"What does that rude term [chickensh*t] signify? It does not imply complaint about the inevitable inconveniences of military life: overcrowding and lack of privacy, tedious institutional cookery, deprivation of personality, general boredom. Nothing much can be done...
We're on the list of top 50 news websites – and, if we don't make a success of our quarterly fundraising drive, we're practically down to our last dime. It's really kind of funny, if you think about it. I mean, here we are – three guys and as many computers...
With the announcement by India's ruling coalition that it will ask for the dissolution of the Lower House of Parliament on Feb. 6, the country is all set for national elections to get underway probably five months before the term of the House ends. By all indications,...
Turkish Daily News ANKARA - U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz made important gestures to Turkey on Thursday in an interview with private CNN- Turk TV channel, soothing Turkish fears over PKK existence and Iraqi Kurdish leader's ethnicity-based federation...
A recent study by a Chinese Academy of Social Sciences claims the emerging Chinese middle class is a myth. All those interviewed who believe they are middle class, are actually deluding themselves or lying. Or are being lied to. A concurrent stream of research by the...
If I had a choice of catching 1,000 feral cats or bringing democracy to Iraq, I'd take the cat job in a New York second. The Shiites want immediate elections; the Sunnis have just organized themselves and oppose immediate elections. The Kurds want autonomy, but the...
If U.S. President George W. Bush believed that aligning US policies more closely to those of the right-wing Likud government headed by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon would win him more votes from Jewish Americans, he should think again. That is the message of a...
At Antiwar.com – we get results. When Richard Perle, high-visibility neocon and co-author of a recent book that faults the Bush administration for being soft on terrorism, spoke at a rally associated with the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), an Iranian terrorist group...
One of the deadliest illusions persistent among the American public is the belief that Empire's foreign policy is partisan by nature. Thus much of the opposition to American legions enforcing "liberty" in Iraq is aimed at Bush the Republican, just as feeble opposition...
The Canadian government has ordered a public inquiry into the role of intelligence agents in the arrest and deportation of a man who was seized by U.S. authorities while he changed planes in New York City and sent to a Syrian prison. Maher Arar, a native Syrian with...
