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Short Shots



Goldstone Report to UN calls for investigation of Israel and Hamas for war crimes

Although it appears obvious that both Israel and Hamas targeted civilians, Israel says report is biased. US will block any investigation when it gets to security council.

Pakistan under attack

The Taliban strike the heart of Pakistan in five attacks killing 40 people as Pakistan prepares for a military assault on Taliban strongholds.

Weapons for Georgia

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili urged the United States on Tuesday to supply his country with advanced defensive weapons, warning on the eve of a visit by Vice President Biden that a decision not to provide such arms would encourage a Russian invasion. More

Obama Offers Russia Deal on Iran in Secret Letter

President Obama sent a secret letter to Russia’s president last month suggesting that he would back off deploying a new missile defense system in Eastern Europe if Moscow would help stop Iran from developing long-range weapons, American officials said Monday. More

Case of voter intimidation dropped

The DOJ dropped a case against three Black Panthers for voter intimidation during the 2008 presidential elections. The three stood outside a voting station dressed in black wearing black berets. One carried a stick which he hit into one of his hands. More
 
Obama incites racial tensions

Obama automatically concluded without the facts that Gates was a victim of racism and that the police "acted stupidly." This is racism. Snap judgments based upon color. More

Rising casualties raise doubts abroad on war

Rising casualties in Afghanistan are raising doubts among U.S. allies about the conduct of the war, forcing some governments to defend publicly their commitments and foreshadowing possible long-term trouble for the U.S. effort to bring in more resources to defeat the Taliban. More.
 
Protests Continue in Iran

Three weeks after the Iranian elections protest continue despite Iranian crackdowns

Speed Bumps Hit Gitmo Closing

It is easier said than done. Trial, threat, and relocation issues plaque Obama in closing Gauntanamo Bay detention camp.

Barack Obama's World

Barack Obama's arrival on the world stage has been more than the entry of a young, popular president who offers a new and more generous spirit in America foreign policy. Almost everywhere he has gone - from Berlin to Cairo, from London to Accra - he has been treated almost as a young god, sent to redeem a wicked and a suffering world. More

Netanyahu Defends Israel's Sovereignty

Prime Minister rebuffs U.S. opposition to Israeli construction in a mostly Palestinian area, says Jews have right to live "in all parts of Jerusalem." More

Obama at NAACP: "the pain of discrimination is still felt in America

Obama was the first black president to ever speak before the NAACP. (obviously). In one of Obama's most passionate speeches  he place special emphasis on racism in America.

Confirmation Hearings Begin for Judge Sonia Sotomayor

Confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor begin on July 13th with opening statements by members of the Senate Judiciary Cmte. and introductions of Judge Sotomayor by New York Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand. More

Excuses are not results

Making good on campaign promises may prove more difficult for Obama that making them. So far, a lot of excuses. It's to early, we had incomplete information, it's someone else's fault, etc., are not results. The patience of the American people is limited.
 
Obama on World Tour

Like a man running for president of the world Barack Obama storms the globe delivering his patented version of hope with his notable charisma and as master of a special inspirational brew. Yet, many American's now question whether he is just another promise anything politician who doesn't deliver. The world may be in for a big let down. 

Iraq secures cities for US exit

The US still has about 133,000 troops in Iraq

The Iraqi authorities are tightening security in preparation for next Tuesday's deadline for US soldiers to pull out of the country's cities.

All police leave has been cancelled and extra troops have been drafted in, amid a spate of bomb attacks this week which has left 250 people dead. More

Let them have water in Gaza

Israeli bombing of Gaza infrastructure creates crisis of clean water shortage. More

Leahy Wants Probe of Bush

Senator Patrick Leahy (D) wants committee to investigate the Bush administration on taking the U.S. into Iraq. Obama wants to look forward not backward, but, says people must be accountable for crimes.

