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    Friday
    Aug272010

    The WikiLeaks Controversy: What’s the Truth?

    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.

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    Wednesday
    Aug252010

    Campaign to Defend WikiLeaks Grows 

    Thousands of Americans are protesting White House and Pentagon threats against WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange.

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    Thursday
    Aug192010

    US Combat Ends in Iraq, But US Covert Operations Begin

    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]

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    Wednesday
    Aug182010

    National Security Moderates Propose Two-Year Afghan Withdrawal

    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.

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    Wednesday
    Aug182010

    Long War Doctrine Being Implemented

    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.

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