Updated at 12:15 p.m EDT, June 7, 2007At least 90 Iraqis were killed or found dead today and another 95 Iraqis were wounded during violent incidents. An American MND-B soldier was killed and two more wounded yesterday in the capital. Also, one British soldier was...
Lincoln, Civil Liberties, and 9/11
Abraham Lincoln, it would seem, is in the midst of a career revival. In recent years, the 16th president has been praised by the likes of author Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Lincoln boosterism has been prominently featured on high-traffic political blogs such as Power...
Unprepared for Bioterrorism
Last week, Andrew Speaker an Atlanta, Ga., personal injury lawyer with XDR-TB, a form of tuberculosis that is resistant to almost all antibiotics created a big health scare by exposing fellow travelers to a dangerous infection. Speaker flew from Atlanta...
If You Think Bush Is Evil Now, Wait Until He Nukes Iran
The war in Iraq is lost. This fact is widely recognized by American military officers and has been recently expressed forcefully by Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq during the first year of the attempted occupation. Winning is no longer...
The Pentagon’s Blank Check
Soon after the invasion of Iraq was launched, war supporters and critics alike, in a bow to the Vietnam era, began to speak referentially of the "Q-word" for "quagmire," of course. By now, Iraq has had that administration-inspired "Q" hung firmly around its...
Could an al-Qaeda Attack Trigger War With Iran?
Following revelations of a George W. Bush administration policy to hold Iran responsible for any al-Qaeda attack on the U.S. that could be portrayed as planned on Iranian soil, former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski warned last week that Washington might...
Iraq and the Korean ‘Model’
Any doubts that the U.S. is engaged in a colonial adventure in Iraq because we're "liberators," not imperialists ought to be permanently dispelled now that top administration officials are holding up the "Korean model" as a framework...
Aide’s Sentence Caps Star-Crossed Year for Cheney
Tuesday's sentencing to 30 months in prison of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby by a federal judge for lying to government investigators about his role in leaking the identity of a CIA operative marks the latest in a series of blows to Vice President Dick Cheney....
Wednesday: 6 GIs, 122 Iraqis Killed; 70 Iraqis Wounded
Updated at 12:28 a.m. EDT, June 7, 2007At least 122 Iraqis were killed and 70 were wounded during attacks which including a car bombing near a shrine in Baghdad. Six more GIs were killed in action, bringing the tally of U.S servicemembers who have died serving in Iraq...
Backtalk, June 5, 2007
Pakistan Is Going Down the Road of the Shah's Iran Political commentators generally tend to misrepresent the position of Islamists in Pakistan. Being close to Pakistan and actively observing the current events it becomes quite obvious that despite the post-Sept. 11...


