The ‘Legal’ Torture of Jose Padilla

One Lie Or Another, War With Iran is Coming

In an upset, Polish voters elected a pro-business opposition party pledged to pull Polish troops out of Iraq this year.

Sharon Kelly of Human Rights First has been blogging the confirmation hearings for attorney general nominee Michael Mukasey. Check it out.

This week Ron Paul introduced the 'American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007' to roll back the power of the federal government by restoring support for the US Constitution. The bill would, among other things, repeal the Military Commissions Act of 2006, prohibits...

Visit Lobelog.com for the latest news analysis and commentary from Inter Press News Service's Washington bureau chief Jim Lobe. In a further indication of Robert Gates' efforts to move U.S. policy closer to the center a la Baker-Hamilton, he has appointed John Hamre,...

As I said here -- and, earlier, here -- the whole Syrian "nuclear" facility that the Israelis supposedly took out, in a faux-replay of the Osirak narrative, turned out to be a hoax: "According to current and former intelligence sources, the US intelligence community...

Follow the money, as the old saying goes: "The US arms industry is backing Hillary Clinton for President and has all but abandoned its traditional allies in the Republican party. Mrs Clinton has also emerged as Wall Street's favourite. Investment bankers have opened...

Even monkeys and apes are clever enough to use the threat of a common enemy as a way of reducing within-group tensions. Frans de Waal has seen wild baboons resolve a dispute by jointly threatening the members of another baboon troop, and chimpanzees in a zoo making...

Yes, Benito Giuliani's foreign policy team is very ... Halloweenish. In addition to Daniel "Ethinc Cleanser" Pipes, we have one Martin Kramer, as profiled by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: "'Academic colleagues, get used to it,' warned the pro-Israel activist Martin...