Last week, the Americans in Iraq stood on the brink of not one but three cliffs. Now, in what appears to be a sudden attack of sanity, they have pulled back from the edge of two. The first was the American threat to assault the holy Shiite city of Najaf in order to...
After two years of litigation, the U.S. Supreme Court is finally set to decide whether the executive branch of the US government may detain alleged "enemy combatants" indefinitely without any judicial review of their status. Three cases – one of them argued...
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Another blow has been dealt to the United States and its efforts to realign Iraq's oil industry after a series of attempted suicide boat bomb attacks on Saturday on the key oil facility at Khor al-Amaya and on four oil tankers waiting to load at the main Basra...
Ernest Hemingway once defined "sin" as "something you feel bad about, afterwards." On the evidence presented in Richard Clarke's "Against All Enemies," and in Bob Woodward's "Plan of Attack," Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet ought to have a terminal case...
A U.S. military helicopter flies over the municipal building in the predominantly Shia Baghdad neighborhood Kadamiya. A U.S. trained Iraqi soldier stands guard. The guard says he signed up in the new Iraqi Army to keep Baghdad safe from looters and thieves, but that...
The Price of Stability What you failed to comment on is why the Guangzhou provincial authorities are so determined to bring down the editors of the Southern Metropolitan Daily. Could it be the harsh penalties, like the routine use of public executions for bribery,...
Editor's Note: This is the first part of a speech given at the Libertarian Party of New York state convention, on April 24. The second part will appear on Friday. The neoconservative propagandists who tirelessly called for the invasion of Iraq, who agitated for it...
Americans, instead of acting like sheep, ought to start thinking of a peaceful world and how we might attain it. It is possible. The benefits of peace would be enormous. The conflict currently being used to sustain America's vast empire (more than 700 foreign military...
A new poll shows that as of mid-March, 57% of Americans believed that Saddam Hussein had given substantial support to al-Qaeda. Worse, 45% actually say that "clear evidence" has been found in Iraq to support this allegation! As for weapons of mass destruction 45...
