In politics, truth telling can be dangerous. Remember when Jimmy Carter was voted out of office, in part, for telling the American people, in a time of high inflation and unemployment, what they didn't want to hear – that they were self indulgent and consumed...
According to the Guardian, a few months ago President Bush put the kibosh on Israel's plan to take out, in a preventative strike, Iran's nuclear facilities, despite all being duly subject to a Safeguards Agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency, as...
Updated at 5:02 p.m. EDT, Oct. 4, 2008In Baghdad, two U.S. helicopters collided during landing but left only a few causalties. Elsewhere, at least seven Iraqis were killed, including a suspected senior al-Qaeda leader. Only two Iraqi wounded were reported today. Also,...
America Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11 Derek Chollet and James Goldgeier PublicAffairs 412 pp. The end of the Cold War – the dissolution of the Soviet Union, crash of the Eastern European Soviet satellites, collapse of the Warsaw Pact, and fall of the Berlin...
The $700 billion bailout for the Wall Street poobahs looks ready to sail through the House of Representatives, which earlier – and uncharacteristically – listened to the popular will and voted a resounding "No!" heard ‘round the world. After going back...
While the US Senate's approval of a controversial nuclear deal with India was hailed by the White House Thursday as a major advance in Washington's "strategic relationship" with the South Asian giant, weapons experts warned that it dealt a serious blow to...
Updated at 5:13 p.m. EDT, Oct. 3, 2008A day after Baghdad was rocked by multiple bombings, quiet seemingly returned to the city; however, it is the prayer day so many reporters have taken the day off to worship. One U.S. soldier was killed in a roadside bombing in...
It takes half a million dollars per year to maintain each sergeant in combat in Iraq. Thanks to a Senate committee inquiry, an authoritative government study finally details the costs of keeping boots on the ground. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO), in its report...
Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files, looks at recent disturbing developments in the Military Commission trial system at Guantánamo, and traces a chain of command that runs from the Commissions' supposedly impartial "Convening...
One way to look at the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is to see them as one war with two fronts. Germany fought two-front wars twice in the 20th century, and it was almost able to prevail because it had the advantage of interior lines. The German Army could quickly...
