Bush’s plan to destroy America
By DOUG THOMPSON The absolute and unrelenting takeover of the government of the United States by George W. Bush continues - right under the noses of the new Democratic leadership of…
Tens of millions lost through waste, fraud in Iraq
By HOPE YEN and PAULINE JELINEK The U.S. government wasted tens of millions of dollars in Iraq reconstruction aid, including scores of unaccounted-for weapons and a never-used camp for housing police…
U.S. botched training of Iraqi security
By LAURIE KELLMAN Training the police is as important to stabilizing Iraq as standing up an army there, but the United States has botched the job by assigning the wrong agencies…
Obama: Time for the troops to come home
By NEDRA PICKLER Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama said Tuesday U.S. combat forces should be out of Iraq by spring 2008 to end "a foreign policy disaster" but he stopped…
Debunking the myths of health care
By PAUL C. CAMPOS Reforming the American health care system will be difficult as long as certain myths about it continue to flourish. Some of these myths include: In America, health…
Upstaging Bush was a man’s job
By ARTHUR I. CYR President Bush appropriately was center stage for the delivery of the latest State of the Union address, but he was quickly upstaged in regard to Iraq policy…
U.S. ignored warnings about Shiite militias
By LEILA FADEL McClatchy Newspapers Iraq's first democratically elected prime minister said this week that he warned U.S. officials two years ago that Shiite Muslim militias were infiltrating the country's security services…
Biden jumps into Presidential fray
Sen. Joe Biden officially joined an increasingly crowded field for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination Wednesday, as he has been promising for months. "After nine months of doing this, there is…
