by Jim Lobe | Oct 31, 2008 | News
After Georgetown University decided against renewing his contract, a brief stay as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and his efforts to get a post at the Brookings Institution came to naught, former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy...
by Jim Lobe | Jul 30, 2008 | News
If you don’t already know about it, the ongoing battle between Time magazine’s Joe Klein and the hard-line neo-conservatives at Commentary’s Contentions blog, as well as the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Abe Foxman (whose recent silence on the issue suggests...
by Jason Ditz | Jun 14, 2008 | al-Qaeda, Iraq, War on Terror
Any given day in Iraq includes a distressingly long list of casualties, but what about the stories behind those incidents? Here’s one from today which I thought warranted some expounding on: Under the headline Terrorist hideout destroyed, a military press...
by L. Reichard White | May 3, 2008 | al-Qaeda, Culture, George W. Bush, Intervention, Iraq, Middle East, News, War crimes, War party
Marc Garlasco helped target laser-guided bombs during the Iraq invasion, and he claims in an NPR interview entitled “Assessing the Human Cost of Air Strikes in Iraq,” that the military does a careful calculation of how many innocent civilians will be...
by Jeremy Sapienza | Apr 7, 2008 | Antiwar movement, Iraq, Sudan/Darfur, Tibet
In New York, you cannot ride a subway without being bombarded with posters about Darfur and now, Tibet. Of course I have sympathy for those killed and displaced in Darfur, though the numbers have been overblown and other specifics of the situation have been...
