Month: December 2017

At first blush, it’s tempting to describe the tentative deal between the U.S. and North Korea as an exercise in “kicking the can down the road.” Pyongyang has agreed, in…

Back in January, we told you about Air Force Staff Sergeant Michelle Manhart, the former military training instructor (drill instructor for those of you in the other services) who ran…

British Airways elects to buy more Boeing 777s for its long-haul fleet, instead of Airbus A330s. An airline spokesman described the decision as “very close,” but that sounds like a…

Military officials now say a Black Hawk helicopter that made a “hard landing” near Baghdad on Wednesday was actually downed by hostile fire. None of the nine soldiers on board…

You spent more than two years–and several million of our tax dollars–looking into the alleged “outing” of CIA officer Valerie Plame. Eventually, you indicted Vice President Cheney’s former Chief of…

For journalists, there are few honors higher than winning a George Polk Award, named for the CBS Correspondent who was killed (under mysterious circumstances) while covering the Greek civil war…

AP: Iran has expanded its uranium enrichment program instead of complying with a U.N. Security Council ultimatum to freeze it. As a public service, we offer some potential solutions for…

Since late last year, a number of media outlets have echoed the notion that even military personnel are abandoning the Bush Administration and its security policies in the Middle East.…

Over the past couple of months, we’ve written extensively about “Petition for Redress,” the supposedly grass-roots campaign by junior military personnel to end our involvement in Iraq. More than 1,000…

Let’s begin by separating the wheat from the chaff: today’s “assasination attempt” against Vice President Cheney in Afghanistan was that in name only. The suicide bomber who blew himself up…