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McCain & Letterman; What about Liddy? Al E. Smith and the Candidates
John McCain returns to David Letterman’s Late Show in an attempt to redeem himself after his erratic behavior and earlier cancellation. It is the oddest […]
Losing Afghanistan after Winning It
Nir Rosen reports on ‘How we lost the War We Won’ in Afghanistan: ‘ Until recently, Ghazni, like much of central Afghanistan, was considered reasonably […]
Game Over: A Good Neighbor in the Gulf?
The third and final debate again went to Obama in the instant polls done by organizations such as CNN. Independents told CNN they generally thought […]
The Great Reagan Pyramid Scheme Comes Crashing Down
The Republican Party that Nixon invented melded the moneyed classes of the Northeast with the white evangelicals of the South. This odd couple went on […]
NIE: Pakistan on Brink
The new National Intelligence Estimate on Pakistan will apparently depict that country as ‘on the edge,’ with ‘no money, no energy, no government.’ The fear […]
Church Bombed in Mosul; Christian Leaders Protest Gov’t Unconcern; Sadrists Show Support for Christians
A church in the northern metropolis of was bombed in Mosul on Tuesday, as Christian leaders accused the government of PM Nuri al-Maliki of minimizing […]
Daughter of Mossad Chief Jailed for being a Conscientious Objector
Omer Goldman, daughter of a former head of the Israeli intelligence organization, Mossad, has gone to jail as a conscientious objector. She visited the West […]
Hashimi: Security Agreement in Doubt; UN Worries about Iraqi Christians; Physicians Close Clinics in Karbala
The UN is concerned about the continued flight of Christians from the northern metropolis of Mosul. Sunni radicals are targeting them and several have been […]
Guantanamo Counsel Resigns in Disgust
Lt. Col. Darrel J. Vandeveld resigned from the military commissions tribunals at Guantanamo convinced that the system denies defense attorneys exculpatory evidence that the government […]