Today, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear what will almost certainly be one of the landmark cases of the past 50 years. Its decision will determine whether the Supreme Court will continue to assert its authority to review and check the executive's power to detain and...
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"If I must die, I will die," Abdul Rahman told a human rights worker. Facing execution for converting to Christianity, Rahman had just been moved from a jail in Kabul, where his life was in imminent peril, to the notorious Policharki prison outside Kabul, where 2,000...
Imagine you are in Lafayette Park, across from the White House, setting up tents and loudspeakers without a permit to occupy the park with a group of several thousand protesters, guzzling beer and vodka. How long do you think it would be before the Secret Service or...
The U.S. is losing patience with the Iraqis, averred Sen. John McCain the other day in Baghdad, going into his favorite mode of self-righteous hectoring, warning them they had better get on with the business of forming a government. The senator cited polls showing...
Every day that passes, Americans will be less welcomed in Iraq, and I wouldn't take lightly the warning of an Iraqi cleric who said, "You should leave before we force you out." An army that won't fight is one thing. Twenty million people willing to stab you in the...
While President Bush appears serenely confident about Iraq, the same cannot be said of the War Party propagandists who were plotting this conflict when Dubya was still a rookie governor of Texas. William Kristol of The Weekly Standard now demands the firing of...
Last week's anniversary of the start of the Iraq War prompted loads of discussions. For some reason, journalists love anniversaries, though of course they are highly selective in which anniversaries they take note of. Out of these discussions always comes the...
Wrapping up a week of over 600 protest actions to mark three years since the United States invaded Iraq, activists here say that antiwar sentiment has become the dominant perspective in the U.S. and leaves the war "without legitimacy." Joining thousands of...
Back in November, 2004, the United Kingdom, France and Germany (E3) undertook to negotiate with Iran on behalf of the European Union a mutually acceptable long-term agreement which would provide the EU "objective guarantees" that Iran's nuclear program is exclusively...
