Ian Fisher: An American Soldier's Journey Told In Pictures
This is how an American soldier is made. For 27 months, Ian Fisher, his parents and friends, and the U.S. Army allowed Denver Post reporters and a ph...
This is how an American soldier is made. For 27 months, Ian Fisher, his parents and friends, and the U.S. Army allowed Denver Post reporters and a ph...
Posted 11.02.2009 | Home
Tonight, PBS airs "The People V. Leo Frank," a documentary that chronicles the bizarre, ugly case of Leo Frank. Frank was a Cornell-educated industria...
Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
By Scott Horton Special to the Huffington Post The prosecution had acted in a way that was "demonstrably honorable," and the defense's charges that ...
Leon T. Hadar | Posted 10.14.2009 | World
"I have to admit that I'm beginning to miss George W. Bush," is the way former Republican Senator "Chuck" Hagel responded when being asked by CNN's Wolf Blitzer to assess the foreign policy record of the administration of Republican President John McCain.
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 10.02.2009 | World
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WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 10.02.2009 | Home
Headline from an English-language Russian news site. Worldfocus producer Christine Kiernan writes about the reaction to the recently-released...
AP | RAF CASERT and DOUGLAS BIRCH | Posted 09.30.2009 | Home
BRUSSELS — Georgia and Russia both claimed to find vindication in Wednesday's independent report on the causes of their 2008 war, but neither seemed likely to be able to take the moral high ground because of its blunt judgments.
The EU-sponsored report supports Russia's insistence that Georgia launched the short but intense war with an indiscriminate rocket and artillery barrage on the separatist capital of South Ossetia – an act the commission said was not justifiable under international law.
Georgia can find support for its claim that Russia taunted and provoked it for years before the assault, then responded with disproportionate force, sending armored vehicles deep into undisputed Georgian territory.
Russia's retaliation went "far beyond the reasonable limits of defense," the report said, rejecting claims the country was trying to prevent genocide with its invasion of its southern neighbor, a former Soviet nation with fervent hopes of joining the EU and NATO.
The beginnings of the July 2008 war had been murky, its aftermath contentious.
AP | Posted 09.30.2009 | Home
MOSCOW — The Kremlin says it's ready to fully restore cooperation with NATO, which was suspended in the aftermath of Russia's war with Georgia.
President Dmitry Medvedev's spokeswoman Nataliya Timakova said Wednesday that a planned visit to Moscow by the NATO chief demonstrates that the alliance is ready for better ties.
Relations between NATO and Russia were frozen after the August 2008 war. NATO accused Russia of using excessive force and occupying Georgian territory.
Timakova says that an EU-commissioned report released Wednesday showed that NATO had made some decision too quickly.
The report says that Georgia's attack on its breakaway province of South Ossetia marked the start of the war, but it also concluded that Russia retaliated with excessive force.
Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 09.30.2009 | Home
EU report accuses both sides of violating international law in last year's conflict....
American Red Cross | Posted 09.28.2009 | Impact
ATLANTA - The American Red Cross began client casework today as preliminary damage assessment shows that nearly 2,000 homes have been affected by floo...
Jerry Chautin | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known as ACORN, is in the news again and conservative politicians are going for the jugular vein.
John Terzano | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics
For twenty innocent Georgians, eight years is the average length of time each spent behind bars for a crime they did not commit.
AP | GREG BLUESTEIN | Posted 09.22.2009 | Home
ATLANTA — Surging floodwaters ripped apart a west Georgia trailer home, drowning a 2-year-old boy swept from his father's arms. In Atlanta, stra...
The Huffington Post | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
On Tuesday evening police arrested Troy Dale West for beating an African-American army reservist in front of her daughter outside a Cracker Barrel res...
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
The code words change over time (from "nullification" to "states' rights" to Pawlenty's "state sovereignty"), but the idea is the same -- we retain the right to ignore any laws we don't feel like following.
Posted 11.08.2009 | Green
Al Jazeera English explores what happened to the famous Soviet monkeys who were launched into space during the 1980s. The descendants of those monkeys...
Doug Bandow | Posted 10.23.2009 | World
The world has turned out to be a lot less malleable and willing to adjust to American preferences than the president may have thought before taking office.
David Adkins | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
While the New Deal was about federal agencies, the Recovery Act is about federal partnership, with states leading the charge in providing essential services to the vulnerable while jump-starting economic growth.
wsj.com | LESLIE EATON, RYAN KNUTSON and PHILIP SHISHKIN | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business
California drivers can't line up to renew their licenses Friday. Wisconsin natives can't order copies of their birth certificates. Georgia consumers w...
Deborah Copaken Kogan | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living
Unless I'm beating my toddler in the middle of a Wal-Mart -- which I'm proud to report I haven't resorted to yet, not that I haven't been tempted -- your unsolicited advice is not welcome.
Diane Tucker | Posted 10.01.2009 | World
Every two or three years, there has been a wave of protests like this in Iran. But this time I think there has been a fundamental change.
AP | CHRIS GILLETTE | Posted 09.21.2009 | Home
HAMILTON, Bermuda — Hurricane Bill slammed punishing waves into Bermuda's coastal seawalls as it spun Friday over the open Atlantic, spreading b...
John F. Wasik | Posted 09.12.2009 | Business
Pedestrian-friendly cities can make huge personal economic sense. If you don't need a car, you can save thousands a year.
Bruce Nilles | Posted 09.11.2009 | Green
Three years ago Dynegy launched plans to partner with LS Power and become the largest new developer of coal-fired power plants. Yesterday Dynegy officially terminated those plans.
Denver Post | Posted 11.08.2009 | Denver