ACORN's Stimulus

With a new president ensconced in the White House, it's time to roll out the goodies for loyal supporters in left-of-center political advocacy groups such as ACORN. More


Rebuilding Gaza a Political Minefield

With much of Gaza lying in ruin, the international community faces both physical and political challenges in the daunting task of its rebuilding. More

Obama: Tough decisions on Iraq, Afghanistan loom

Emerging from his first Pentagon briefing as president, Barack Obama said Wednesday that his administration faces "difficult decisions" about Iraq and Afghanistan. But the new commander in chief offered no further details about his plans as the U.S. carries on wars in both countries. More

Violence flares in Iraq ahead of elections

A string of politically-targeted attacks took place on Tuesday across Iraq, as the country gears up for provincial council elections on January. More

Rove Subpoenaed

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) subpoenaed former White House senior adviser Karl Rove, a sign that Democrats are not letting go of investigations the Bush administration stonewalled. More

Why not Afghanistan "once again"?

Very few are questioning whether 30,000 more troops should be added in Afghanistan. Someone should.

Barrack Obama is Now President of the United States

Amidst elation not seen in decades, if ever, Barrack Obama, was sworn in as President of the United States "twice" due to miscues between he and Chief Justice Roberts during the original ceremony on January 20th.

Palestine Attempts to Rebuild after 22 days of Bombing by Israel

It is estimated that the damages done to Palestinian infrastructure amounts to approximately 2 billion dollars. Saudi Arabia has already  donated 1 billon dollars and others will help. The reconstruction, under normal circumstances would take about 5 years. However, Israel intends to make it difficult blocking the import of construction materials and conducting inspections in the name of security.

Obama: "I won"

In a bipartisan meeting this week concerning the stimulus bill, when others expressed their ideas, Obama let the dissenters know: "I won." Obama staffers have been reminding those on the Hill that he won and is very popular. Some think the "I won" statement is tantamount to Bush saying he was "the decider."

Will Obama Push for Missiles in Poland?

A thorn in the side of Russia and American foreign policy, if it is to change, it the Bush administrations agreement to put missiles in Poland. Russia has reacted adversely and Secretary of Defense Gates has in essence given them the finger. As Russia moves a ship into a Cuban harbor and plays naval games off the coast of Venezuela, will Obama reinforce what some call a bad move.

Afghanistan will last longer than Vietnam

The newly-appointed US special envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, has said that the Obama administration had to face many tough challenges with regard to the war in Afghanistan and global peace but the toughest was the insurgent sanctuaries in the tribal areas of Pakistan.
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Thoughts to Consider

Decisions should be based upon reason and reason upon evidence. Evidence must go beyond mere accusation. Otherwise, our fears become proof. More

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Featured Articles

Uncle Sam in Afghanistan: Good Help Is Hard to Find

By Norman Solomon

Almost eight years after choosing Hamid Karzai to head the Afghan government, Uncle Sam would like to give him a pink slip. But it’s not easy.

And the grim fiasco of Afghanistan’s last election is shadowing the next.
 
Another display of electioneering and voting has been ordered up from Washington. But after a chemical mix has blown a hole through the roof -- with all the elements for massive fraud still in place -- what’s the point of throwing together the same ingredients?
Full Article>>

Obama's "Iran First" Policy

By D. Lindley Young

WASHINGTON, D.C. (TMT) (10/20)  -   In the 2008 Presidential campaign Barack Obama sold peace in one hand and war in the other. It has now become clear that Obama held out the peace for all to see in the light of day while he prepared for wars in what some would call the shadows. The Obama kabuki dance is heading towards an historic finish – war with Iran sometime next summer. Full Article >>

Presidential Power Grows

Will You Love Every Future President?
By David Swanson

Presidential power has been on a pathway of expansion beyond what the Constitution outlined, and what a government of, by, and for the people requires, since George Washington was president. That expansion, which hit the highway after World War II, got a turbo boost during the co-presidency of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.

Some of the new powers that those two stole from Congress, the courts, the states, and us the people are being abused less severely in this new age of Obama; others, more so; but far more crucially, in a pattern followed by recent presidencies, all are being maintained, if not expanded, and thus more firmly cemented into place for future presidents to use. Wherever you fall on the political spectrum, you are likely to strongly oppose some major decisions of some future presidents. So it shouldn't be hard to envision some pretty undesirable consequences that might flow from presidential power that increasingly approaches the absolute. Full Article >>

The Lie of the Century - The spin for War with Iran

By D. Lindley Young

WASHINGTON, D.C. (TMT) (9/28) - The question. How may times do you have to tell a lie before it becomes the truth? Answer. A lie never becomes the truth no matter how many times it is told.

