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Wave of Attacks in Iraq Leaves at Least 57 Dead
Baghdad - Insurgents across Iraq launched their most significant and wide-ranging attacks in months on Monday, killing 68 people and wounding over 300, marking the most violent day in …
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To Live Within Our Means, Let’s Leave Iraq as We Promised
The Senate and the Roman People have declared that the US government is spending too much money. We have to live within our means. Difficult choices lie ahead. We …
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Cholera Outbreaks Spread Across Somalia, UN Says
Nairobi, Kenya - A cholera epidemic is sweeping across Somalia, the United Nations said on Friday, as thousands of starving people flee famine zones and pack into crowded camps …
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US Greenlights Aid to Shabaab-Controlled Areas in Somalia
Washington - The Barack Obama administration promised Tuesday that the U.S. would not prosecute relief agencies for delivering aid to parts of Somalia controlled by the Islamist insurgent group …
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No Human Being Is Illegal
A UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter from the Department of Homeland Security's new Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), flies past the Empire State Building in New York during …
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The Problem With Affirmative Action
(Photo: _Davo_) Henry Louis Gates Jr., the famed African-American literary scholar and director of the Du Bois Institute at Harvard University, recently reflected the following in an …
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How to Deal With Iran’s Influence in Iraq
Iraqi border guards look out from Shulha al-Alghwat border fort on the Iraq-Iran border on April 1, 2010. Training Iraqis to guard their border is one of the last …
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Deporting Mom and Dad
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The New Old Obama
Washington - For President Obama, these are the days of never hearing an encouraging word. Not since his own supporters were losing faith in his presidential campaign in the …
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Special Ops: The New Face of War
American and Iraqi Special Operations commandoes on a joint operation mission in search of two suspected car bombers in western Baghdad, June 22, 2011. (Photo: Joseph Sywenkyj / The …