Sarah Silverman Crowd: Too Cool For The Catskills
The other night I did a show at the New York Friars Club. The Friars do a lot of shows for a lot of good causes: to raise school tuition for underprivileged kids in the arts, for charities that help
The other night I did a show at the New York Friars Club. The Friars do a lot of shows for a lot of good causes: to raise school tuition for underprivileged kids in the arts, for charities that help
I know this is dumb, but how about a shout-out to the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan–from somebody, anybody.
Welcome to Profiles In Courage, a series of articles profiling the courage and honor from some of the many Wounded Heroes that Road 2 Recovery has come in contact with. It is an honor and privilege to have worked with
Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the Pentagon could send two more brigades to Afghanistan by late spring and a third brigade by late summer.
Vice President-elect Joe Biden met with political and military leaders in Afghanistan, a clear signal that Obama’s new administration plans to make the region an immediate priority.
I had silently moved through Hollywood as an actor and screenwriter for more than fifteen years before I left. Most of that time was spent amongst people I liked and some I even loved, and still do. However, none of
As a classical musician, I can claim a certain connection with the Hollywood creative industry as I’ve performed the solo violin tracks for a number of film projects. At the same time, I remain enough of an outsider that I
Fade In: Intertitle: Movies Are a Moral Landscape The Battle of Algiers, (1965) directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, a perennial favorite on college campuses, is hailed as a modern classic. Certainly the skillful use of black & white cinema verite is
The Department of Defense says a vehicle borne suicide bomber detonated himself in Khowst province eastern Afghanistan. In the process he killed 16, including 14 children, and wounded 58 others
Pakistan has started to redeploy thousands of troops to the Indian border from the tribal areas near Afghanistan, intelligence officials said Friday, raising tensions triggered by the Mumbai terror attacks.
AP: A group demanding that France withdraw from Afghanistan claimed responsibility.
The vehicles, including dozens of Humvees, were destined for U.S. and allied forces fighting in Afghanistan. This is the boldest attack so far on the critical military supply line through Pakistan.
AP: A new public service campaign encourages Iraq and Afghanistan veterans to log onto a new social networking site to obtain resources and communicate with each other.
NBC News Chief Foreign Corespondent Richard Engel brings an “extraordinary firsthand look” at the dangers faced by Viper Company.
The leader of Hamas in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, says that the global credit crisis is a punishment from God. The Hamas leader says God is punishing the United States and its allies, especially Britain, for their wars against Iraq, Afghanistan
Spoils of War: A Tour of Lara Logan’s Office from Broadcasting & Cable on Vimeo. NY Post: CBS news hottie Lara Logan could be in hot water for swiping souvenirs from the wreckage of bombed-out Baghdad. In a video profile
CNN: Gov. Sarah Palin met with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday, the first of nine major international leaders she will meet with in the span of just 30 hours.
AFP: Seven years after the attacks on the World Trade Centre, Afghanistan is again the frontline of the US-led “war on terror” with extremist unrest intensifying and Osama bin Laden is still on the run.
AP: President Bush is keeping the U.S. force strength in Iraq largely intact until the next president takes over, drawing rebukes from Democrats who want the war ended and a more sizable troop shift to troubled Afghanistan.
MSNBC: New raw video shows mourners and dozens of bodies in the aftermath of a U.S.-led raid, in which the U.N. claims up to 90 died, while the U.S. claims only seven were killed.
A military offensive in north-west Pakistan has driven at least 250,000 from their homes. Pakistani forces launched an offensive earlier this month against Islamist militant strongholds in the tribal region bordering Afghanistan – an area Washington and Islamabad regards as
BBC News: Columns of Russian tanks plunged the two neighbours into war as they filed into South Ossetia, marking the Kremlin’s first military assault on foreign soil since the Soviet Union’s Afghanistan intevention, which ended in 1989.
The tapes, the first to publicly show an interrogation session at the U.S. military prison, depicted Canadian Omar Khadr, picked up as a teenager and accused of killing a U.S. soldier in a 2002 firefight in Afghanistan, being questioned by
Barack Obama wants the U.S. military to refocus on the conflict in Afghanistan by sending more troops there from Iraq. John McCain says Obama’s plan will jeopardize progress.
A videotaped interrogation by Canadian officials of a weeping teenage Guantanamo Bay prisoner was released over the Internet Tuesday, in what is believed to be the first such video from the U.S. facility seen by the public. In the video,
