by Lucinda Marshall     The Sandy Hook massacre isn’t just about the need for gun control laws, it is about a culture that condones the killing of children and teaches children that killing is okay. It is about a country addicted to violence on television and movie screens. It is about cuts in education spending. It is about giving the military free access to our schools where they regale our children with ...

By Lisa Lundquist A newly reported insider, or green-on-blue, attack on a small command post in Afghanistan in October 2011 raises questions about the US military's approach to the security risks posed by Afghan partnering with US troops, as well as the military's reporting on such attacks. The hitherto unreported green-on-blue attack took place on the night of Oct. 8, 2011 at a temporary US tactical comman ...

By Robert Bush New York: Several people, including children, were killed after an unidentified person opened fire in an elementary school in Connecticut on Friday with the shooter now believed to be dead. Reportedly, the shooter was aember of  an   extrmist group of Christian, who used to hate jews. The Hartford Courant reported that the shootings took place in a kindergarten classroom at the Sandy Hook Ele ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan KABUL—Taliban insurgents on Sunday launched a coordinated assault on a key coalition base in eastern Afghanistan, detonating a series of car bombs in an apparent attempt to break through the perimeter of the heavily fortified installation. The attack, which began shortly before 6 a.m. local time, started when insurgents set off three suicide car bombs outside the perimeter of Forwa ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan "The Palestinian Authority's one-sided step at the UN constitutes a gross violation of the agreements that have been signed with the State of Israel." In remarks at the opening of the cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today, "The response to the attack on Zionism and the State of Israel must reinforce and underscore the implementation of the settlement plan in ...

By Zaheerul Hassan According to international media , U.S.has decided to end war against al Qaeda and when sweeping legal powers ushered in after the September 11, 2001 attacks come to an end, the Pentagon’s top lawyer said. The address by Pentagon general counsel Jeh Johnson marked the first time a senior US official publicly raised the possibility of an end to the so-called “war on terror,” launched by fo ...

Seven Coptic Egyptians living abroad were sentenced to death Wednesday by a court in Cairo for their connection to an inflammatory anti-Islam film, the prosecutor's office said. The suspects are accused of being involved with the production of the film in California, said Adel Al Saeed, official spokesman for the prosecutor's office. Since the Egyptian citizens were tried in absentia, the sentence would be ...

[caption id="attachment_4205" align="aligncenter" width="606"] Left, U.S. Army Ranger Pat Tillman. Right, the spot in Afghanistan where he’s believed to have been shot and killed.[/caption] Just a few short miles from the Pakistani border, on a plateau above the Afghan village of Lawara, sits a small U.S. fire base named after army ranger Pat Tillman. Now, the United States is shutting down the base, accord ...