Those who remember recent history will not be surprised to learn that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been amassing files on the American Civil Liberties Union, Greenpeace, and other critics of the George W. Bush administration. Back in the 1960s and...
This week's agreement by U.S. President George W. Bush to sell advanced nuclear technology to India, coming three weeks after the signing of a 10-year bilateral defense agreement that makes New Delhi eligible to buy sophisticated U.S. military equipment, confirms a...
The investigation into who "outed" Valerie Plame, a CIA agent formerly engaged in deep-cover operations involving weapons of mass destruction, is now threatening to bring down some of the president's top advisers, including Karl Rove, the Machiavellian mastermind...
While to people living outside the Washington Beltway, the current affair over the disclosure by top White House officials of the identity of a covert intelligence officer may seem somewhat esoteric, the stakes could not be higher. It is not just that Karl Rove,...
LONDON - A leading Islamic scholar in Britain has asked for the Muslim community to come together to "reclaim Islam from terrorism." He made his call after the terrorist bomb blasts in London Underground trains and on a bus July 7 that killed 55 people and...
Moonie McCarthyism Why are you posting links from the World Peace Herald? Who are these folks anyway? A quick Google search reveals them to be a publication founded by Rev. Sun Myung Moon, who also founded the Washington Times, a neocon organ. Their "news" seems to be...
Direct responsibility for Thursday's terrorist outrages in London lies, of course, with those who planted the bombs. Ultimate responsibility is another matter. In the aftermath of the carnage – only one British MP, the rebel antiwar activist George Galloway, has...
Juan Cole, professor of Modern Middle East and South Asian History at the University of Michigan, has lived in the Middle East and is fluent in Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. His blog, Informed Comment, has earned its place at the top of the list for people interested in...
The significance of the Plame affair is not about former U.S. ambassador Joseph Wilson; or his wife, Valerie Plame; or Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby; or even President George W. Bush's alter ego, Karl Rove. White House...
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