A band of neoconservative pundits with close ties to Israel have mounted a campaign against American scholars who study the Middle East. Martin Kramer, an Israeli-American and former director of the Dayan Center for Middle East Studies at Tel-Aviv University, has led...
April Fools' Day is traditionally one of good-natured mischief, but not this year. Indeed, U.S. President George W. Bush's trademark smirk, which normally fits the day's spirit almost to a T, was nowhere to be seen Thursday. The reason was clear enough: Iraq suddenly,...
I can't deny that it has been fun to see all the Bushies pushed on the defensive or jolted into attack mode so dramatically that you can't help but discern just how insecure and vulnerable they are – as are most people who are at least dimly aware that they have...
In a scene that conjures memories of Mogadishu, Somalia, where Americans were murdered and dragged through the streets, the grisly killing of 4 American private security guards in Fallujah has reverberated throughout the Western media, giving rise to two reactions:...
WASHINGTON – Just before Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld testified before the 9-11 Commission last week, reporters were handed his prepared statement. Unlike statements by other witnesses during the hearings, his came with an attachment – a stack of papers...
The cold war is long over, but with the support of U.S. supremacists in both parties NATO lives on as America's global cop. Seven more nations are joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and three more Central European nations have their applications...
"He needs to get his story straight," National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice says of her whistleblowing former aide Richard Clarke. Oh, he does? Rice's contradictory statements about what the White House knew or didn't know, did or didn't do, before 9-11...
A newly declassified audiotape and documents released here Wednesday 40 years after the 1964 coup that installed military rule in Brazil show that then US President Lyndon Johnson was directly involved in the decision to back the coup forces, if necessary. In a...
In a shocking upsurge of violence, American deaths in Iraq reached a grim milestone yesterday. The bombing in Fallujah resulted in the deaths of five GIs and four contract workers: In one of the bloodiest days for the U.S. military this year, five 1st Infantry...
Mohammed Haneef Abdul Razak Sheikh says he was held under India's controversial anti-terrorism law for distributing food to victims of the anti-Muslim pogrom that swept western Gujarat state two years ago. All the 287 cases booked under the Prevention of Terrorism Act...
