Face of Incompetence

Marcelle Hamilton, a police officer in the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service charged a 19 year old woman for murder following the death of her 4 year old daughter from neglect and abuse.Since the charges the laid, PC Hamilton shirked his duties of attending court and was...

The Night of the Generals by David Margolick, Vanity Fair

"The Night of the Generals The six retired generals who stepped forward last spring to publicly attack Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's handling of the Iraq war had to overcome a culture of reticence based on civilian control of the military. But while each man acted...

In the war of words, The Times is Israel's ally

"'AS SOON AS certain topics are raised," George Orwell once wrote, "the concrete melts into the abstract and no one seems able to think of turns of speech that are not hackneyed: Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of...

Extend judicial accountability in the Middle East to all

Legitimacy demands that any intervention in the internal affairs of a country, especially detaining and trying individuals accused of crimes, be based on an international consensus anchored in credible institutions, primarily the UN Security Council."Extend judicial...

Death and Dishonor: Bush's New Assassination Order

"The recent revelations about the virulent spread of death squads ravaging Iraq have only confirmed for many people the lethal incompetence of the Bush Regime, whose brutal bungling appears to have unleashed the demon of sectarian strife in the conquered land. The general...

Incompetence in Memphis

Voting in Memphis--which I had never visited before--relates a disturbing account of a dead voter in Shelby County still voting and a living voter whose vote was, possibly, not counted.  As the acrimony between parties becomes greater each election cycle, this is simple...

Failing schools; the hidden truth

I submit that a school where children are in charge is a failing school, by any reasonable measure. Conversely, those schools where the adults are in charge succeed, by any reasonable measure. There is a simple test. Is prohibited behavior permitted? A school where...

Department of Billion-dollar Bungling, Can this Mess be Cleaned Up?

How the Interior Department managed to lose about $2 billion of the public's money.Complaints are beginning to pile up against the U.S. Interior Department. And they're coming not just from outside critics but also from people in the agency. The problems surfacing are...

Whistleblower uses YouTube to get the word out

" Posted three weeks ago, the video describes what De Kort says are blind spots in the ship's security cameras, equipment that malfunctions in cold weather and other problems. "It may be very hard for you to believe that our government and the largest defense contractor...

Preventing Canada's Own 9/11

Canada’s intelligence services have long been ridiculed as being toothless and a far cry from their U.S. or British counterparts. But CSIS, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, has come through for us and prevented Canada’s own 9/11. By all accounts, the terrorist...