Australia's Ex-Foreign Minister: 'Swivel-Eyed Neo-Cons' Bankrupted America And Drained Its Military Strength
In " Diary of a Foreign Minister" published by Australia’s former top diplomat, Bob Carr, many US politicians are given effusive praise. From Republican Senators John McCain and Roy Blunt, to President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry – Carr finds America breeds “public polity athletes” ...
Obama says rooting out Islamic State will not be easy
CHARLOTTE N.C. (Reuters) - President Barack Obama vowed to punish the Islamic State killers of American journalist James Foley on Tuesday but said rooting out the militant group in Iraq and Syria will not be fast or easy. As Obama spoke, the United States was moving ahead with surveillance flights o ...
Centers help torture survivors from Iraq, other nations
LOUISVILLE — News of renewed violence and airstrikes in her native Iraq brings the whole terrible nightmare back: the crash of a wall collapsing on her sleeping family. Then the silence. Then her own screams as she gropes in the dusty dark for her young ...