It had to happen sooner or later, and Barack Obama's startling rise to near the top of the Democratic presidential pack made it sooner – I'm talking about his speech to the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). It starts out with a riff about his ride...
Updated at 1:15 a.m. EST, Mar. 6, 2007At least 126 Iraqis were reported killed or found dead and another 196 Iraqis were injured, including 30 people who had been held captive and tortured in southern Iraq. Also, bombings and shootings continued in Baghdad despite the...
Murder, Inc. Dear Justin, I am an adjunct political philosophy professor at the University of Notre Dame. I gave a lecture on Abu Ghraib a few years back in which I basically expressed the ideas that you articulated in this column. So, thanks for putting it in print....
Interviewed Feb. 14, 2007. Click here to listen. Our guest is Wayne White. He is an adjunct scholar at the Middle East Institute and former deputy director of the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Office of Analysis for the Near East and South...
How much is the U.S. war on Iraq costing you? That depends on who you are. For Iraqis, Americans, or Brits who were killed, it cost them everything. I say it in that order because that is the order in numbers killed. So far, a conservative estimate of the number of...
Nothing reminds us more of how much the American constitutional system has been transformed, of just how extreme the "imperial presidency" has become, than Congress' generally woeful record in the second half of the last century and in the first years of this one to...
Updated at 2:15 a.m EST, Mar. 5, 2007U.S. troops re-entered Sadr City by the hundreds. No casualties were reported there, but 59 Iraqis were killed in separate events elsewhere, and another 23 were injured. Also, the family of a Navy corpsman said that he was killed...
After years of deliberations and challenges over competency, the International Court of Justice rejected charges of genocide pressed against Serbia by the Muslim-dominated government of Bosnia-Herzegovina during the civil war in that country: "Serbia has not committed...
Way back on 26 May 2003, more than a month before the Cheney Cabal outed Valerie Plame as a covert CIA operative – running agents in Iran, Iraq and elsewhere, seeking information on weapons of mass destruction, under cover of Brewster-Jennings, a CIA-front...
It's interesting how much of our language is taken from war. Politicians in particular like to wage "war" on such things as cancer, drugs and terrorism (all of them lost so far). Aspiring politicians who probably haven't had a real fight since second grade always...
