Sadly, it appears that the number of American troops killed in Afghanistan this past year have just about doubled the casualty rate of each of the preceding years. Troop deaths of other coalition members are also at their all time highest level. There are currently...

See lenin at the Tomb on the British Foreign Office's Cheney-esque  tactics in the attempted silencing of  former  UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray.  Particularly revolting are the Yoo-like legal contortions of one Michael Wood as he...

While we're on the subject of the NSA and intercepting international emails, I'm surprised how few people remember ECHELON. It's about five years old now, but the reports of the intercepts of global communications data were troubling enough to spark an investigation...

With all attention focused on the New York Times' expose of illegal wiretapping of Americans without the benefit of a court issued warrant, that story withheld for a year, it was not the first time that accusations have come up that the NSA was indeed illegally...

Remember how the justification for the US government's permanent blockade and eventual aggressive invasion of Iraq in 2003 was based on the idea that Saddam Hussein was in defiance of the cease fire agreement that ended his war with the United Nations in 1991? For the...

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Buried away toward the bottom of this news article are a few interesting paragraphs about the morale of at least one Iraqi Army battalion: Meanwhile, gunmen Friday attacked an Iraqi army checkpoint in the city of Adhaim, in religiously and ethnically mixed Diyala...

At the invitation of the Perdana Peace Foundation, Justin Raimondo and Eric Garris spent the week attending their Global Peace Forum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. We had a wonderful time and were treated royally by the staff and volunteers of the foundation and the other...

From the AP:BERLIN - The U.N.'s lead investigator in the inquiry into the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister said Wednesday he believes a spate of recent killings in the country are linked. "These are not isolated attacks," Detlev Mehlis told reporters...

I don't often agree with Democratic congressmen, but Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) had the right response after listening to Bush's December 14th speech on Iraq: "The President now says he is responsible for the war in Iraq. I agree with the President. He is...