The monthly death toll in Iraq rose 15 percent in March, government figures revealed, as insurgents and sectarian militias continue to defy a military crackdown in Baghdad.
Half the 30,000 troop reinforcements promised by President George W. Bush
The treatment of Faye Turney is wrong - but not in the same league as British and US abuses. Her comrades have not been shackled, blindfolded, forced into excruciating physical contortions for long periods, or denied liquids and food. As far as we kn
Several thousand women marched through the Mexican capital in support of a bill to legalize abortion in the first three months of pregnancy, a proposal that has drawn harsh criticism from the Roman Catholic Church.
"The net treats censorship as damage and routes around it." These are the words of John Gilmore, radical libertarian, Sun Microsystems employee number five and bona fide west-coast guru-gazillionaire, and for much of the last 10 years they*
Looking back, Mr. Dowd now says his faith in Mr. Bush was misplaced.
In a wide-ranging interview here, Mr. Dowd called for a withdrawal from Iraq and expressed his disappointment in Mr. Bush’s leadership.
He criticized t
Organizers behind a campaign that saw Sydney impose a one-hour blackout to focus attention to global warming hailed it as a success for taking the equivalent of nearly 50,000 cars off the road. [And you paid for this "service?"]
Despite owning a 22-game winning streak and having the nation's best big man patrolling the paint, Ohio State knows it will be the underdog when it plays Florida for the national championship Monday.
A British resident released from Guantanamo Bay after nearly five years in captivity said his detention at the U.S. prison camp was "profoundly difficult" to endure, his first comments since his release.
The U.S. military death toll in March, the first full month of the security crackdown, was nearly twice that of the Iraqi army, which American and Iraqi officials say is taking the leading role in the latest attempt to curb violence in the capital, s
The Defense Department has doubled its planned investment in new weapons from $750 billion in 2001 to $1.5 trillion this year, but it is not getting enough bang for its buck, congressional investigators said
The real deadline for Congress to provide more money for the war in Iraq is well beyond the April 15 deadline cited by President Bush and Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
The Pentagon can take several penny-pinching steps without harming troop read
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It has been discovered Bureau of Land Management, BLM, employees intentionally obstruct open tr
The bodyguards linger in the steakhouse foyer, conspicuous with their handguns in lumpy fanny packs. The bulletproof SUV sits in quick-getaway position outside. And now Lydia Cacho Ribeiro's cellphone rings.
The White House scrambled Sunday to move up Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' planned testimony to Congress about his involvement in firing eight federal prosecutors, only to get a cold shoulder from majority Democrats.
The US will be ready to launch a missile attack on Iran's nuclear facilities as soon as early this month, perhaps "from 4am until 4pm on April 6," according to reports in the Russian media on Saturday. According to Russian intelligence
As if braces for a flood of war-disabled veterans, the nation's disability compensation systems for former troops has become a $26 billion behemoth bloated and backlogged in part by overgenerous benefits for minor maladies
Michael Phelps equaled the most hallowed mark in swimming, winning his seventh gold medal at the World Swimming Championships Sunday night with his fifth world record. Phelps never got a chance at an eighth gold after his teammates were DQ'd
Nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz will sail April 2 to support US operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US Navy said, amid a spike in tensions over Iran's seizure of 15 British marines and sailors. The Nimitz will relieve the carrier
James Bovard "Attention Deficit Democracy" and Jim Lescynski "The Walton Street Tycoons" will talk about their perspectives on the growing "Ron Paul Revolution" in the race for POTUS in 2008.
The office in charge of protecting American technical secrets about nuclear weapons from foreign spies is missing 20 desktop computers, at least 14 of which have been used for classified informatoin, the Energy Dept inspector general reported on Frid
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform today formally requested Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to testify before the committee on Apr. 18 regarding the Bush adminstration's claims that Iraq had sought uranium from Niger
A book review of "Radicals for Capitalism: A freewheeling history of the Moderan American Libertarian Movement". Of course, the NY Times is so kind to libertarians in general.
After a raid on a suspected Al-Qaeda cell in Nairobi Kenya, a flurry of phone traffic, warning other operatives about the raid, is monitored by CIA and NSA. This was started in 1997. Makes you wonder what they were doing.
From 1993 to 2001, the FBI monitored a Florida cell of Islamic radicals starting in the early 90's, but no action is taken until after 9/11. Part of the cell included Jose Padilla. There's other interesting tidbits in this timeline as well.
President Bush issues a "non-lethal presidential finding" permitting the CIA to provide financial and logistical support to Lebanese prime minister Fouad Siniora. The classified presidential order "authorizes the CIA and other US inte
Ron Paul talked to an enthusiastic crowd yesterday at a brunch sponsored by the Arizona Republican Assembly. Following his talk, Dr Paul fielded questions ranging from the North American Union, to Immigration and Abortion.