Andrew J. Bacevich writes at Tomdispatch.com For well over a decade now the United States has been “a nation at war.” Does that war have […]

Herbicides and pesticides threaten to wipe out one third of amphibian species in the coming decades. A new study finds that frogs, toads and salamanders […]

Just a reminder that President Obama has not yet pardoned John Kiriakou, the CIA whistleblower who revealed the agency’s torture practices Kiriakou went to jail […]

Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid, leader of the centrist, secular Yesh Atid party, has threatened to withdraw from the government of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu […]

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Memorial Day began as a commemoration for the dead in the US Civil War, and especially for the Northern dead. Southern states for the most […]

Karbala, Iraq, doesn’t have enough good medical care. The number one killer is heart attacks, but a whole range of ailments are not being effectively […]

Listening to Newt Gingrich, the great bloviator, go on this morning on the alleged Muslim threat, set me off. Gingrich did his dissertation on Belgian […]

Four persons were wounded by GRAD rockets that fell in south-western Beirut, a Hizbullah stronghold, on Sunday. The strikes come a day after the head […]