Panel Pushes for More Aggressive US Missile Defense System | Current system ‘very expensive and has limited effectiveness’
Pre-9/11, Haqqani Group Urged Alliance With US
Less than a week after the US officially designated the Taliban-aligned Haqqani network a terrorist organization, declassified documents reveal the founder of the group advocated cooperation with the US in meetings with American diplomats two years before the 9/11...
Romney’s Afghan Policy: ‘Different’ but Really the Same
Romney’s Afghan Policy: ‘Different’ but Really the Same | Lays out a position indistinguishable from Obama’s
Obama Admin. Urges Congress to Renew Broad Surveillance Powers
The Obama administration still refuses to say how many times the government's controversial surveillance program, up for renewal this week in Congress, has gathered intelligence about US citizens. The program is the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, which authorizes broad,...
Poll Shows Overwhelming US Opposition to Attacking Iran
Poll Shows Overwhelming US Opposition to Attacking Iran | Don’t want to get involved if Israel attacks either
Obama Misleadingly Claims 9/11 Revived American ‘Values’
President Barack Obama marked the 11th anniversary of the September 11th attacks by claiming the legacy of that day was a safer American people and a stronger country, in a deluded, nationalistic speech in front of the Pentagon. "As painful as this day is - and always...
Israeli Official Cites 2007 Syria Strike to Justify Attacking Iran
An Israeli official on Monday cited a 2007 airstrike on a Syrian nuclear reactor to justify another unilateral attack on Iran’s nuclear program if the US maintains its position of not backing action now. “President [George W.] Bush did not agree to the United States...
Obama Rejects Netanyahu Request to Meet Later This Month
The White House has rejected a request by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to meet President Barak Obama in the United States later this month, in what has to be the biggest snub yet in a tense relationship between the two leaders. According to an Israeli...
Netanyahu: US Has No Moral Right to Block Israeli Strike on Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said the United States has no moral right to object to an Israeli military strike on Iran because it has failed to threaten Iran with war for a nuclear weapons program that doesn't exist. Netanyahu's statement seems...
21 Killed as Suicide Bomber Attacks Northern Afghanistan Protest
21 Killed as Suicide Bomber Attacks Northern Afghanistan Protest | At least 12 police reportedly among the slain