It's happening all over the country. Union workers in both the public and private sectors have a target on their backs. Politicians are taking aim, determined to destroy the last remaining force dedicated to working people: the labor movement.

Several recently declassified documents compiled here, dating mostly from the first year of the Bush administration, provide new insights into the lead-up to the war.

An AP writer has a provocative thesis: the availability of porn in Iraq mirrors the level of freedom and security there. Is he right? And what would that look like?

"As the United States works toward a drawdown of combat forces in Iraq by this August, and a withdrawal of all troops by 2011, military commanders and diplomats are scrambling to make sure that the Iraqi government will be ready to take over.

SADDAM Hussein's look-alike cousin Iraq's former Defense Minister Ali Hassan Al-Majid - better known as 'Chemical Ali' - has been sentenced to death for "crimes against humanity" that he was found to have committed in 1988 against residents of the Iraqi-Kurdish town o …