Updated at 3:05 a.m. EST, Feb. 20, 2008The Interior Ministry began rounding up homeless and mentally challenged people in Baghdad to prevent their exploitation by armed groups. Meanwhile, a large explosion in Baghdad killed over a dozen policemen who were trying to...
Americans traditionally thought of their country as a "city upon a hill," a "light unto the world." Today only the deluded think that. Polls show that the rest of the world regards the U.S. and Israel as the two greatest threats to peace. This is...
How did we manage to mire ourselves in the midst of Mesopotamia, enmeshed in a three-sided (at least) civil war, with vanishing hopes of extrication – and the putative Republican presidential nominee hailing a hundred-year occupation? The key to this mystery may...
So I'm waiting around for Robert Marleau to give me some information about Canadian prisoners in Afghanistan, having waited 14 months, the waiting likely to be longer now that I've posted a snotty letter to him about the delay, and I can't help but notice the Manley...
"Is the American era over?" That was the big question that launched a lengthy analysis by veteran international affairs reporter James Kitfield in the influential National Journal last May. Significantly, the article – which featured interviews with an...
President George W. Bush's critics are charging that he is attempting to use a "backdoor signing statement" to thwart Congress' desire to lift the veil of secrecy that has shrouded the U.S. government for the past seven years. In August 2007, Congress passed the Open...
Updated at 1:50 a.m. EST, Feb. 19, 2008At least 29 Iraqis were killed or found dead and another 36 were wounded during the latest attacks. Rocket fire targeted the Green Zone and Baghdad International Airport. No Coalition deaths were reported. A roadside bomb in...
The Pentagon has long had a conflict of interest. The Department of Defense builds the weapons of war (albeit in a grossly inefficient manner using a captive defense industry that is a ward of the state). Yet the department also supervises and funds 85 percent of the...
Updated at 1:22 a.m. EST, Feb. 18, 2008The U.S. Army noted that attacks on Coalition troops and Iraqi security forces dropped significantly over the last year; however, two American soldiers were killed and another was wounded during a small arms attack in Diyala...
The recent spectacle of Congressional hearings on the alleged use of steroids and/or Human Growth Hormone (HGH) by Roger Clemens, a professional baseball player nicknamed "the Rocket," throws into question the viability and functionality of a Congress controlled by...
