Analysts both in the Muslim and the Western world by and large agree that fear and lack of objective dialogue are the root cause of Islamophobia and anti-Americanism. And while the debate on which one of the two ignited the other is still ongoing, one fact remains...
Updated at 1:05 a.m. EST, Jan. 28, 2007 The U.S. military announced that seven U.S. servicemembers were killed and three wounded. Also, at least 92 Iraqi were killed or found dead today and another 83 were wounded in various attacks throughout the country. Baghdad...
There are two concepts all of us have to struggle with. One is our individuality. The other is the mass. Individual soldiers who survive combat often come home to realize that all of the horrific and heroic actions they took don't mean anything. Vietnam, for example,...
Say what you will about Sarah Olson, she got the story. On the ground and armed with only an audio tape recorder, reporter Olson did nothing more radical than dig deep – the first law of journalism. Her interview with Lt. Ehren Watada vividly painted the portrait...
Three days of sectarian violence has once again brought this troubled country to breaking point. A mini-civil war has played out throughout Lebanon this week as Government and Opposition factions push their power struggle to the brink. The "peaceful" general strike...
As the Feb. 21 deadline for Iran to halt its uranium enrichment program fast approaches, both Iran and the West are scrambling to prepare themselves for all possible moves by the other side. A scenario causing some discomfort among decision-makers in the George W....
Rejecting the notion that the United States was planning to attack Iran and Syria, White House Spokesman Tony Snow called it a myth or an "urban legend." "I want to address [a] kind of a rumor, an urban legend that's going around," Snow told reporters at a White House...
It is obvious from their stories that most of the "reporters" covering the trial of Lewis Libby – charged with perjury and obstruction of justice – have either never bothered to read the five count indictment [.pdf] or are too stupid to comprehend what they...
The American public and the US Congress are getting their backs up about the Bush Regime's determination to escalate the war in Iraq. A massive protest demonstration is occurring in Washington DC today, and Congress is expressing its disagreement with Bush's decision...
Text of testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 18 January 2007 Good afternoon, Senator Biden, and members of the committee. It is a grave responsibility to testify before you today because the issue, the war in Iraq, is of such monumental importance....
