By Gilbert Mercier, NEWS JUNKIE POST The G8 Summit starts in Italy on Thursday. The agenda was supposed to be mainly about Afghanistan until Iran’s Foreign Minister declined to attend. The US envoy in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, will be representing the US at the summit. One of the goals of the G8 summit was to [...]
Barack Obama’s promises to the American people when he was running for the presidency are still up on his campaign website. His “Blueprint For America,” a guide to the issues him and Joe Biden would take on if elected, are listed there, including immigration reform
At the press conference yesterday, the press corp asked more questions about the current status of President Obama’s smoking habit than any other topics. This is a sad statement for the press, and America’s priorities at large.
Former detainees have alleged they were beaten, deprived of sleep and threatened with dogs at the Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, according to a new BBC report based on interviews with more than two-dozen former prisoners held at Bagram between 2002 and 2006.
An award-winning journalist whose recent book sharply criticized U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald and other officials as being negligent for failing to stop a key al-Qaeda figure during their tenure directing the FBI’s elite bin Laden squad
