According to former Secretary of Defense (1994-97) William Perry – co-author of the op-ed "After the Bomb" for the New York Times – the probability of a nuclear weapon "going off" in an American city is greater today, than it was five years ago. Going off?...
RAMADI - US attempts to win over tribal collaborators in al-Anbar province have won it more enemies instead. The US military has launched one of its biggest operations to date to regain control of the province, to the west of Baghdad. It had lost control over the...
The drumbeat for war against Iran has begun again, led by Sen. Joe Lieberman, the independent Democrat from Connecticut, and the usual pro-Israel crowd. Lieberman seems to be under the impression that the U.S. can bomb Iran and not get into a full-fledged war. Well,...
What we are seeing in the Middle East, highlighted by the ascension of Hamas in Gaza and a looming civil war among Palestinians, is the virtually complete unraveling of the American enterprise and the country's influence in the region. Wherever the hand of George W....
Four years after the emergence of the first signs of a serious insurgency in Iraq, US President George W. Bush finds himself beset with major crises stretching from Palestine to Pakistan. With US-backed Fatah forces routed by Hamas in Gaza this week, Bush's...
Updated at 10:52 p.m. EDT, June 16, 2007Due to continuing curfews, Baghdad newspapers have ceased operations for the third day in a row. However, reports on Iraqi casualties still managed to get out. At least 26 Iraqis were killed and 40 wounded in today’s...
Updated at 12:50 a.m. EDT, June 16, 2007Curfews already in place have remained in effect or been extended. Basra instigated its own curfew following a shrine bombing there as well. These curfews have kept the violence to a minimum or at least made it difficult to...
Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them John Mueller Free Press, 2006 259 pp. Sept. 11 changed everything, it is said, and nowhere has its effect been more significant than on U.S. foreign...
As he informed Scooter Libby's lawyers that their client would not squirm out of his jail term of two and a half years, Judge Reggie B. Walton revealed that he had been threatened, via letters and phone calls, by some of Libby's more rabid supporters – not really...
Today, Michael Klare, expert on war and energy, and author of the indispensable book, Blood and Oil, gives us an unprecedented sense of what it means when the Pentagon fills its own tank (as well as its tanks). It is, after all, the Hummer of Defense Departments, the...
