- Wrongful
Imprisonment: Anatomy of a CIA Mistake
Dana Priest
The Washington Post
The Masri case, with new details gleaned
from interviews with current and former intelligence and diplomatic officials,
offers a rare study of how pressure on the CIA to apprehend al Qaeda members after
the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has led in some instances to detention based on thin
or speculative evidence - Private
Security Guards in Iraq Operate With Little Supervision
T. Christian Miller
The Los Angeles Times
Private security contractors
have been involved in scores of shootings in Iraq, but none have been prosecuted
despite findings in at least one fatal case that the men had not followed proper
procedures, according to interviews and documents - Their
War, My Memories
Patrick J. McDonnell
The Los Angeles Times
For two years, Patrick J. McDonnell
saw Iraq through the eyes of many. There were those who wanted him and other Westerners
killed and those who protected him. Either way, he can't get them out of his mind - Oversight
of war spending is faulted
Bryan Bender
The Boston Globe
The Defense Department is preparing its
seventh supplemental budget request for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but
congressional overseers and government watchdog groups are warning that gaps in
the Pentagon's accounting methods make it difficult to monitor how the armed services
have spent more than $300 billion - Report
Finds Cover-Up in an F.B.I. Terror Case
Eric Lichtblau
The New York Times
Officials at the Federal Bureau of Investigation
mishandled a Florida terror investigation, falsified documents in the case in
an effort to cover repeated missteps and retaliated against an agent who first
complained about the problems - Bush
Administration Unyielding on Secret Terror Camp Reports
Brian Knowlton
International Herald Tribune
The New York Times
A spokesman
for the secretary promised last week that she would be "forthcoming"
on the matter during her five-day European tour. But there were also signs that
she might respond to the European complaints with a tough, no-nonsense stance - Do
As I Say, Not As I DoD
Fred Kaplan
Slate
Will the Pentagon ever value nation-building as much
as war-fighting? - The
New Rules of Engagement
Michael Ware
Time
As the insurgency rages on, a TIME investigation reveals
a new U.S. push to
exploit splits in its ranks. Can that help lead to an - Do
These Two Have Anything in Common?
Zbigniew Brzezinski
The Washington Post
President Bush has equated Islamic radicalism with communism. Is the comparison
sound? Is it wise? - 'A
Beacon on the Summit'
Eliot A. Cohen
The Wall Street Journal
American foreign policy will, inevitably,
steer a middle course, making unhappy compromises of its principles in the name
of power realities, or taking paths that seem to contradict its interests, narrowly
defined, in the name of broader goals - The
Global Underworld
Moisés Naim By Melanie Colburn
Mother Jones
The editor of Foreign Policy
explains how smugglers, traffickers, and copycats are hijacking the world economy - What
Happened to Iraq's WMD
Scott Ritter
The San Francisco Chronicle
The only true fix to the problems
of intelligence that manifested themselves in the Iraqi WMD debacle is to depoliticize
the process - The
Revolt of the Generals
Alexander Cockburn
CounterPunch
The immense significance of Rep John Murtha's
November 17 speech calling for immediate withdrawal from Iraq is that it signals
mutiny in the US senior officer corps - How
(Not) To Withdraw from Iraq
Tom Engelhardt
Tomdispatch.com
Mother Jones
The Bush administration's
new "plan," such as it is, to draw-down our troops (while pressing our
shrinking set of allies not to do the same) is clearly modeled on Laird's Vietnamization
experience - When
press is paid to lie, the truth always comes out
Clarence Page
The Chicago Tribune
That's the trouble with pay-for-good-press
schemes; The truth has a nagging little way of coming out, causing more damage
than the chicanery gained - What
Would J.F.K. Have Done?
Theodore C. Sorensen and Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
The New York Times
Once
American troops are out of
Iraq , people around the world will rejoice
that we have recovered our senses. What's more, the killing of Americans and the
global loss of American credibility will diminish - The
Insurgencies Are Winning
Robert Dreyfuss
TomPaine.com
Next week, the entire House Democratic caucus
will meet in closed session with one item on the table: Iraq. Don’t expect the
Democrats to come up with a unified position - U.S.
