News and Analysis from the United States
By Bill Gertz United States B-52 bombers carried out simulated nuclear bombing raids on North Korea as part of ongoing U.S.-South Korean military exercises, Pentagon officials said on Monday. Pentagon press secretary George Little told reporters that B-52 bombers from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, conducted a training mission over South… Read More ›
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The U.S military says two nuclear-capable B-2 bombers have completed a training mission in South Korea amid threats from North Korea that include nuclear strikes on Washington and Seoul. The statement Thursday by U.S. Forces Korea is an unusual confirmation. It follows… Read More ›
Zimmerman compares Trayvon Martin to a black teen who murdered a baby. By Alyssa Figueroa On Saturday, the media reported that De’Marquise Elkins, a 17-year-old teen, along with another 14-year-old had been detained as suspects for shooting and killing a mother named Sherry… Read More ›
Both USFK and SK Ministry of National Defense dispute figures that show troop levels far above the agreed upon 28,500 By Kim Kyu-won and Gil Yun-hyung, staff reporters USFK troop levels, which have remained consistently in the 26,000 to 29,000… Read More ›
Russian senators are drafting a bill on prohibiting the glorification of Nazi crimes and the usage of any Nazi or similar symbols and gestures in the country. Violation of the law will be punishable by a fine from 300,000 rubles… Read More ›
She claims that when she went to the principal to complain about the harassment, the principal allegedly replied, “I don’t want a dyke in this school.” Within the first three days of enrolling in Magnolia Junior High School in Mississippi, … Read More ›
North Dakota legislatures have passed toughest anti-abortion resolution, asking the public to decide whether the state constitution should define life as beginning at conception. If approved, state-wide abortions will be outlawed. The resolution was passed on Friday and will appear… Read More ›
Following a leaked recording seeming to prove the existence of an NYPD arrest quota system, a second police officer has come forward to explain to a federal judge why he decided to record his superiors as they directed him to… Read More ›
by Linah Alsaafin US President Barack Obama arrived in the West Bank city of Ramallah by helicopter yesterday and gave yet another insipid speech. The Palestinian Authority’s security forces, collaborating with US forces, designated a huge security perimeter with the PA compound — the Muqataa — in… Read More ›
by John Glaser The current price tag is already at $2 trillion The US war in Iraq has cost $1.7 trillion with an additional $490 billion in benefits owed to war veterans. But the cost could grow to more than $6 trillion over the… Read More ›
Yale University is planning to train US Special Forces to detect lies by practicing on immigrants. The program strives to provide soldiers with such interview tactics by practicing on “someone they can’t necessarily identify with”. Starting as early as April,… Read More ›
Arrest and summons quotas for New York police were outlawed in 2010, and although solid evidence of such requirements has been difficult to come by, an audio recording obtained by a New York magazine indicates that the practice continues today…. Read More ›
Cost-Cutting to See 10,000 Withdraw This Year by Jason Ditz A Vatican-sized fortress along the Tigris River, the US Embassy to Iraq is the stuff of legends, a $730 million testament to the runaway overspending of the occupation era. Ten years after… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 