BAGHDAD - Residents are fleeing Samarra city in the face of fierce fighting between US forces and resistance groups. New defiance is rising against US forces following military "crimes," fleeing residents say. "On Sunday the 26th of August, there was fierce...
Iran's unexpected agreement with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) head Mohamed ElBaradei to resolve old issues surrounding its nuclear program in less than two months, and the fact that it has installed only two-thirds of the centrifuges previously announced,...
Victor Davis Hanson, previously a classics professor at Fresno State specializing in the military history of ancient Greece and currently embedded at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, is a fervent apologist for the Bush administration's interventionist foreign...
In reference to coercive British rule, Tom Paine once told Americans that there is something absurd about the idea that the entire continent of North America should be forever ruled by the little island of Great Britain. Paine, as always in his work, was trying to...
President Jimmy Carter was demonized for pointing out in his book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, that there are actually two sides to the Israeli-Palestinian issue. Distinguished American scholars, such as John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt have suffered the same...
Future historians studying the decline and fall of the American Empire will probably focus on George W. Bush's disastrous Iraqi adventure – the modern-day equivalent of Alcibiades' Sicilian expedition – to explain the pathology of a global hyper-power....
FALLUJAH - A brave new attempt is under way to project that all is well now with Fallujah. Residents know better – or worse. Former Iraqi minister of state for foreign affairs Rafi al-Issawi visited Fallujah, 60 km west of Baghdad, Aug. 22. Issawi, who resigned...
Repatriated Guantánamo Bay detainment camp prisoners have once again been mistreated at the hands of their home countries despite "diplomatic assurances" of humane treatment made to the US government, according to a Human Rights Watch report released Wednesday. The...
Updated at 12:30 a.m. EDT, Sept. 7, 2007At least 49 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 45 more were wounded in the latest violence. One American servicemember was killed in a non-combat incident yesterday. Meanwhile, security experts are questioning the methodology...
American military aid to Israel has been increased yet again, which leads us to ask the inevitable question: What are we getting for our money? Well, we're getting this, as well as this, and this – not to mention this. The regularly quoted figure is $3.5 billion...
