When misleading buzzwords become part of the media landscape, they slant news coverage and skew public perceptions. That's the story with the phrase "Iraqi forces" now in routine use by U.S. media outlets, including the country's most influential...
Preemptive Strikes Will Not Disarm Iran
In 1981, Israel bombed Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor when it believed Saddam Hussein was close to producing a nuclear bomb. Growing concern about advances in Iran's nuclear capabilities has fanned speculation that Israel could launch an attack against key Iranian...
Human Rights Personnel Under Attack
UNITED NATIONS - The world's human rights defenders including lawyers, journalists, judges, women's activists, and representatives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are increasingly coming under attack by repressive governments, according to a...
Hubris Goeth Before…
I spent a couple of hours with Condoleezza Rice back in 1999, when I was a media fellow at the Hoover Institution and she was still provost at Stanford but already an adviser to Dubya, who was obviously going to be influential. Then I wrote about it for WorldNetDaily....
Politics of Destruction
It is not uncommon for countries that have been infected by democracy to fall prey to a malaise in which every sphere of life becomes political, i.e., falls under the control or influence of the state. The amount of power this gives the state becomes so strong a lure...
India Firm on Status Quo in Kashmir
NEW DELHI - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh ruled out Wednesday any change in the status of Kashmir and indicated that he would not agree to a redrawing of India's borders with Pakistan as a solution to the long-disputed territory. Pakistani President Gen. Pervez...
Sign Here, Kid
He trolled for teenagers in North Carolina high schools, barked orders at recruits in boot camp, and pulled charred civilian corpses out of cars in Iraq. Now Jimmy Massey is making good on his promise to tell the whole world what he learned as a Marine. For the first...
Slash and Burn
She lays dazed in the crowded hospital room, languidly waving her bruised arm at the flies. Her shins, shattered by bullets from U.S. soldiers when they fired through the front door of her house, are both covered by casts. Small plastic drainage bags filled with red...
Amnesty Calls for Prevention of War Crimes in Iraq
In the wake of the apparent extrajudicial execution by a U.S. soldier of a wounded Iraqi prisoner in Fallujah, caught on videotape by NBC, Amnesty International is calling on the U.S. authorities to issue "unequivocal orders" for the proper treatment of unarmed or...
Gitmo Trials Continue Despite Ruling
In spite of a court ruling that halted the military trial of a Guantanamo detainee last week, the military is continuing to conduct another kind of controversial hearing for prisoners held at the U.S. base in Cuba. On Monday, a prisoner accused of delivering money to...


