The last few weeks have been base-heavy ones in the news. The Pentagon's provisional Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) list, the first in a decade, was published to domestic screams of pain. It represents, according to the Washington Post, "a sweeping plan to close...
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Even those who have celebrated the recent election in Iraq are concerned that it could give birth to a government dominated by Shi'ite fundamentalist parties that have little respect for the rights of women and minorities. But even those observers worried about the...
On the day that U.S. citizens honored the nation's war dead, the U.S. armed forces found themselves in a twilight zone somewhere between glory and hell. On the one hand, the U.S. soldier has rarely ridden as high in terms of public image; no politician of stature...
MEXICO CITY – A total of 215 Latino soldiers serving in the U.S. Army have already died in Iraq, but according to antiwar activists, this bad news comes with a silver lining: an ever smaller number of young people of Latin American descent are enlisting in the...
The problem with Ukraine's "orange revolution" was perhaps symbolized by the country's entry into the Eurovision Song Contest, Greenjolly's "Razom Nas Bahato" (Together We Are Many). Of course it's just a coincidence that the song was the election campaign theme of...
WASHINGTON - Stung by Amnesty International's condemnation of U.S. detention facilities in Iraq and elsewhere overseas, the administration of President George W. Bush is reacting with indignation and even suggestions that terrorists are using the world's largest human...
NEW DELHI - While India denies that its security agencies helped arrange meetings between a top Nepali Maoist leader and its political establishment, analysts welcome dialogue with the rebels as a key to ending a seemingly intractable crisis in the neighboring...
"The lessons we should learn from all The fighting in the days of old When providence bestowed divine The sanctuary purified Let lightning circle all you hold And don't uproot the olive grove." - Mirah, "Jerusalem" I think it is finally time we stood up and thanked...
The mayhem continues in Iraq, with at least 40 people dead today including five U.S. soldiers in Diyala province, as the meltdown of the failed U.S.-led occupation continues. Two suicide bombers detonated themselves after walking into a crowd of police officers in...
