The George W. Bush administration's legal justification for continuing to hold prisoners without charges at the US naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba will be back in the US Supreme Court – yet again – early next month. And the decision of the nine...
Updated at 12:20 a.m. EST, Nov. 23, 2007Mortars rained on the Green Zone has American troops there were celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday. The British base in Basra also received a round of shelling. At least 66 Iraqis were killed or found dead and another 36 were...
Imagine Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice telling a group of leading U.S. policymakers that Iran's nuclear weapons program does not pose a direct threat to U.S. security, or former CIA Director George Tenet making the same kind of argument in a public forum. Imagine...
According to legend, its flag sprang from the reflection of a star and the crescent moon in a pool of native warriors' blood. The national anthem exults, "Martyrs would gush out were one to squeeze the soil!" Of all the Muslim countries created after World...
James Circello sat on the edge of his bed staring at the floral pattern on a generic hotel comforter, contemplating what life would be like in prison. It was early August, and his parents had given him a one-way bus ticket to Lawton, Okla., and told him he was welcome...
The warlords of Washington don't care about international public opinion, and that goes double for what Americans think. The politicians, the bureaucrats, the policy wonks, and the lobbyists (both foreign and domestic) could care less that the people of this country,...
FALLUJAH - Three years after a devastating U.S.-led siege of the city, residents of Fallujah continue to struggle with a shattered economy and infrastructure and a lack of mobility. The city that was routed in November 2004 is still suffering the worst humanitarian...
While the vast majority of analysts agree that sectarian violence in Iraq has declined sharply from pre-"surge" levels one year ago, a major debate has broken out as to whether the achievement of the surge's strategic objective – national reconciliation – is...
Updated at 11:40 p.m. EST, Nov. 21, 2007Today, two previously reported Coalition troops deaths were revealed to have been British. The U.S. military said that an American soldier was killed in a separate incident. Also, at least 74 Iraqis were killed or found dead and...
Why Are They So Afraid of Ron Paul? Justin Raimondo describes Glenn Greenwald as having to choose between "liberal hawks and outright neocons." It is the clarity of Ron Paul's positions that is allowing people to finally realize that there is no difference between the...
