Popular unrest has engulfed the Arab world, and as the despots fall, the question on nearly everyone’s mind: where is this going? This week at CU, four experts on the Arab world gathered to offer insights and background skipped over by the mainstream media on the current and historical context in Egypt and the Middle East.
The New York Times on Sunday ran a do-it-yourself federal budget piece, where readers could pick and choose to slash and save items from the nation’s basic spending and revenue columns to solve the politically unsolvable budget crisis. The…
ALBUQUERQUE– Searching to describe his Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms, Joseph Callan paused, his gaze momentarily distant.
“I see dead people,” he said, scoffing. “In crowds, I’ll think, ‘that’s Howzer!’ or somebody else,” the former U.S. Marine Corps sergeant explained. “I know they’re dead. I saw them dead. But I feel compelled to confirm it’s not them, to see them from another angle. So I’m ducking through a crowd to get another look at them and it’s always just some random (person).”
Lawmakers, including Republicans who have been in Washington for decades, are extremely concerned this year with the nation’s budget deficit. Part of that concern is driven by the tea party movement, which emphasizes fiscal discipline. For most Republicans and tea…
It’s like they’re in a strip club, according to Jeff Stein:
The Central Intelligence Agency has hired Xe Services, the private security firm formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide, to guard its facilities in Afghanistan and elsewhere, according to an
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U.S. Senate candidate Jane Norton is pushing controversial positions on terrorism and the war in Afghanistan in a foreign-policy statement posted at her website. The statement will likely give conservative voters concerned with the national debt and the authority…
CNN’s Michael Ware weighs in from Baghdad on the feeling there as U.S. troops begin pulling out of the country’s cities according to an agreement reached with the government in Baghdad. “It’s a really mixed bag,” he says. Ware’s face and voice and reaching descriptions actually describe the ambivalence he’s reporting really well.
I continue to be amazed that former Colorado Congressman Bob Schaffer, who is currently running for the U.S. Senate, fails to recognize that his actions and those of his most recent employer, Aspect Energy, undermined US policy in Iraq. The facts speak for themselves.
Events organized by the African Community Center draw crowds of local residents curious about the culture and customs of resettled refugees.
Under a special arrangement with “The Aaron Harber Show” and KBDI-TV Channel 12, Colorado Confidential readers are invited to submit questions to Aaron Harber to be posed to General David Petraeus, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, and U.S. Ambassador…
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