The media and politicians, especially Netanyahu, keep saying that Iranian President Ahmadinejad has said "he" will "wipe Israel off the map." This a a lie no matter how many times it is said.

At a seminar on a world without Zionism, not without Jews, but, without the cult that believes that Palestine has no right to exist because of Isreali biblical claims to the land on which Israel and Palestine exist.

The seminar took place before the word "zionist' was redefined to mean the Jewist identity. At the time of Ahmadinejad's speech at the seminar "A World without Zionism," it meant those Jews that made biblical claims to Palestine. So, it could be said that the issue was then picturing a "world in which people did not refuse to recognize Palestine's right to exist."

In any event, Ahmadinejad quoted from the Ayatollah Khemeni and, depending upon the interpretation, said, quoting Ayatollah Khemeni as saying he hoped Israel would "vanish" or "collapse." Ahmadinejad did not say "he" was going to "wipe Israel off the map."

There is a world of difference from Ahmadinejad quoted from the Ayatollah Khemeni and the lie being told that Ahmadinejad said "he" would "wipe Israel off the wipe."

Juan Cole, President of the Global Americana Institute, put it this way :

"It was apparently some Western wire service that mistranslated the phrase as 'wipe Israel off the map', which sounds rather more violent than calling for regime change. Since then, Iranian media working in English have themselves depended on that translation. One of the tricks of Right-Zionist propagandists is to substitute these English texts for Ahmadinejad's own Persian text."

Cole continued, "What is really going on here is an old trick of the warmongers. Which is that you equate hurtful statements of your enemy with an actual military threat, and make a weak and vulnerable enemy look like a strong, menacing foe. Then no one can complain when you pounce on the enemy and reduce his country to flames and rubble."

"It is obvious that powerful political forces in Washington are fishing for a pretext to launch a war on Iran, and that they are just delighted to have Ahmadinejad as cartoon villain and pretext."

See full article: http://www.juancole.com/2007/06/ahmadinejad-i-am-not-anti-semitic.html

Arash Norouzi wrote 'Wiped off the Map' – The Rumor of the Century." See http://www.antiwar.com/orig/norouzi.php?articleid=11025

"Amid heated wrangling over Iran's nuclear program, and months of continuous, unfounded accusations against Iran in an attempt to rally support for preemptive strikes against the country, the imperialists had just been handed the perfect raison d'ętre to invade. To the war hawks, it was a gift from the skies."

Even if every media outlet in the world were to retract the mistranslated quote tomorrow, the major damage has already been done, providing the groundwork for the next phase of disinformation: complete character demonization. But, if war is the goal, join in. Our politicians and the media know the truth, but, are helping those who are lying our way into war with Iran

"But, if war is the goal, join in. Our politicians and the media know the truth, but, are helping those who are lying our way into war with Iran."

There are other articles, if the truth matters to you. See: http://goatmilk.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/israel-wiped-off-the-map-lost-in-translation  Also, listen to Salute America at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/saluteamerica

Iran in arms race with Israel

Iran is one of the world's most significant nations in terms of history, culture and intellectual capacity, and is matched in the Middle East perhaps only by Israel.

It is a small wonder, then, that when Iran's hard-line and irascible president talks of building military capability and destroying Israel, Tel Aviv feels its survival is menaced and that Tehran's regime is its nemesis.

For all of its 61 years in existence, Israel has considered itself in a permanent war of survival. It has developed a national system which places great emphasis on its military and intelligence capabilities.

Starting from scratch, Israel has developed technologies which are truly world-leading, especially in the delivery of shock and awe on any potential enemy. Full Article>>

The Incredible Shrinking Healthcare Reform

By Norman Solomon
 
Like soap in a rainstorm, “healthcare reform” is wasting away.
 
As August began, a leading follower of conventional wisdom, journalist Cokie Roberts, told NPR listeners: “This is evolving legislation. And the administration is now talking about a glide path towards universal coverage, rather than immediate universal coverage.”
 
