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In a rueful reflection on what might have been, an Iraqi government insider details in 500 pages the U.S. occupation's "shocking" mismanagement of his country, a performance so bad, he writes, that Iraqis had "turned their backs o
Senator John McCain says the House, the Senate and the majority of the American people are all wrong when it comes to Iraq. He set out to prove it last week by walking into the heart of Baghdad. What he said about security after that walk set off fro
Rick Berman, a Washington lobbyist and arch-enemy of other lobbyists and do-gooders who would have government control, and even ban, a myriad of products they claim are killing us. Products like caffeine, salt, fast food and the oil they fry it in. H
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is considering a change in the way Internet's governing body is organized that could allow it to skirt some potential legal issues.
Officials in the four states where Mitt Romney has lived say the Republican presidential contender, who calls himself a lifelong hunter, never took out a hunting license. Romney says that is because he seldom has hunted where he needed one.
American forces who captured five Iranians in the northern city of Irbil three months ago were really after commanders of Iran's Revolutionary Guards who were visiting Kurdish officials, the Kurdish leader said in remarks broadcast.
Iran has still not received a reply to a request to visit five Iranians held by U.S. forces in Iraq, an official at Iran's Baghdad embassy was quoted by Iran's ISNA news agency.
An Iranian diplomat freed 2 months after being abducted in Iraq accused the CIA of torturing him during his detention, state television reported. The US immediately denied any involvement in the Iranian's disappearance or release.
The world's biggest gas exporting countries begin a two-day meeting here to discuss proposals to form a cartel -- an idea that has consumer nations worried even if it does not appear imminent.
A presentation prepared by the US Army shows that there still exist situations in which the military may not be able to prosecute private contractors who commit crimes.
[Missile shield from whom?] A senior Russian lawmaker called for Russia to be included in US plans to build a missile defence system in Europe, warning Moscow will otherwise view the antimissile shield as a threat.
The White House's huffing and puffing about Nancy Pelosi's visit to Syria is just a bunch of hooey. Congress is an independent and coequal branch of our government. Its members can go anywhere they wish to go, and that includes the current Ho
Began formally requesting of Condi Rice, then Bush’s National Security Adviser, an explanation of the use, by President Bush of "fabricated intelligence" to "justify" Bush’s exercise of the highly conditional authority Congress ha
Tokyo's election commission asked the popular video sharing website YouTube to take off clips of candidates for the local governor's race, saying it gave some of them unfair advantages. [like free coverage for everyone]
Deputy energy, water and communications minister Shaziman Abu Mansor said his department was considering an option to make surfers identify themselves so that the government can track their activities.
Hafetz, a lawyer at the Washington-based law institute the Brennan Center for Justice, described Meshal's detention as "a product of the lawless process that's taking place in Ethiopia now with the US involved."
According to the DOD IG's quietly released second version of Feith (Office of Special Plans) and the gang, we "re-learn" things we had already known, and yet there is still no legal action on the part of the DOD against Feith? Interesti
How the Bush family's private connection to a dirty offshore bank is the only link between Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.
There is a major disconnect in the 2008 Democratic race for the White House. While all the top candidates are vying for the black and Latino vote, they are completely ignoring the failed War on Drugs that has morphed into a war on people of color.
Astronomers using data from several X-ray satellites have caught a magnetar – the remnant of a massive star with an incredibly strong magnetic field – in a sort of giant cosmic belch.
State and local taxes will consume a record setting 11% of the nation’s income in 2007. Since 1986, the state-local tax burden had never fallen below 10% or risen above 10.9%. Figure 1 charts the course of the nation’s state-local tax burden sin
The US admitted it was actively working to undermine Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe. Officially Washington does not support regime change, a US state department report acknowledged it was supporting opposition politicians in the country and
After 23-year-old Lodi resident Hamid Hayat was convicted last year of training at a terrorist camp in Pakistan, government officials warned that terror investigations in Northern California were ongoing. [I'm confused. Who is the terrorist?]
“A Pakistani tribal militant group responsible for a series of deadly guerrilla raids inside Iran has been secretly encouraged and advised by American officials since 2005, U.S. and Pakistani intelligence sources tell ABC News.”
A U.S. Republican congressman met President Bashar Assad on Thursday, a day after a visit by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, spurning the White House policy of isolating the Syrian leadership.
As the Baghdad security plan under Army Gen. David Petraeus moves forward, US and Iraqi forces are apprehending hundreds of insurgents. Many of them are quickly being transferred to the Iraqis for detainment. There's just one problem: The Iraqi j
Recently unearthed police logs reveal a secret FBI intelligence unit helped detain a group of war protesters in a downtown Washington parking garage in April 2002 and interrogated them on videotape about their political and religious beliefs.
Shortly before leaving Moscow after four years covering Russia, I was granted a rare audience by a top Kremlin official. As we talked about Vladimir Putin and his relationship with President Bush, the Kremlin official compared the Bush team
The number of US forces involved in Iraq are at least twice the number as those quoted in the media. The adminstration uses a number of deceptions, definitional illusions and euphuisms including counting only "combat forces"
An alleged co-conspirator in the sordid bribery tale of Randy Cunningham remains an enigmatic yet key figure in what federal officials have said is the single-largest case of congressional corruption in US history. The alleged co-conspirator, New Yor
