NPR has posted the unedited Sites video of the Fallujah mosque shooting, as well as an audio interview with Sites. The interview begins with a discussion of the reasons the US military declined to prosecute the Marine who shot the unarmed wounded Iraqi on tape. Four...

So? It's a week old. I missed it, maybe you did too. The Washington Times: House moves to raise U.S. debt ceilingWashington, DC, May. 3 (UPI) -- The U.S. House has sent legislation to the Senate that would raise the federal debt limit to nearly $9 trillion, a $781...

As soon as the final touches of translation are completed, Venezuela is to formally submit a request for the extradition of Luis Posada Carriles, accused (and pretty much known even by the CIA) of bombing a Cuban airliner in 1976, killing the 73 people on board. He is...

The idea of replacing the felled twin towers of the World Trade Center with a "Freedom Tower" -- the design of which seems, at least to this eye, self-consciously grandiose -- always was a bit ... overblown. Now we learn that the design originally approved by the city...

These guys should read this guy. (Hat tip: Scott Horton)

If we peel back the outer "democratic" skin of Ukraine's much-touted "Orange Revolution," we find the same old same old: the newly-installed regime of Viktor Yushchenko is pulling the license of independent television station NTN to expand beyond the Kiev area. NTN...

Here it's been close to a week since Israeli spy and former Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin was nabbed by the feds, and still not a peep out of the right-wing of the blogosphere. And these are the same people who want to set up their own news service? Well, I've got a...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Abu Jaafar pulls out one of the dozens of files piled on his desk and leafs through evidence that a Finance Ministry employee once served in Saddam Hussein's notorious intelligence agency. Snapping the file shut, he pronounces his verdict: "This...

Thanks to James Wolcott, over at Vanity Fair, for the plug about our fundraiser -- I have a taste for the kind of acerbic wit on display at his blog and I check it out daily. Also, thanks to Wally Conger over at Out of Step (a great name, btw): I didn't know we had...

President Mikhail Saakashvili of Georgia on the Yalta agreement, as recently repudiated by George W. Bush: "Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been there are totally...