Al-Libi Captured The capture of Abu Faraj al-Libi, a high al-Qaeda operative, in Pakistan is further proof that if you are interested in a “war” […]

Franklin Arrested Pentagon official Lawrence Franklin has been arrested and charged by the FBI with having shown classified documents to two officials of the American […]

Breaking News: 50 Dead in Irbil Bombing, 100 Wounded A man with high explosives on his person detonated his payload in the midst of a […]

Sunni VP Boycotts Swearing-In Ceremony 8 US Troops Wounded at Qaim and Ramadi, Dozens of Iraqis Killed Iraq’s government was sworn in on Tuesday. But […]

Is Bigotry All Right in Politics? John Aravosis argues that Pat Robertson should be a political pariah after his remarks on ABC’s “This Week” on […]

Madison and Algeria Many, many thanks to Armando and other diarists at Daily Kos for a thorough, impassioned and learned debate on my rant about […]

Boycott of Israeli Universities Wrong: AAUP The American Association of University Professors has quite rightly come out against a recent resolution of the British Association […]

The Disaster of Destroying the Voice of America Arabic Service Corey Pein in the Columbia Journalism Review writes about the current state of play with […]

US Military Tied down by Afghanistan, Iraq The US troops in Afghanistan and Iraq pretty much exhaust the conventional army capacity of the US military […]