Jun 13
A recent Pentagon study revealed alarming statistics about suicides in the military. So far this year, there has been an average of one suicide per day among U.S. servicemen and women– a total of 154 deaths. To put that in perspective, 136 soldiers died in combat in Afghanistan over the same period of time. On …
Feb 08
Though nine years of American military presence in Iraq came to an end on December 15 of last year, the United States planned to maintain a massive diplomatic presence in Baghdad’s Green Zone consisting of almost 16,000 people working for the U.S. Department of State. Just recently, State Department officials announced they may cut embassy operations …
Jul 12
Eight years after George W. Bush infamously proclaimed “Mission Accomplished” in the Iraq War, President Obama seems ready to say the same thing in Afganistan. With the death of Osama bin Laden, will history prove the president right? Andrea Mitchell, chief foreign affairs correspondent at NBC, moderated a June 2 panel discussion on this question …
Dec 04
As the campaign to shutdown WikiLeaks intensifies, mainstream media needs to get off on the sidelines and rescue the beleaguered site. The New York Times should take a bold stand and immediately offer to host the site and its leaked classified material. A New York Times-WikiLeaks partnership would strengthen our democracy and give traditional journalism …