America’s security concerns due to terrorism are having unwanted side effects in relations with the EU. Handelsblatt, the German newspaper is reporting that visa requirements for some EU citizens is causing the EU to retaliate with visa requirements of its own for U.S. diplomats.
The U.S. has definitely become more stringent since 9/11 regarding foreigners. [...]

America’s security concerns due to terrorism are having unwanted side effects in relations with the EU. Handelsblatt, the German newspaper is reporting that visa requirements for some EU citizens is causing the EU to retaliate with visa requirements of its own for U.S. diplomats. With fingerprinting for foreign visitors and passenger lists for [...]

Apparently, the Bush administration isn’t just waterboarding its detainees; it’s doing much, much more. I can’t hope this book will get enough press because the American people are completely apathetic, but this is a travesty. Does it take the British press to raise this issue?
Jane Mayer’s new book, The Dark Side, reveals in [...]

In a new expose by Seymour Hersh, the New Yorker explains what the Bush administration is up to regarding Iran. Obviously, there is still time to attack Iran before Bush leaves the White House. Are they prepared to do so? Read here.

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Ingrid Betancourt and other hostages are free. From the Wall Street Journal.
How ‘Operation Check-Mate’ WorkedBy DAVID LUHNOW and JOSÉ DE CÓRDOBAJuly 3, 2008
Here’s how “Operation Check-Mate” worked. Details of the rescue mission are from Juan Manuel Santos, Colombia’s defense minister, and Ingrid Betancourt, one of the freed hostages.
Colombia’s army, having infiltrated the FARC’s highest [...]

Remember when Paul Wolfowitz admitted in 2003 almost five years ago to the day that there never were any weapons of mass destruction? The Bush Administration had decided to use the WMD rationale ‘for bureaucratic reasons.’ He said, For bureaucratic reasons we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction, because it [...]

Hillary Clinton takes a very hawkish stance on National defense. When analyzing the differences between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, it is this national security hawkishness which strikes me as the most important policy difference between the two. Even John McCain is less hawkish than Clinton on national security.
Today the Carpetbagger Report has [...]

I have traveled to a number of countries since this campaign started and I have read much of the foreign press. From where I sit, it is obvious that non-Americans really want a ‘regime change’ in the United States. They view the U.S. as a threat to world peace and are frightened how [...]

The Boston Globe had an editorial in today’s paper entitled ‘Hillary Strangelove’ about Hillary Clinton’s dangerous and outlandish saber-rattling. Recently, she said in the Pennsylvania debate that she would use “massive retaliation” against Iran for an attack on Israel. She later qualified this statement on Keith Olbermann’s show to mean in the case [...]

I was talking to a friend yesterday about the apathy of this generation of youth on key political and social issues. I said that if the Generation of ‘68 had gone through what this generation is going through they would be occupying the College Dean’s Office and burning something down. This generation seems [...]