CHICAGO - Ibrahim Parlak's customers and friends know him as the gentle, hard-working Kurdish immigrant from Turkey who runs Café Gulistan in the placid lakeside town of Harbert, Michigan. Before he was incarcerated by U.S. authorities and threatened with...
First: The "Who." Initially seven, then 28, were charged or under investigation. Now at least two more may be charged and as many as 53 have been implicated. An additional five have been singled out by name as bearing responsibility. More may eventually be charged or...
DAMAK, NEPAL - Suspecting Maoist infiltration in their ranks, security forces have tightened restrictions and surveillance on the 100,000 Bhutanese refugees in Nepal, making it difficult for them to find work, even as geopolitical intrigues are impeding their return...
The burgeoning scandal over claims that a Pentagon official passed highly classified secrets to a Zionist lobby group appears to be part of a much broader set of FBI and Pentagon investigations of close collaboration between prominent U.S. neoconservatives and Israel...
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The first of the criminal military hearings for detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, ended this week amidst complaints from defense lawyers about lack of resources and harsh criticism from human rights groups. Even before the hearings began on Tuesday, they were mired...
While the latest reports investigating the widely condemned events at Abu Ghraib prison attempt to close the book on the Pentagon's culpability with a somber critique, new evidence gathered for a class action lawsuit filed against two U.S.-based private contractors...
Against Bush, but Not for KerryI love this site. I visit it all the time. I agree with you in part on John Kerry. He doesn't excite me. But Bush is terrifying. He exhibits all of the classic traits of a megalomaniac. He is inflexible, and demonstrates almost a sadism...
CBS is reporting that a Defense Intelligence Agency analyst detailed to Undersecretary of Defense for Planning Douglas Feith's Office of Special Plans is under FBI investigation for spying for Israel. The person passed to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee...
Soon after the Warsaw Pact collapsed in 1989, Bush the Elder began retrieving the thousands of "tactical" nukes we had forward deployed in NATO countries for use against invading Warsaw Pact armies. Did the Soviet Union follow suit? Well, no. It turns out...