Notions of universal healthcare are fading in the power centers of politics -- while more and more attention focuses on the care and feeding of the insurance industry. Full Article>>

Salting the Race Issue and Defending Professor Gates

By D. Lindley Young

WASHINGTON, D.C. (TMT) (7/23)- Barack Obama doesn’t miss an opportunity to make race an issue.

Lynn Sweet, a Sun-Times columnist, ask about Obama about the arrest of noted Harvard African-American studies Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his home during a press conference on health care.

Sweet asked, "What does that incident say to you? And what does it say about race relations in America?" Full Article>>

The Risks of a Partial Prosecution

By David Swanson

If Attorney General Eric Holder creates a special prosecutor for torture but forbids him or her to prosecute the lawyers who facilitated torture or the top officials who ordered it, proposing to go after only torturers who exceeded the limitations outlined in the lawyers' memos, what are the risks? Full Article>>

When Transparency is Blinding

By D. Lindley Young

WASHINGTON, D.C. (7/22) - Is there a point where a promised transparency and the so-called commitment open, honest truth in government and to an informed public, actually is the flash in the eyes which blinds us to the truth? Yes. When we trust someone that is a flim-flam man - who is just another same ole politician we tried to get rid of - says he is committed to transparency. If it is like other Obama promises, it means very little. He will pretend to be transparent with one hand while hiding his actions with the other. Only time will tell. Full Article>>  

Afghan Massacre: More Bad Apples?

By William Fisher

A prominent human rights group is calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate why the administration of former President George W. Bush blocked three different probes into war crimes in Afghanistan where as many as 2,000 surrendered Taliban fighters were reportedly suffocated in container trucks and then buried in a mass grave by Afghan forces operating jointly with American forces. Full Article>>

The deceitful promises of Barack Obama

By D. Lindley Young

WASHINGTON, D.C. (7/21) - Deceit is what we call promises one makes which they never intend to perform them. It's hard to prove since it deals with a persons state of mind - what they were thinking - whether they ever intended to do what they promised.

The way deceit is proved is by circumstantial evidence. And generally that proof rests in the failure to do what was promised. If this is enough, a failure to do what you promised, then, at least on the "change," particularly on foreign policy, Obama is guilty of deceit. But, maybe some, the true believers, want more. Here's part of the case.  Full Article>>

Sotomayor Poised Amid Senatorial Jousting

By William Fisher


NEW YORK, Jul 14 (IPS) - Tuesday, the first full day of questions from members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee considering the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, was remarkable mainly for the softball questions asked by her Democratic supporters and the snarky, "gotcha" questions posed by her Republican opponents. 
Full Article>>

Looking Back to Protect the Future

By D. Lindley Young

WASHINGTON, D.C. (TMT) (7/11) - The Republicans tout the rule of law as their moral banner, but, now argue that it should not be applied to George W. Bush because we need to look to the future. This is, as the saying goes: complete baloney.

It is the height of hypocrisy to argue we should not look back at the Bush administration's war crimes, FISA violations, disregard for the War Powers Act of 1973, the National Security Act of 1947, constitutional violations, and other high crimes and misdemeanors, if they really believe that rule of law is important, or that it matters at all. Full Article>>

Escalation Scam: Troops in Afghanistan
 

By Norman Solomon
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. (6/10) - The president has set a limit on the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. For now.
 
That’s how escalation works. Ceilings become floors. Gradually.
 
A few times since last fall, the Obama team has floated rising numbers for how many additional U.S. soldiers will be sent to Afghanistan. Now, deployment of 21,000 more is a done deal, with a new total cap of 68,000 U.S. troops in that country. Full Article>>

Afghan Prisoners at U.S. Airbase in Legal Limbo

By William Fisher

NEW YORK, Jul 8 (IPS) - Following a loss in federal court, the organisation representing detainees held by the U.S. without charge at Bagram prison in Afghanistan called on the Barack Obama administration to "reverse the flawed policies of the previous Bush White House" and end the indefinite detention without trial of Afghan civilians held in U.S. custody. Full Article>>

Reading the Rules of Disengagement

By David Swanson

Should soldiers follow illegal orders? Should they take part in illegal wars and occupations? And if they don't want to do so, what choices do they have? And what can we do to help them? These are some of the questions addressed in a new book by Marjorie Cohn and Kathleen Gilberd called "Rules of Disengagement: The Politics and Honor of Military Dissent."
Full Article>>                   

One Sided is one sided, no matter what side you are on.

