Kudos to The Army Times: Their Photos Tell the Story, by Jimmy Breslin The Army Times, a civilian newspaper that is sold mainly on military bases and thus reaches the prime wartime audience, uses eight pages of its year-end review, out now, to run photos of all those...
...who doesn't march to the beat of the Pentagon's drummer. It is alarming enough that much of the media have voluntarily fallen into lockstep with the Administration, but not content with that, they now want to silence the remainder who refuse to compromise their...
As if the religious cauldron wasn't already simmering in Iraq, add Bible Belt Missionaries Set Out on a 'War for Souls' American Christian missionaries have declared a "war for souls" in Iraq, telling supporters that the formal end of the US-led occupation next June...
Many American troops serving in Iraq have fallen victim to what has been diagnosed by the Pentagon as leishmaniasis, an endemic parasitic skin afflication caused by biting flies. Iraqis have also been beset with skin afflictions since the war started, but these have...
Apparently, the Pentagon's recruitment goals are not being reached, contrary to assurances that there has not been a marked decline in new sign-ups. Looking further afield has become the current recruitment policy for Uncle Sam Wants You, Eh? "As Bush was ramping up...
Just when I was beginning to believe that the outing of an undercover CIA agent for political revenge was going to slip from memory without any heads rolling, apparently there are some who haven't forgotten and are putting the pressure back onto the Administration....
Light blogging this week—sorry—but this story was too good to pass up. I guess the Israeli government has run out of Peruvian Native Americans to import for demographic padding, because now they’re shipping in “lost tribes” from India. "This is my land," said Mr....
Has it really been more than two years since the anthrax attacks -- and still no one arrested? Hard to believe! We've managed to bag Saddam, who never did anything to us. But Ashcroft, Ridge and untold billions of tax dollars later there are still no arrests, still no...
The mixed feelings on the Arab street to the capture of Saddam Hussein is the subject of this article by Kamel Labidi, a journalist in Cairo who wrote his observations for THE DAILY STAR, the English language newspaper of Lebanon. Egypt and its varied reactions to a...
It is especially at the holidays that the casualties of war, all wars, lean so heavily on our hearts. After my father died in Korea, I don't think we ever had a genuinely happy Christmas again. Sure the tree was decorated, the gifts tumbled in heaps under it, cookies...
