The media feeding frenzy around what has been referred to as "Iraq's My Lai" has become frenetic. Focus on U.S. Marines slaughtering at least 20 civilians in Haditha last November is reminiscent of the media spasm around the "scandal" of Abu Ghraib during April and...
Ehud Olmert – who assumed the office of prime minister of Israel earlier this month – has just addressed a joint session of what some cynics have been referring to lately as "The Best Congress Money Can Buy." That's the same Congress where House members...
Monday's observance of Memorial Day, the annual commemoration of U.S. soldiers who died in the service of their country, has taken place at a particularly difficult moment for both the U.S. armed forces and the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush. While...
For months, the attention of the U.S. news media, pundits, and elected officials has been riveted on the aims of ultraconservative Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. President George W. Bush in particular has invoked Ahmadinejad's alleged drive for nuclear weapons...
On Memorial Day, we should honor those who are buried after dying in the country's wars, but be a little more skeptical of the U.S. government actions that put them there. It is often said that they died for "freedom" or their "country," but more...
Have you ever thought how peaceful and prosperous we would be if our national leaders had followed the advice of George Washington in his "Farewell Address"? For starters, we would not be hopelessly in debt, and there would not be so many Americans buried in national...
Is the Bush Regime a state sponsor of terrorism? A powerful case can be made that it is. In the past three years, the Bush Regime has murdered tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians and an unknown number of Afghan ones. U.S. Marines, our finest and proudest military...
On Feb. 6, 2006, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales launched a convoluted attack on the Fourth Amendment before the Senate Judiciary Committee. This assault on the meaning of the Fourth Amendment is, in my estimation, the biggest leap forward for totalitarianism...
NEW DELHI - The United States and India have taken yet another step toward finalizing the nuclear cooperation agreement they signed in July last year and more key lawmakers in Washington have expressed support for the deal. The agreement makes a special, one-time...
I don't believe a word of this tall tale from Ynet – the online version of Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel's most popular daily newspaper – claiming that Hezbollah is planning a terrorist attack on the upcoming World Cup tournament to be held in Germany: "The...