By D. Lindley Young

WASHINGTON, D.C. (TMT) (6/28) - US President Barack Obama is taking fire from all sides on his position, or some would say lack of it, on Iran. Some say he hasn’t done enough and others say he has done too much: the US is meddling.  Full Article >>

Torture Photos Already Released

A little over three years ago, SBS Dateline, an Australian television program, released leaked photographs from the U.S. prison in Iraq, Abu Ghraib. It is believed that the pictures being held back by the Obama administration may include some of these shots that most of the US press ignored, although RAW STORY ran them in 2006. Full Article >>

Why Are We Still at War?
 
By Norman Solomon

The United States began its war in Afghanistan 88 months ago. “The war on terror” has no sunset clause. As a perpetual emotion machine, it offers to avenge what can never heal and to fix grief that is irreparable.
 
For the crimes against humanity committed on Sept. 11, 2001, countless others are to follow, with huge conceits about technological “sophistication” and moral superiority. But if we scrape away the concrete of media truisms, we may reach substrata where some poets have dug. Full Article >>

Will War Ever End?

By David Swanson

I wrote recently about the
possibility of out growing the use of war.  Today I got a in the mail that makes a strong argument intended as a tool for ending war.  The book is called "Will War Ever End: A Soldier's Vision of Peace for the 21st Century" by Captain Paul K. Chappell, U.S. Army.  It's short, more of a hardcover pamphlet than a book, but it is packed with ideas.
Full Article >>

Mullen: Using force against Iran still an option

By Hilary Krieger

JERUSALEM (1/29) American military force against Iran remains an option, though it would be a "last resort," US Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in response to a question from The Jerusalem Post Tuesday.

Mullen emphasized, however, the importance he placed on engagement with the Islamic Republic, particularly when it came to Afghanistan, at the same time that he called for stricter UN resolutions to block Iran's weapons smuggling abilities.

In a rare press conference with the foreign media Tuesday, he alluded to a recent US interception of a ship sailing under a Cypriot flag with weapons that America believed had come from Iran and were heading toward Syria, "where we think they will get in the next day or so." Full Article >>

Russia Offers Obama Olive Branch on Missiles: Report

By Reuters

Russia has halted a plan to retaliate against a proposed U.S. missile defense shield by stationing its own missiles near Europe's borders, a Russian news agency quoted the military as saying on Wednesday.

The suspension of plans to deploy tactical missiles in the Western outpost of Kaliningrad, if confirmed, would show Russia is extending an olive branch to President Barack Obama after rocky relations under his predecessor. Full Article >>

A Bibi-Barack Collision?

By Patrick J. Buchanan
 

WASHINGTON, D.C. (1/2) - "There there is no solution, there is no problem," geostrategist James Burnham once wryly observed.
Ex-Sen. George Mitchell, the latest U.S. negotiator to take up the Palestine portfolio, may discover what it was that Burnham meant. For Israel's three-week war on Gaza, where Palestinians died at a rate of 100 to one to Israelis, appears to have been, like Israel's wars in Lebanon, another Pyrrhic victory for the Jewish state.
Full Article >>

Is Egypt Listening?

By William Fisher

NEW YORK (1/27) - You may have missed it because it was ignored by virtually the entire the American mainstream press, but there's a really creepy irony that accompanied President Obama's decision to close Guantanamo and end torture, secret prisons and extraordinary rendition. The irony is that some of the most lavish praise for Obama came from the press in countries that most of us would find, what shall we say, paradoxical. Countries that for many years have been the poster boys for unlawful detention, torture, secret prisons and "disappeared" prisoners. Countries in a part of the world that has been a consistent destination for those rendered by our CIA. Full Article >>

44 Years Later, LBJ’s Ghost Hovers Over the 44th President
 
By Norman Solomon
 
SAN FRANCISCO (1/26) - A few days after the inauguration, in a piece celebrating the arrival of the Obama administration, New York Times columnist Bob Herbert wrote that the new president has clearly signaled: “No more crazy wars.” Full Article >>