and Britain Try a New Tack on Iran
Steven R. Weisman and David E. Sanger
The New York Times
Britain and the
United States are trying to persuade Russia and China to endorse their conclusion,
derived from what officials call new evidence, that Tehran intends to build nuclear
weapons - Get
recruited: But there's no dyin' tie-in
Carina Chocano
The Houston Chronicle
How awesome is the Army? You really have no idea until you send away for the "Stand
Ready: Being a Soldier in the Army Reserve" DVD, as advertised on MTV - Bummer,
Dude--The National Guard's Here
Anya Kamenetz
The Village Voice
There's no word on how long the military
will be sharing peacekeeping duties here. They have given out business cards to
Uptown residents saying they will be answering if you call 911 - Environmental
awareness and anger grow in China
Jehangir S. Pocha
The Boston Globe
Much of China watched in horror as
work crews struggled to contain the recent benzene spill that polluted the northeastern
Songhua River and disrupted drinking water supplies to about 12 million people
in the region - Chinese
Peasants Turn Their Rage On Authorities
Edward Cody
The Washington Post
The violence in Yantang, although small
in scale, was part of what officials say is a growing trend of assaults against
police, officials and government property in China - Democracy
at stake in Russian vote
Michael Mainville
The San Francisco Chronicle
Democratic reformers say
the campaign for the Moscow City Council, which is being closely watched as a
gauge of Russia's political future ahead of parliamentary polls in 2007 and a
presidential election in 2008, paints a grim picture of that future - Election
rivals face repressive campaign
Christopher Pala
The Washington Times
President Nursultan Nazarbayev,
65, facing the stiffest challenge ever in his re-election bid, has cracked down
on the opposition as if he were afraid of losing today's election, opponents say - Kim
casts North as movie magic
Andrew Salmon
The Washington Times
Watch out, Hollywood. North Korean
leader Kim Jong-il, a longtime film buff, has ordered his nation's tiny film industry
to begin competing in the big leagues - Democratic
dawn in Ethiopia fades as abuses come to light
Inigo Gilmore
The Observer (UK)
Ethiopia is in danger of losing millions
of pounds of foreign aid as disturbing new evidence of violence and mass detentions
emerges from the country that until recently was being hailed as the great democratic
hope of Africa | - Decline
in Support for War Worries GOP
Shailagh Murray
The Washington Post
In Georgia, Even Republican Voters
Are Voicing Unhappiness With Iraq Involvement - Blanco
Releases Katrina Records
Joby Warrick, Spencer S. Hsu and Anne Hull
The Washington Post
Raw and
frequently conflicting, reflecting the chaotic conditions in the initial hours
after the storm hit, the records paint an intimate portrait of a state struggling
to overcome extremes of weather and bureaucratic incompetence - A
New View at Defense
Daniel Klaidman, John Barry and Michael Hirsh
Newsweek
The ascent of England
as Donald Rumsfeld's deputy Defense secretary is the best evidence yet that a
new array of career professionals—the post-neocons, if you will—has emerged as
a powerful force in Bush's second term - Bush's
Speech on Iraq War Echoes Voice of an Analyst
Scott Shane
The New York Times
Its relentless focus on the theme of victory
strongly reflected a new voice in the administration: Peter D. Feaver, a Duke
University political scientist who joined the N.S.C. staff as a special adviser
in June - State
Department using ideological litmus tests to screen speakers
Warren P. Strobel and Jonathan S. Landay
Knight-Ridder
The State Department
has been using political litmus tests to screen private American citizens before
they can be sent overseas to represent the United States, weeding out critics
of the Bush administration's Iraq policy - For
Alito, a Tricky Question of Statements vs. Thoughts
Charles Lane
The Washington Post
Crucial to Alito's success, legal analysts
said, will be his ability to lay out a convincing view of stare decisis -- the
legal doctrine that says courts should avoid overturning their past rulings, such
as Roe - GOP
scandal gives Dems hope for win
Edward Epstein
The San Francisco Chronicle
Election to fill Cunningham's
seat to test strategy of tarring Republicans as corrupt - Anatomy
of a Victory
The Nation
Bush was defeated because he was challenged from day one by a sophisticated
progressive mobilization, spearheaded by the Campaign for America's Future |
- Pump
Up the Volume
Fred Barnes
The Weekly Standard
Is this the start of a Bush comeback?
Could be. And there's even stronger evidence of a turnaround - A
Moral War
Victor Davis Hanson
National Review
Who knows what the current opportunists
and pessimists will say by summer - It's
My Party
Dick Armey
The Wall Street Journal
To succeed in the future, the Republican
Party must get back to basics. We need, in effect, another Republican takeover
of - Withdrawal
Pains
Robert Kagan
The Washington Post
For 2 1/2 years, despite the endless
promise of reductions, despite election battles, scandals and shifting political
fortunes, the United States has maintained a steady force of 130,000 to 150,000
troops in Iraq. You can bet that the numbers will not be dramatically smaller
a year from now or even two years from n |
- Goodbye,
Moon
Karen Karbo
The New York Times
How long has this bowl full of mush been
sitting here? A single drop of sour milk contains more than 50 million potentially
fatal bacteria. At the very least Bunny is in danger of contracting irritable
bowel syndrome - Secrets
of the Baghdad giggle sheets
Henry Beard
The Los Angeles Times
This one paid humorists, including me,
to write pro-American jokes to be slipped into the pages of Arabic-language giggle
sheets like Al Laffiya, Boffolah, Khomedei and Hardeharharharam - Mike
Luckovich
The Washington Post
Phased withdrawal |
