With Ali al-Fadhily FALLUJAH - Increased violence is being countered by harsh new measures across the Sunni-dominated al-Anbar province west of Baghdad, residents say. "Thousands have been killed here by the Multinational Forces [MNF] and Iraqi allies, and the...
In a major policy address, Sen. Hillary Clinton Tuesday called for a "sea change" in U.S. foreign policy that would include direct talks with Syria, Iran, and North Korea and greater U.S. engagement in promoting peace between Israel and the Palestinians....
Updated at 11:45 a.m. EST, Nov. 2, 2006 Another 91 Iraqis were killed and 42 more wounded in violent acts today. November's first U.S. military fatality occurred today west of Baghdad; a soldier was killed when a roadside bomb blasted his vehicle. The U.S. military...
At the height of the epic Battle of Britain in 1940, when British airmen were killed at an appalling rate ("never was so much owed by so many to so few"), an official in charge of propaganda had a bright idea to raise morale. On the walls at the Royal Air Force bases...
A Jewish Hitler? Justin Raimondo: My first letter. Thanks for your site, which I have been compulsively reading for months now. It gathers the cream of commentary like no other. Two things: Since reading "Reconnecting With the Reality-Based Community," Scott...
For the first time since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, active-duty members of the military are asking members of Congress to end the occupation of Iraq and bring U.S. soldiers home. More than 100 soldiers announced Wednesday that they are seeking protection under...
The third and final act in the national tragedy that is the Bush administration may soon play itself out. The Okhrana reports increasing indications of "something big" happening between the election and Christmas. That could be the long-planned attack on...
When President George W. Bush was asked at his news conference last Wednesday whether we are winning in Iraq, he answered, "Absolutely; we're winning." The disingenuousness was almost enough to provoke sympathy for the beleaguered president as he lived...
As the position of the Coalition forces in Iraq looks increasingly untenable, it is not just the fate of the national military contingents that is in question. Private military contractors, which make up the second largest Coalition contingent, are also considering...
November 1956, 50 years ago, was a month the drama of which many of us can yet recall. It was a defining moment of the Cold War. This was the month Eisenhower was reelected in a landslide and in which he laid down, in simultaneous crises, the new ground rules of the...
