Any doubt that the Department of Homeland Security is a joke should be put to rest by its recent detainment and deportation of the pop singer Cat Stevens, who now calls himself Yusuf Islam. The entertainer has mysteriously made it to one of the watch lists that the...
While the 9/11 Commission disbanded after the release of its report on July 22, ten former commissioners have announced the creation of the 9/11 Public Discourse Project (PDP). Over the next year, the PDP plans to "reach out . . . to communities around the country,...
In the most important test of his presidential aspirations to date, Democratic candidate John Kerry clearly bested the incumbent, President George W. Bush, in Thursday night's debate on foreign policy, according to pundits and public-opinion polls taken after the two...
Several high-profile FBI investigations, in which substantial progress has been made, may well have been put on hold by the Bush administration for political reasons. That is, it has been alleged to me that the White House may have leaned on the FBI – not to...
ROME - "Shukran, shukran gesilan, ma salama (Thank you, many thanks, see you later)," Italian aid workers Simona Pari and Simona Torretta said after being freed this week in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. The women, who work for the Italian non-governmental...
"I was at a rap concert the other night," said a 17-year-old neighbor last night. "And they were saying all kinds of crazy things, like 'Bush is a baby-killer.'" He rolled his eyes and laughed. I asked him, "Well the truth is that children and infants have been killed...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), one of the most powerful architects of the world economy and controlled by the planet's wealthiest nations, marked its return to U.S.-occupied Iraq with a new loan worth $436 million. The IMF Executive Board approved the loan...
Fortunately for my own peace of mind, I didn't expect much in the way of positive developments from last night's debate, although I have cheered and continue to cheer John Kerry's decision to make George Bush's incredible mismanagement of the war on Iraq and fumbling...
George W. Bush took a terrible pummeling in Thursday night's debate, as John Kerry took off the gloves and let him have it on the issue of the war. But was it a knockout punch? Kerry only fumbled around for a few minutes as he got his bearings after Jim Lehrer's...
Insufficient security forces and a lack of election observers, combined with regional warlords backed by the United States, continue to threaten the upcoming presidential election in Afghanistan, says a new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW). Local citizens feel the...
