Delusions and Hysteria Rule the Frustrated Balkans It has been eight years since the "Kosovo Liberation Army" openly received NATO support for its separatist war against Serbia; over 14 years since Washington and Brussels recognized the declaration of independence...
Five years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon, the U.S. public has become increasingly anxious about world events and the role that their country is playing in them, according to the latest "Confidence in U.S. Foreign Policy"...
A former Department of Homeland Security official who also worked for George W. Bush in Texas says his old friend exaggerated the threat from Saddam Hussein and only made America less safe by attacking Iraq. Before serving as Bush's first Homeland Security inspector...
Updated 11:15 p.m. EDT, Oct. 19, 2006 Today, at least 120 Iraqis were killed and 179 more were wounded in ongoing violence. Three American soldiers were reported killed, one Marine died, and three more soldiers were injured. A Marine died "from enemy action" in Anbar...
Well, that tears it. I read the Military Commissions Act of 2006 on my sh*tty little dial-up connection here in the cabin, and immediately went to the pawn shop in Moab and bought another rifle. Five of them now in the stash, plus a couple pistols. Ready enough to arm...
As the "failure" or "partial success" of an apparent atomic bomb by North Korea reverberates around the world, with many automatically judging the test a failure, ignored is the Bush administration's concept of "usable nukes," or "mini-nukes." The Democratic...
The death of Anna Politkovskaya, a Russian journalist and avowed foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was the occasion for a veritable orgy of Russia-bashing, one that the Western media and their Russian teachers' pets lingered over with voluptuous abandon. Amid...
If Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Kamal al-Maliki were inclined to bet his life on President George W. Bush's latest assurances that there will be no timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, he should probably give it a second thought. While Bush, true to his...
Updated at 12:40 p.m. EDT, Oct. 19, 2006 In a relatively quiet day for Iraqi citizens, 78 Iraqis are known dead and another 44 have suffered injuries due to ongoing violence in the country. The U.S. military announced that one American soldier died today and 10...
Why We Still Fight Mr. Lind: I read your article as noted above, and would like to express to you how thankful I am for writers such as yourself. My son is presently in Ramadi, and the city is lost. It's like out of a Mad Max movie, or Dawn of the Dead – the...