Dangerous Executive Orders

By David Swanson
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. (1/24) - The Center for Constitutional Rights has expressed concern that President Obama's executive order banning torture may contain a loophole. But no president has any right to declare torture legal or illegal, with or without loopholes. And if we accept that presidents have such powers, even if our new president does good with them, then  loopholes will be the least of our worries. Full Article >>

Muslim World Hails End of a Despised Symbol

By William Fisher

NEW YORK, (1/26)  - While the decision of President Barack Obama to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay Cuba, and end the practice of interrogation techniques that violate international law, made front page news throughout the United States, press reaction in the Middle East was far less extensive - but generally favourable. Full Article >>

Prosecute George W. Bush for Illegal Acts

By Ivan Eland
 

The Obama administration is reluctant to turn over too many rocks in the Bush administration's conduct in the War on Terror.  Obama has pledged to reach a post-partisan nirvana, and Republicans could condemn any investigation of Bush administration abuse of the republic as a partisan witch-hunt.  Also, the Obama administration has a conflict of interest in pursuing investigations and prosecutions against Bush administration officials because now that Obama is president, he may not want to entirely discredit Bush's precedents, which significantly expanded executive powers.   Full Article >>

We are ready to lead once again.

By D. Lindley Young

WASHINGTON, D.C. (1/24) - In a workmanlike manner President Barrack Hussein Obama  delivered his acceptance speech on January 20th in one of the most watched events in the history of television and at the most expensive inaugural ever. His mission was to appear presidential, display confidence, set a general tone for the direction he intends to take America, and make clear that there would be change on eight years of Bush policies. Most would agree he did this. Full Article >>

Afghan roadside bombs hit record in 2008

By Tom Vanden Brook

WASHINGTON — Roadside bomb attacks against coalition forces in Afghanistan hit an all-time high last year, killing more troops than ever and highlighting an "emboldened" insurgency there, according to figures released by the Pentagon. Full Article >>

Revisiting: Accountability for an illegal war?

By D. Lindley Young
Reprint of TMT 2005 Article

WASHINGTON, D.C. (1/14) After the White House confirmed Wednesday that the Iraq Survey Group headed by Charles Duelfer had halted any further search for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons in Iraq, some are calling for answers. This week, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D - California) said, “Now that the search is finished, President Bush needs to explain to the American people why he was so wrong, for so long, about the reasons for war." Full Article >>

Revisiting: Above the Law or Beyond its Reach?

By D. Lindley Young
Reprint of TMT 2005 Article


George W. Bush plotted with others starting as early as 1998 to go to war with Iraq as part of a strategy to dominant the Middle East and its oil, to dominant cyberspace, to dominant space and to keep the United States as the world's sole superpower by repressing all challengers by any means necessary including illegal and unlawful actions and false and misleading statements. Knowing their mission, George W. Bush joined with Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, I Lewis Libby, John Bolton, Jeb Bush, Elliot Abrams and others made a written plan to deliberately, willfully, wantonly and recklessly violate United States statutory law and international law by promoting, causing, commencing and justifying  a war on Iraq that he and all involved knew was clearly illegal.
Full Article >>


Dick Cheney has publicly confessed to ordering war crimes. Asked about waterboarding in an ABC News interview, Cheney replied, “I was aware of the program, certainly, and involved in helping get the process cleared.” He also said he still believes waterboarding was an appropriate method to use on terrorism suspects. CIA Director Michael Hayden confirmed that the agency waterboarded three Al  Qaeda suspects in 2002 and 2003.

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Israel Could Strike Iran Before End of Year

Russia S-300 Sale to Iran

New Poll: Most Americans Oppose Both Wars

Taliban video shows captured U.S. soldier

Israeli Soldiers Admit Using Human Shields

US Battles for Control of Helmand, Afghanistan

See Inspector General's report on Bush surveillance

Cheney 'ordered CIA to hide plan'

Challenges loom as Obama seeks space weapons ban

Obama goes to bat for Bush wiretap program

Obama versus Bush on the weaponization of space reveals no change

What is Obama's Rendition Policy

West may be Offering to Endorse Israeli Attack on Iran as Part of Settlement Deal

Obama approves sale of Weapons to Taiwan

Bush: Above the Law or Beyond its Reach?

