Friday's announcement that Gen. Peter Pace will not be nominated for a second term as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. armed forces marks the latest in a series of moves by Pentagon chief Robert Gates to transform the leadership of the Pentagon and...
Tuesday: 72 Iraqis Killed, 58 Wounded
Updated at 1:10 a.m. EDT, June 13, 2007At least 72 Iraqis were reported killed or found dead and another 58 Iraqis were wounded, not including dozens of newly reported casualties stemming from a weekend incident in Camp Bucca. Also, bombers destroyed a bridge on a...
Backtalk, June 11, 2007
What's up with Putin? What's up with Putin? The Russians feel U.S. encroachment into the former Soviet Union is starting to represent an existential threat to the Russian Federation. It's evident American elites are in the dark, and they ought to be aware the neocon...
A Catch-22 Nuclear World
Here's the strange thing: Since 2001, our media has been filled with terrifying nuclear headlines. The Iraqi bomb (you remember those "mushroom clouds" about to rise over American cities), the North Korean bomb, and the Iranian bomb have been almost obsessively in the...
Hunting the Russian Bear
At times it seems as though we've gone back in a time machine to the darkest, sub-zero days of the Cold War era, when Americans were frantically digging bomb shelters in their back yards, Godless Communism was on the march, and the jackboots of the KGB were just...
Monday: 4 GIs, 35 Iraqis Killed; 23 Iraqis Wounded
Updated at 12:55 a.m. EDT, June 12, 2007Britain’s next prime minister, George Brown, visited Baghdad on a day of light violence. Throughout the country, 35 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 23 were wounded during attacks. Coalition forces did not fare so...
Sunday: 2 GIs, 73 Iraqis Killed, 149 Wounded
Updated at 1:04 a.m. EDT, June 11, 2007During attacks mostly directed at Iraqi security forces, 73 Iraqis were killed and 149 more were wounded. Turkey shelled Kurdish locations inside Iraq again, but no casualties were reported. Two American servicemembers were also...
India: Impasse Over Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Rights
NEW DELHI - High official-level talks between the United States and India to clinch the nuclear cooperation deal initialed in July 2005 have failed to narrow mutual differences and produce an agreement. The negotiations, held last week between the US team led by...
Iraqi Lawmaker Confirms Kurd-Shia Clashes in Baghdad
A May 29 IPS report on clashes between Kurdish Peshmerga troops and militiamen of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in Baghdad has been confirmed by an Iraqi member of Parliament, representing the Sunni-led Iraqi Accordance Front (Al-Tawafuq). Speaking on condition of...
For U.S. Base, Bush Finds Czech Enthusiasm, Polish Reserve
U.S. President George W. Bush this week discussed a U.S. missile base in Eastern Europe with Polish and Czech officials, but the results were merely words, and the two European countries showed some naivety as international players. There were great expectations from...


