As Congress begins to consider the Iraq War funding bill, defections by important Republican senators have caused a White House debate on whether to try to get ahead of the onrushing train to leave Iraq. In the Bush administration's surreal parallel universe, this...
In the face of a critical Senate debate on future U.S. strategy in Iraq, neoconservatives and other hawks are trying to rally increasingly skeptical – and worried – Republicans behind continued support for President George W. Bush's five-month-old...
Updated at 8:50 p.m. EDT, July 10, 2007At least 173 Iraqis were killed or found dead today and 124 were wounded in the latest round of violence. These numbers include an attack on a small northern village. An American servicemember and a Filipino were killed during...
Caught Red-Handed: Media Backtracks on Iran's 'Threat' I have been shocked to see some, including Rep. Dennis Kucinich, latch onto the myth that Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, never called for Israel to be "wiped off the map." Iran's own news agency reports...
Not since the resurrection of Jesus Christ has there been such a miracle: a dead body buried in a cave has come to life again. The "Jordanian Option" gave up its ghost almost 20 years ago. Even before that, it never was very healthy. But in 1988, some time...
While Americans were celebrating their independence from the British Empire with displays of fireworks and other patriotic observances, another anniversary was pointedly not being observed, or even much noted, in Israel: on that day in 1976, a daring raid by Israeli...
Updated at 11:02 p.m EDT, July 9, 2007In a significant development, tens of thousands of Turkish soldiers are believed to be at the Iraqi border waiting for permission to enter Iraq on a security mission. Violence elsewhere has been elevated since late Friday and...
Updated at 12:30 a.m. EDT, July 9, 2007The weekend death toll in Iraq climbed to 342, an alarming figure even for the war-ravaged country. One of the largest bombings--if not the largest bombing--since the U.S. invasion took place in a small village in northern Iraq...
Members of the Cheney Cabal – in and outside government – and their media sycophants are charging that then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage played the initial and key role in the exposure of CIA covert agent Valerie Plame and of her...
On the day that Scooter Libby's prison sentence was lifted by President Bush, Mordechai Vanunu was sentenced to prison, again, in Israel. In both cases, the underlying offense was the same: speaking to journalists. In each case, the nominal charges were otherwise. For...
