Daily Archives: November 27, 2010

Lawyers who are specialists in the International Law of Armed Conflict, War Crimes Law to the rest of us, say the uranium smoke, dust and shrapnel must be able to be turned off when the battle is over. Too bad. Uranium gas is a radioactive and electrically charged poison forever.

Wikileaks is like a TV show that never gets off the ground. We started with a "shoot 'em up" in Iraq, the helicopter slaughter soon forgotten and move on to, well, what? We got a deluge of material from Afghanistan, carefully gleaned to point fingers at Pakistan. When it came down to backing any of it up, it went nowhere.

Unfortunately the reality that was the basis of the original Boston Tea Party has been forgotten in the latter-day protests. By Paul J Balles If the...

Staff Sgt. David Senft tried to commit suicide twice but he was redeployed anyway. Now he is gone and the Army is investigating his...

By ABDULHAMİT BİLİCİ Questions began pouring in immediately following our return from the NATO summit in Lisbon, which addressed the missile defense shield issue. What...

According to the Lebanese military, at 11 am and again at 1 p.m. on 1l/24/10, a total of six Israeli warplanes crossed into Lebanese airspace, and violated for the 8256th time UNSC resolution 1701 that ended Israel’s 5th war against Lebanon, on August 14, 2006. Nearly, daily, and sometimes several times daily, warplanes and/or reconnaissance aircraft invade the skies over Lebanon to frighten, attempt to intimidate, and pressure the Lebanese population. They also to try to keep tabs on Lebanon’s resistance, led by Hezbollah.

Lebanon is on a knife-edge amid mounting tension over a UN probe into the murder of the country's ex-premier and efforts by regional leaders to try to contain a potentially explosive situation.