No matter how kind we are to our families, friends, and communities, ignoring what we did to Iraq leaves our ethical spreadsheets hopelessly unbalanced.
Americans Still Turn Blind Eye to the Savagery We Unleashed in Iraq
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Method to the Madness of Iraqi Insurgents’ Mindless Violence
You’d think that insurgents who strike out at both Shia and Sunni would alienate most Middle-Easterners, but they may know what they’re doing.
Note to Al Qaeda in Iraq: How Does Attacking Your Own People Undermine Their Confidence in the Government?
Attempts by Iraqi insurgents to undermine confidence in the government only undermine confidence on the part of the public in their cause.
Brazil’s First Female President Expected to Carry on Lula’s Work — for Better or Worse
The new Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff may once have been a Marxist guerilla but her administration is no more a friend to the left than President Obama’s is.
Was Church Attack Blowback for Would-Be Koran Burner?
Were Rev. Terry Jones’s threats to burn the Koran enough to inspire the carnage that Islamic State of Iraq inflicted on the church in Baghdad?
Proposition 19 Is a Vote Heard ‘Round the World
Latin American governments can’t help but ask how the U.S. government can continue to call on them to implement harsh drug control policies when a key policy is being called into question in the United States itself.
What if Nuclear Terrorism Were Just a Mouse Click Away?
With 50 nukes knocked offline, inquiring minds want to know: can hacking be ruled out?
WikiLeaks: An Inventive New Threat to the Propaganda System (Part 2)
Ever wonder why WikiLeaks has been the beneficiary of high-profile document dumps? Perhaps its leaker feared that the mainstream media would have left them to die on the vine.
Republican Sees 50 Nukes Knocked Offline as a Chance to Recoup Lost Ground
Republican sees nuke base failure as yet another opportunity to engage in new START obstructionism.
Argentina’s Once — and Might-Have-Been Future — President Dies, to the Rejoicing of the Corporate Sector
Nestor Kirchner revived his country’s economy by breaking with neoliberal policies and playing hardball with international creditors.