13 December 2009 Kandahar, Afghanistan People are confused about the war. The situation is difficult to resolve even for those who are here. For most of us, the conflict remains out of focus, lacking reference of almost any sort. Vertigo
Watch the latest business video at FOXBusiness.com Fox News: Just a few months ago, nightlife in Iraq seemed to be back to its pre-invasion buzz. Patrons, both Iraqis and foreigners, filled clubs to share drinks and nights of dancing —
Absent from the big screen for over a decade now, Oscar-winning director James Cameron returns armed with a reported half-billion dollars, a story he’s been desperate to tell for 15 years, and the very latest in cutting-edge visual technology. The
Telegraph: His speech was an interesting mix of pieties and rather pointed omissions : defending the US actions in Afghanistan and the first Gulf War but not the invasion of Iraq under George W Bush. It contained one quite extraordinary
Telegraph: His speech was an interesting mix of pieties and rather pointed omissions : defending the US actions in Afghanistan and the first Gulf War but not the invasion of Iraq under George W Bush. It contained one quite extraordinary
Robert Gibbs: “The American people have watched for decades people playing the blame game. If the blame game put people to work, we would all be rolling money.”Robert Gibbs: “Given the fact that the largest — the largest driver in
Click Here for PollOnline Survey | Website Polls | Email Marketing | Crowdsourcing SoftwareView MicroPoll Inspired by Howard Zinn’s movement to hear the people’s version of history, Big Hollywood now asks the the people to challenge the powerful (Damon, WGA)
The History Channel is “making history” by airing “The People Speak,” a film based on the book by historian – and Marxist – Howard Zinn. More on Zinn in a minute. A number of actors who wish to be more
Meghan McCain at the Daily Beast: “I asked my mother if she would come see [“Brothers”] with me, but she said she didn’t want to give any money to a movie in which the preview showed the soldier coming back
It’s hard to say this, but say it I must: one of the reasons that so many current conservative films don’t get distribution or gain success is that they stink. You heard that right. Many of them simply suck. Yes,
AP: The White House is applauding Iraqi lawmakers’ vote Sunday to hold parliament elections early next year, a step that the U.S. hopes will ease the eventual withdrawal of American troops.
Politico: On “Fox News Sunday,” host Chris Wallace asked Petraeus whether Obama acknowledged that the surge was successful, and Petraeus said: “He did, in fact.” But Petraeus, now the commander of the U.S. Central Command, said during the Afghanistan deliberations,
A couple of years ago, a friend introduced me to John Ondrasik, aka Five For Fighting, and told me he was making a music video to help raise money for a military charity called Operation Home Front. I knew, right
EDITOR’S NOTE: President Barack Obama outlined his new strategy for waging his surge-and-retreat style of war in Afghanistan Tuesday night. Because that strategy will involve the expedited deployment of 30,000 more troops under the cloud of an announced timetable for
In recent years, I’ve published too many posts about members of the Armed Forces facing undeserved charges: First, it was the so-called “Haditha Marines” who faced trumped-up charges, thanks largely to idiots like Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) declaring them guilty
The budget for “Brothers,” per director Jim Sheridan, is $25 million, which probably doesn’t include marketing for promotion and … well, tell me again how Hollywood is driven by profit and not ideology? We’re a month away from 2010 so
Remember in 2003 when Secretary of State Colin Powell dramatically held up the vial of anthrax before the United Nations Security Council and exclaimed, “there can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the capability to rapidly
We debated whether to rank “The Messenger” as “abhorrent,” but there are some lightly positive things about it. The more we thought about this movie after seeing it, however, the more the bad content in it stood out and annoyed
Last week, as the national debt topped $12 trillion for the first time in U.S. history, one influential policymaker said, “I think it is important, though, to recognize if we keep on adding to the debt … that at some
This is not Yael, our beautiful Israeli sharpshooter. Security forbids us from posting her real name or image. But you get the idea, right? “How long did it take you to qualify as a sharpshooter in the IDF?” “Not too
The situation in Afghanistan is like a poker game. There are only three options for action: raise, call or fold. The President seems to be unable to pick one that doesn’t have Americans on both sides of the debate pulling
Nobody liked this movie when it was called “Body of Lies.” This is the most revealing trailer yet and thankfully we’re given a heads up as to what the story might really be about. Hollywood will look for cover with
16 November 2009 When New York Times journalist David Rohde was kidnapped last year in Afghanistan, the company engaged in a painstaking effort to squash the story. They succeeded in persuading major media who learned of the kidnapping to keep
[This is the latest segment in an ongoing series about Code Pink and its co-founder Jodie Evans. Click here to read earlier articles.] Following on the heels of their macabre Afghan war protest at a White House Halloween party that
