President Barack Obama has sided with U.S. military and Defense Department officials in rejecting a proposal by the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan for a U.S. apology for last weekend's attack on two Pakistani border posts, and approving an investigation into the attack...
Dozens Wounded in Iraqi Kurdistan riots, 12 Iraqis Killed Elsewhere
Iraq: Pomp and Controversy Mark US ‘Reposture’ Ceremonies; 16 Iraqis Killed
He was 22… She was 12…
He was 22, a corporal in the Marines from Preston, Iowa, a "city" incorporated in 1890 with a present population of 949. He died in a hospital in Germany of "wounds received from an explosive device while on patrol in Helmand province...
Netanyahu Tries to Hide the Occupation
As protests raged again across the Middle East, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, offered his assessment of the Arab Spring last week. It was, he said, an "Islamic, anti-western, anti-liberal, anti-Israeli, undemocratic wave," adding that Israel's...
Violence Leaves 26 Killed in Iraq, as Country Ponders Maliki Third Term
Pak Border Post Attack a Big Loss for US War Policy
The U.S. military and the Barack Obama administration have been thrown into confusion by the attack on two Pakistani military posts near the border with Afghanistan Saturday morning, even as the attacks provoked the Pakistani government and military leadership into...
Neocons Preoccupied With Islamic Conspiracy Theories
The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement, for all its flaws, is a genuine expression of the growing recognition in the United States that the government no longer serves the interests of the people. It has been described as an American version of the “Arab Spring,”...
War on Terror Keeps on Giving
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. - Thomas Jefferson The United States has entered a period of unparalleled tyranny for the nation, and a shotgun blast of it...
Can Congress Steal Your Constitutional Freedoms?
Can the president use the military to arrest anyone he wants, keep that person away from a judge and jury, and lock him up for as long as he wants? In the Senate's dark and terrifying vision of the Constitution, he can. Congress is supposed to work in public. That...


