Is there anything at all left of the Bush administration's case for going to war in Iraq or, for that matter, the way it has been fought? The answer seems increasingly doubtful given what appears to be an accelerating cascade of news, leaks and admissions by senior...
Glenn A. Fine, Inspector General U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Suite 4322 Washington, D.C. 20530-0001 Dear Mr. Fine: I have reviewed the recently released redacted and unclassified version of your department's audit of the FBI's Foreign...
UNITED NATIONS - Nationwide elections in Iraq, scheduled to take place before the end of January 2005, are now jeopardized by two powerful UN staff unions demanding that no UN employees be sent to the violence-ridden country. "Just one staff member is one staff...
Civil liberties and immigrant rights advocates say House Republicans are using legislation based on the 9/11 Commission's recommendations as cover to implement a series of troubling, unrelated reforms condoning torture, limiting immigration and increasing surveillance...
The idea that John Kerry is some kind of peacenik, who will get us out of Iraq and drive the neocons out of the Temple of Democracy, is a myth that will die a hard death, but die it must. I realize that a lot of my readers have invested their hopes and dreams in the...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - "We are trying our level best to educate Afghan women on the election process. But their men seem determined to prevent them from voting on election day," says electoral officer Shahla Ghaffar Khan. "Many women are also reluctant to...
NEW DELHI - Four years ago, they exuberantly declared they were "natural allies," being two of the world's biggest democracies. Last year, they vowed to pursue their "strategic partnership" and their campaigns against "terror" with full...
Britain's Channel 4 News has broadcast a 30-second video clip of a U.S. pilot killing a group of what appear to be civilians on a Fallujah street. The video includes an audio track of the pilot's conversation with mission controllers. As the UK Independent notes, "At...
One can only imagine the utter outrage that would engulf world leaders and the media if a series of Palestinian bombings rocked an Israeli town and in less than four days killed 60 people and wounded hundreds, mostly innocent civilians. Not even the most open-minded...
Whose Fault Is It?My name is Øyvind Munthe from Norway and I'd just like to thank you for what in my opinion is a very informative and more or less objective column about the Middle East conflict (the Israeli/ Palestinian conflict). Your column is my favorite...
