Lawrence of Cyberia writes: In case you're not sure what you're looking at in the first photograph, the white ribbon around the residential center of Qalqilya is Israel's Wall. The brown areas to the north and south of the town, and outside the wall, are where...
The Forward of August 27 has an interesting pairing of op-ed pieces. In the first, the Jewish weekly expresses its dismay re the Bush administration's approval of a new Israel settlement construction project. The approval comes at a time when Israel's attorney general...
As the death total in Iraq inches towards 1000, the Department of Defense press corps has started to work on weekends. DoD press releases have almost always been sent out on weekdays, presumably when the government is at "work." This weekend however, the DoD released...
Tikrit - A senior commander in the Iraqi national guard on Sunday insisted his officers had not captured Saddam Hussein's deputy Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri. "Our forces did not take part in any operation and did not capture Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri and we do not have any...
C. Lounsbury on the US military's discovery that people don't hate you as bad when they are accorded some respect and allowed to retain their dignity. Unfortunately, as one Iraqi points out, it's "too little, too late." When the US military will realize that bombs in...
U.S. Military Deaths in the Conquest of Iraq The URLs on the chart and the events indicated by dots on the line are hyperlinked - just click them.
A must see video: George W. Bush: Words Speak Louder than Actions First up under featured videos. See the battle between Dubya's words and facts and reality.
Glenn Reynolds demonstrates his grasp of economics (3rd graf) and his concern for American taxpayers.
My latest article on trial of Slobodan Milosevic was just posting as the news came from The Hague that the Inquisition decided to impose lawyers on the former Serbian president. The decision was immediately hailed by the prosecution and the ICTY partisans, and...
Former Iraqi Governing Council member Ahmed Chalabi (L) talks with a member of Iraq's interim parliament on the sidelines of the first meeting of Iraq's interim parliament in Baghdad, Sept. 1, 2004. Chalabi escaped from an assassination attempt, which left two of his...
