Imagine that you have an oil well that contains enough oil to supply annually three times the amount you would ever want to use in a year. Suppose that one of your main current uses of oil is to generate electric power for your ranch. Would you want to buy electric...
While it may be in questionable taste to celebrate at this time of national disaster, with Iraq falling to pieces and the security of the United States compromised as never before, one can't help but savor this delicious moment as the neoconservatives fall from their...
Updated at 7:00 p.m. EDT, Oct. 23, 2006 With Ramadan over, Sunni Muslims today began to observe the joyous holiday of Eid al-Fitr. Shi’ite Muslims begin this celebration of the end of Ramadan fasting tomorrow. While some Iraqis have used the holiday as an...
Updated at 6:25 p.m. EDT, Oct. 23, 2006 Six American servicemembers were killed on Sunday and another six died on Saturday. Also, a civilian contractor was killed and four U.S. soldiers were injured when a roadside bomb blasted their vehicle as it was traveling...
The conventional wisdom in Washington is that the North Korean nuclear test is just the latest demonstration of the Bush Doctrine being challenged by an aggressive international player intent on defying the dictates of the current global hegemon. Hence, if after the...
In some ways, amid the internecine bloodletting, torture, spiking American casualties, death-dealing confusion, and general mayhem, here's all you need to know about the Iraqi "government" of Nouri al-Maliki. When the prime minister wanted to check on whether he was...
More than 70 percent of the U.S. public, including nearly half of self-identified Republicans, say they prefer candidates for Congress in the Nov. 7 mid-term elections who will pursue a "new approach" to U.S. foreign policy, according to a new survey...
When George W. Bush became president, as best the on-site monitors of the International Atomic Energy Agency could determine, the North Koreans were in total compliance with The Agreed Framework Between the United States of America and the Democratic People’s...
Perhaps the most fascinating thing about North Korea conducting what U.S. intelligence now believes, on the basis of radiation sampling, was an actual nuclear test, is how little it substantively changes the strategic equation in northern Asia. North Korea is still an...
While Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's continued tenure in office has been the subject of a surge of speculation over the past week, it may be George W. Bush's continued reign – at least over Iraq policy – that appears most endangered at the moment....
