Updated at 12:13 a.m. EST, Mar. 18, 2007 A series of chemical attacks in Anbar Province punctuated a relatively quiet day in Iraq. Overall, at least 64 people were killed or found dead today, but at least 401 were wounded or poisoned. Eight American servicemembers...
Denouement on Iraq: First Stop the Bleeding
MEMORANDUM FOR: Speaker of the House Senate Majority Leader FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) SUBJECT: Denouement on Iraq: First Stop the Bleeding In the coming weeks a Congress that is willing to assert its prerogative as a co-equal branch of...
The Original American Foreign Policy
"It is our true policy to steer clear of entangling alliances with any portion of the foreign world." George Washington I have written before about the critical need for Congress to reassert its authority over foreign policy, and for the American people to...
Iraqis Search for Political Leadership
BAGHDAD - Many Iraqis are now looking to local political leadership to fill wide gaps in a fractured government that is failing to provide security and basic needs. "Iraqis feel lost amongst too many political currents that blew their country away with their...
Libertarianism
and the Great Divide
Brian Dohertys Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement, contains just about everything you might find in such a book: portraits of movement luminaries, such as Ludwig von Mises, Ayn Rand, Murray Rothbard,...
The Problem with Barack Obama’s Israel Pose
Sen. Barack Obama isn't quite sure how he feels about the lopsided situation between Israel and Palestine. Less than two weeks after Obama gloated to AIPAC about his love for Israel, he unexpectedly admitted the truth while campaigning in Iowa recently. "[N]obody...
The Last Days of Constitutional Rule?
The Bush administration's greatest success is its ability to escape accountability for its numerous impeachable offenses. The administration's offenses against US law, the US Constitution, civil liberties, human rights, and the Geneva Conventions, its lies to Congress...
Friday: 2 GIs, 62 Iraqis Killed; 126 Iraqis Wounded
Updated at 12:51 a.m. EST, Mar. 17, 2007At least 62 Iraqis were reported killed or found dead today and another 126 were wounded. Also, the U.S. military reported that two more American servicemembers were killed in separate incidents yesterday. An American soldier...
Taiwan, a Spark Plug for War
Taiwan has been an ally and friend of the U.S. for more than five decades. But with the emergence of the People's Republic of China (PRC) on the world stage, the so-called Republic of China (ROC) has become a possible flashpoint for war. If America and the PRC come to...
Desperately Seeking a Leader
Zoran Djindjic, prime minister and the most powerful man in Serbia since the October 2000 coup, was assassinated on March 12, 2003. Fate would have it that Slobodan Milosevic, the man Djindjic helped overthrow, and whom he illegally extradited to the Hague Inquisition...


