Bravo, America. You Failed in Afghanistan.

Patrick Cockburn: The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100 billion a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all. A little over 10 years ago, I was standing on a small hill by a ruined...

The Three Faces of Jon Huntsman

Someone is playing games on Youtube, and they’ve managed to fool an awful lot of people – mostly “reporters” and bloggers who hate Ron Paul – into falling for one of the more transparent hoaxes of this election season. It all started with an incredibly stupid video...

‘Misguided and Extreme Views’ on Israel

Last week I noted in a post that according to “a report of the Secretary-General to the Security Council” the “so-called Gaza buffer zone imposed by Israel” – essentially anything close to 300 meters from the northern fence area –...