Amicus Brief on Bush violation of War Powers Act of 1973 - Iraq posed no "imminent threat."

CIA Fights Full Release Of Detainee Report

Obama speaks of hopes for Africa

America threatens Russia with plans for missiles in Poland

US launches Helmand offensive against Taliban

Israeli navy arrests passengers on Free Gaza Movement boat

Barack Obama: US prepared for North Korea threats

Turning point for Iran?

N. Korea threatens to harm U.S. if attacked


Iran pledges a 'crushing' response to US critiques

Ahmadinejad pledges 'crushing' response if Obama continues criticism of postelection crackdown. More

Obama contemplates Executive Order for detention without charges

When Obama first unveiled his "preventive detention" policy, many defenders praised him (and claimed he was different than Bush) because of his vow that -- as he put it -- "my Administration will work with Congress to develop an appropriate legal regime."  But now,....  More

Obama Says Failing to Act Could Lead to a ‘Catastrophe’

President Obama took his case for his $800 billion economic recovery package to the American people on Monday, as the Senate cleared the way for passage of the bill and the White House prepared for its next major hurdle: selling Congress and the public on a fresh plan to bail out the nation’s banks. More

Iraqis vote. New Era?

Iraqis across the country voted Saturday in provincial elections that will help shape their future, but regardless of the outcome it is clear that the Americans are already drifting offstage — and that most Iraqis are ready to see them go. More

17k More US Troops to Afghanistan

Testifying on Capitol Hill today,  Defense Secretary Robert Gates told the Senate Armed Services Committee that there is little doubt that Aghanistan is the greatest military challenge for the US right now. More

Iraq Bans Blackwater

The Iraqi government has informed the US embassy today that it will decline to renew Blackwater Worldwide’s license to operate in the nation. This will require the security contractors, still being used by the State Department, to leave the nation once the joint US-Iraq committee finishes drawing up its formal guidelines for contractors. More

China: US arms sales to Taiwan 'harm' to relations

China made a rare appeal for cooperation between its normally secretive military and Washington on Tuesday but said U.S. arms sales to Taiwan remain a "serious harm to Sino-U.S. relations."

The statements came as China issued a major policy paper on national defense that said blocking formal Taiwanese independence remains the chief concern for one of the world's fastest-growing armed forces. More

Egypt to Hamas: Take Gaza Truce Before Likud Takes Over in Israel

The Egyptian government is reportedly pressing Hamas to hurry up and agree to a ceasefire with Israel’s outgoing Kadima-led government before next month’s elections. Several terms are yet to be agreed upon by both sides, but they have maintained a ceasefire for over a week and negotiations continue. More

Netanyahu:
Settlements
would grow

Front-runner in Israel's upcoming election says he'd expand Jewish West Bank settlements if he's elected premier, threatening to put him at odds with the Obama administration. More

Senate confirms Geithner as Secretary of Treasury

The Senate voted today to confirm Tim Geithner as the next treasury secretary amid ongoing uncertainty about the nation's economic future. Geithner, who will spearhead President Obama's response to the financial crisis that threatens to unravel economic growth around the globe, won approval by a vote of 60 to 34. More

U.S. missiles "don't help" Pakistan war effort

U.S missile attacks on Islamist militants in Pakistan do not help its efforts in the U.S.-led campaign against militancy, a spokesman for President Asif Ali Zardari said on Sunday. More

Obama’s Stance on Gaza Crisis “Approximately the Bush Position”

In a visit to the State Department Thursday, President Obama made his first substantive comments on the Middle East conflict since Israel’s attack on Gaza. More

Pakistan urges Obama to halt missile attacks

Pakistan urged President Barack Obama to halt U.S. missile strikes on al-Qaida strongholds near the Afghan border, saying Saturday that civilians were killed the previous day in the first attacks since Obama's inauguration. More

A shameful war: Israel in the dock over assault on Gaza

By the time the shooting stopped, more than 100 Palestinians had been killed for every Israeli who died. More

Issue of terrorists' rights to test Obama's pledge

President Barack Obama's pledge of bipartisan cooperation with Congress will be tested as he tries to fulfill a campaign promise to close Guantanamo Bay and establish a new system for prosecuting suspected terrorists.  More