too big and too...
Updated at 10:52 p.m. EDT, Oct. 9, 2007At least 76 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 131 more were wounded during a particularly active day in Iraq. Yet another deadly incident involving a private security company has surfaced in Baghdad. A significant number of...
Ron Paul is breaking through. His call to return to the vision of the Founders, and the principles embodied in the Constitution, is piercing the wall of silence that surrounds the conduct of our disgraceful foreign policy. Andrea Mitchell proclaims him the new Howard...
Updated at 12:25 a.m. EDT, Oct. 9, 2007Polish targets in Baghdad were once again attacked in Baghdad. No casualties were reported this time, but Baghdad was rocked numerous bombings. Overall, 54 Iraqis were killed and 88 were wounded in the latest round of violence....
Updated at 11:55 p.m. EDT, Oct. 7, 2007Although Iraq was generally quiet today, several bombings rocked Baghdad. Overall, 23 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 20 were wounded so far. U.S. forces were involved in yet another controversial incident in which two first...
Updated at 12:03 p.m. EDT, Oct. 6, 2007At least 33 Iraqis were killed or found dead and another 28 were wounded in the latest round of attacks, which included bombings in Kirkuk and Khalis. Also, two GIs were killed and three were wounded in separate events. Three...
