Last week, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) announced an upcoming Q&A session with Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki. IraqSlogger reports that today the CFR announced that, at Maliki's request, his comments cannot be reported by any media or repeated by any participant...
A few months ago I attended a conference in Las Vegas and saw copies of Liberty Watch magazine for the first time. I was impressed. I had seen their online articles linked from various libertarian websites, but I had no idea how well-produced the print magazine is....
Scott Adams really gets it! Thanks to Lew Rockwell.
IraqSlogger has gotten ahold of a "sensitive" but unclassified US report about corruption in the Iraqi government. IraqSlogger reports that the document was prepared by the US embassy in Baghdad and based on the work of Iraq's Commission for Public Integrity. They say...
According to the US and Israel, it does. In a rare vote, the UN General Assembly passed a UN atomic watchdog resolution calling on all Middle East nations to renounce atomic weapons. Since the US and the West have been pushing to stop nuclear proliferation in the...
The New York Times has announced that, effective midnight tonight, they will stop charging for access to various portions of their Website. Two years ago the Times made what turned out to be a stupid decision: they decided to start charging for their top columnists,...
According to the respected GlobalSecurity.org, there were only 21 nations with ground troops in Iraq as of February of this year. No countries have joined the list since then, and a couple of nations have all but withdrawn their contingents. In Bush's speech tonight,...
Over the next six weeks, John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government will be touring to promote their blockbuster book, The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy. Mearsheimer and Walt are...
Ron Paul gave the September 11 foreign policy address at the Johns Hopkins' Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. His talk was "A Traditional Non-Intervention Foreign Policy." CPFR director Robert Guttman and Andrew Ward, the...
Three weeks ago seven US soldiers in Iraq wrote an op-ed in the New York Times expressing grave doubts about the war. On Monday, Sgt. Omar Mora and Sgt. Yance T. Gray died in a vehicle accident in western Baghdad, two of seven U.S. troops killed in the incident which...
