Foreign Policy
Obama’s China Trade Solution: Give Them Our Hi-Tech
The China Daily US Edition reported on September 7 that "China will 'vigorously' expand its imports of key products as the nation strives...
Appeals Court Bars Suits on Government Torture
The September 8 ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, often described as the most "liberal"...
Read moreU.S. Bankrolling of Afghan Security Forces
President Barack Obama set a date of July 2011 to begin withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan. This does not, however, mean that the...
Read moreCombat in Iraq Continues as Plans for Long-term U.S. Presence Are Laid
On August 31 President Barack Obama announced that “the American combat mission in Iraq has ended.” ...
Read moreNews Contradictions: Americans Must Pursue Truth
Francois-Marie Arouet, better known as Voltaire, was once quoted as saying, “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the...
Read moreIraq to Buy 13B in U.S. Military Equipment
USA Today reported on September 2 that Iraq is preparing to buy as much as $13 billion in U.S. arms and military equipment....
Read moreObama Claims End to “Combat Operations” in Iraq
President Barack Obama claimed August 31 in an Oval Office address to the nation that “tonight, I am announcing that the American combat...
Read more(Supposed) End of U.S. Combat Role in Iraq
Speaking in a television address broadcast nationally just hours before the formal end of U.S. combat operations in Iraq on August 31, Iraqi...
Read moreBoondoggles in Baghdad, Basra, and Beyond
Your tax dollars at work, as reported by the Associated Press: “As the U.S. draws down in Iraq, it is leaving behind hundreds...
Read moreTrilateral Commission Keeps Expanding
Launched in 1973, the Trilateral Commission (TC) listed an initial roster of 187 members, all of whom hailed from three areas: Western Europe,...
Read moreAmerican Held by North Korea Returns Home
Aijalon Mahli Gomes — a U.S. citizen imprisoned in North Korea last January, and later sentenced to eight years of hard labor with...
Read morePeace Activists Attempt to Stop Iraq Deployment at Ft. Hood
According to the Daily Paul website, early Monday morning, August 23, five anti-war protesters wearing black shirts that read “Disobey,” attempted to block...
Read moreKarzai Aide Suspected of Link to CIA
The New York Times on August 25 quoted unnamed Afghan and U.S. officials who asserted that the chief of the Afghan National Security...
Read morePentagon Denounces Taliban Claims About PFC Bergdahl
According to one of his captors and Afghan intelligence officials, missing U.S. Army Private Bowe Bergdahl of Hailey, Idaho, has become a Muslim...
Read moreFirst U.S. Soldier Killed in Iraq Since “Withdrawal” of Combat Troops
The first U.S. soldier in Iraq has been killed since the withdrawal of the last “combat” brigade from the country on August 18,...
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