Friday, August 27, 2010 at 4:49PM While the White House and Pentagon worry over the coming disclosure of another 15,000 classified documents on Afghanistan by WikiLeaks, the organization’s leader Julian Assange finds himself swirling in accusations of sexual impropriety.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 at 12:56PM Thousands of Americans are protesting White House and Pentagon threats against WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange.
Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 12:17PM While the Obama administration struggles to keep its pledge to end the Iraq war, a behind-the-scenes plan is developing in which the Baghdad regime “invites” the American military to stay. While media attention focused this week on the last combat brigade rolling out of Iraq, US diplomat Ryan Crocker was saying that if the Iraqis “come to us later on this year requesting that we jointly relook at the post-2011 period, it is going to be in our strategic interest to be responsive.” [NYT, Aug. 19]
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 4:44PM The United States should reduce its troops in Afghanistan from the current level of 100,000 to 68,000 by October 2011, and another 30,000 by July 2012, a nearly-complete two-year withdrawal.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 4:39PM The New York Times finally broke a front-page story on a widening “secret war on terror” on August 15. But the article failed to report the trillion-dollar costs of the secret “shadow war”, and made it appear to be an ad hoc response to a widening Al Qaeda threat.
