San Francisco Chronicle

"I'm totally offended by this administration. I happen to think they're out of bounds on this. There's an important sea change in the world, and we have no idea what our policy is. It's a major national scandal in the making." By James Sterngold

Guerrilla Warfare, Sheltering by Civilians Plague U.S. and Russia

Last year, I heard a historian describe the Iraq war as Vietnam on crack cocaine. It was an apt comment. It took years, not months, before large numbers of civilians and soldiers questioned the sanity and cost of that war. By Ruth Rosen

An executive order can be a surreptitious way of making policy. It often makes an end-run around Congress and frequently escapes the media's attention as well. It is, in short, a way of making policy by fiat.

The war in Iraq, as one historian recently said, is like Vietnam on crack cocaine.

The Federal Communications Commission is moving closer to easing its media ownership caps, including regulations that now limit how many television stations a network may own, or whether a company can own a newspaper and a television station in the same city.

Nükleer Tehdit Dünyayı Uçurumun Kıyısına Getirdi. Tensions Highest Since Cold War -- Carnage, Environmental Destruction Could Reach Far Beyond Region by Keay Davidson.