Abuses and even torture of Iraqi detainees by U.S. Marines have been widespread, according to U.S. Navy documents released Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Among the worst was a June 2003 case in which four Iraqi juveniles were forced to kneel...
UNITED NATIONS - After long refusing to risk the lives of its workers in Iraq, the United Nations has reversed its stance and is planning to expand its international staff in the violence-ridden country in time for upcoming elections in late January. "The current...
Question: How many people does it take to fill a mass grave? No, this is not a joke, because although I don't know the "official" answer, the one thing I do know about mass extermination is that it's typically not a subject that lends itself well to humor....
The headlines blared: "Doctors Confirm Yushchenko Poison Claim" – and, yes, even I believed it. But, you know what? It's a lie. And now the truth is coming out…. I knew there was something fishy about the whole...
With Bush's 51 percent victory, Colin Powell's departure, and the purge at CIA, many on the Old Right seem sunk in Bunyan's Slough of Despond. They assume the neoconservatives are now free to pursue war without end. Yet, six weeks have now passed since Nov. 2,...
Never underestimate the contribution neoconservative women in the scribbling and broadcasting professions have made to sexing up the war. When a bunch of babes with bursting décolletages quakes and quivers for military action, their fans (males, especially) do more...
"When the prisoners first arrived at the camp, widely-published photographs showed them blindfolded, chained, and manacled...." - BBC News "From the time they are driven onto the base, recruits are told to keep their heads down and eyes closed. The less...
Despite being asked by President George W. Bush to stay in his post, Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld appears to be in growing political trouble, and not just because of his cavalier reply last week to a question posed by a member of the Tennessee National Guard in...
TORONTO - Ottawa's tendency to take contradictory or ambiguous political positions on sensitive issues will be put to the test in the current debate over the U.S. request that its northern neighbor endorse its controversial ballistic missile defense (BMD) program. If...
UNITED NATIONS - Despite UN reservations about the legitimacy of upcoming polls and warnings about deteriorating security in military-occupied, war ravaged Iraq, the government is determined to hold elections in January, a senior official told the UN Security Council...
