2 August 2010 WASHINGTON – The release over the internet of 92,000 US military field reports from Afghanistan by WikiLeaks has sent official Washington into an uproar. The leak story dominates the talk of this town and has pushed chatter about the steady weakening of the Obama presidency into the […]
26 July 2010 First, kudos to Britain’s new leadership team of Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg. They have embarked on a second Battle of Britain. Britain’s two youthful leaders have launched the biggest political revolution since 1832, one that aims to revive Britain’s battered economy, […]
Eric S. Margolis 24 May 2010 In history’s first major airborne assault, just after dawn on 10 May, 1940, 71 German paratroopers from Luftwaffe General Kurt Student’s elite 7th Fliegerkorps landed from ten gliders atop Belgium’s Fort Eben Emael. Huge, heavily armed, Eben Emael was […]
