Politics

WASHINGTON — When the CIA sent word in 2005 to destroy scores of videos showing waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics, there was an unusual omission in the carefully worded memo: the names of two […] […]

LONDON — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says there appears to be evidence of war crimes in the thousands of pages of leaked U.S. military documents on the war in Afghanistan The online whistle-blower WikiLeaks on […] […]

VENEZUELAN President Hugo Chavez yesterday threatened to cut off oil supplies to the US if it supported a Colombian military attack on Venezuela, and warned Washington to stay out of the crisis. Mr Chavez broke […] […]

THE Opposition People’s National Party (PNP), five days after its members of Parliament abstained in a vote to extend the limited State of Public Emergency, and in the face of mounting criticisms, yesterday accused the […] […]

THE White House has denounced a massive leak of secret military files that allegedly describes how Pakistan’s spy service helps Afghan insurgents. In all, some 92,000 documents were released by the web whistleblower Wikileaks, containing […] […]

A six-year archive of classified military documents made public on Sunday offers an unvarnished, ground-level picture of the war in Afghanistan that is in many respects more grim than the official portrayal. The secret documents, […] […]

By Sandrea:- MY GRIPE Former EX CIA Chief Michael Hayden suggestion in the press that military action against Iran is more likely because no matter what the U.S. does diplomatically, Tehran keeps pushing ahead with […] […]

MOSUL, Iraq—When the U.S. ends its combat mission in Iraq five weeks from now, the nation’s safety will be in the hands of its homegrown, American-trained security forces. The army is almost up to the […] […]

By Sandrea:- MY GRIPE Following business secretary Vince Cable comments in the Evening Standard that “it was difficult working with former political opponents”.  I cannot understand why anyone would be surprised. There are past and […] […]

ISLAMABAD—U.S. missiles hit a suspected militant hide-out, killing 16 insurgents in a troubled Pakistani tribal region along the Afghan border before dawn Saturday, intelligence officials said. The strike came as the U.S. Joint Chiefs of […] […]