In a new blow to the dwindling number of hawks in top administration positions, President George W. Bush Monday accepted the resignation of his ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton. The resignation came less than three weeks after Bush had resubmitted...
Bolton Resigns in
Rice’s Iran Strategy Fizzles, Cheney Waits in Wings
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's months-long diplomatic effort to get five other powers to agree to a tough United Nations Security Council resolution on sanctions against Iran now seems certain to fail, because of Russian and Chinese resistance. The...
Tuesday: 191 Iraqis, 3 GIs Killed; 91 Iraqis Wounded
Updated at 11:35 p.m. EST, Dec. 5, 2006 Attacks in Baghdad and an intense battle in Ramadi easily brought today's tally to 191 Iraqis killed or found dead and 91 injured. Also, one U.S. soldier was killed and five more wounded when militiamen attacked their patrol in...
Alexander Litvinenko: Blackmailer, Smuggler, Gangster Extraordinaire
If a would-be novelist desperate for money and some kind of recognition put the events surrounding the death of ex-KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko into a fictional narrative, one can only imagine the kind of reviews it would generate. An improbable plot...
Monday: 89 Iraqis Killed, 10 Iraqis Wounded
Updated at 11:15 p.m. EST, Dec. 4, 2006 At least 89 Iraqis were killed or found dead today and another 10 were wounded in violent attacks. Also, the weekend death toll for U.S. servicemembers grew by at least four when a U.S. helicopter made an emergency water landing...
Sunday: 13 GIs, 108 Iraqis Killed; Pilot Listed As KIA
Updated at 1:00 p.m. EST, Dec. 4, 2006 On Sunday, U.S. military sources reported on the deaths of nine U.S. servicemembers in separate incidents across Iraq over the weekend; two soldiers were also wounded. Monday morning, authorities added four dead servicemembers to...
Is President Bush Sane?
Tens of millions of Americans want President George W. Bush to be impeached for the lies and deceit he used to launch an illegal war and for violating his oath of office to uphold the US Constitution. Millions of other Americans want Bush turned over to the war crimes...
Polonium-210, Fiction and Fact
According to Seymour Hersh, in early 2004, John Bolton, who was then the Under-Secretary of State for Arms Control, privately conveyed to International Atomic Energy Agency officials his suspicions that Iran was conducting research at Parchin, the center of...
Sense and Stubbornness
The meeting in Jordan between President Bush and Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki unless the private discussions were a whole lot more frank and productive than it is reasonable to believe they probably were, based on public statements and background...
Saturday: 187 Iraqis, 1 GI Killed; 83 Iraqis Wounded
Updated at 1:35 a.m. EST, Dec. 4, 2006 The U.S military reported the first American servicemember death for December, and at least 187 Iraqis were also killed, another 83 were wounded, in various events. The most notable incident was a triple bombing of a Shi’te...


