In a 308-114 vote Tuesday the House of Representatives ignored a massive influx of new evidence underscoring the futility of the conflict in Afghanistan, approving a massive new appropriation of emergency war funding. The vote came just two days after the world was...
Obsession With Pakistan’s Tax System
Some of the chaos and bloodshed of everyday life on the streets of Mogadishu was visited on the Ugandan capital on Sunday night. As the bodies of innocents ripped apart while they watched the World Cup final are buried and the burnt remains are sifted there is a...
Asymmetrical Monkey Warfare to Challenge America's Dominance of Central Asia. When Senator Lindsey Graham was calling for the abandonment of the drawdown date for Afghanistan, saying "Gen. Petraeus needs to get this monkey off his back," he perhaps didn't realize how...
While Israel's military confiscated the vast majority of the video footage and photographic evidence of last week's attack on the Mavi Marmara, Iara Lee managed to smuggle roughly 15 minutes of never before seen footage out, which was released today. The video shows a...
A war-weary nation breathes a sign of relief today as the last of America's troops finally return home from Iraq, fulfilling President Obama's campaign pledge to have them out within 16 months of taking office. April Fools. In all seriousness, everyone who has been...
The Associated Press is running an article today entitled "UN powers back new sanctions against Iraq." Of course that is a typo, because the big story today is that the US is claiming support from the P5+1 for new sanctions against Iran. A typo, but there is a shred...
Britain's IISS (International Institute for Strategic Studies) warned in a report today that in four years Iran "could be able to target London" with missiles. The claim comes as Iran tested the Fajr-5 missile. Quick Math: Fajr-5's maximum range = 75 km Iran's best...
Interspersed between the US claims that they are virtually certain al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is living in Pakistan is the occasional wild theory about where the reclusive terrorist mastermind actually is. Today's theory comes by way of a documentary filmmaker...
Anwar al-Awlaki certainly makes for an interesting topic of conversation. The New Mexico-born cleric has not only spent the past few years as a vigorously outspoken critic of US foreign policy in the Middle East but has used the Internet quite successfully to get his...
