Can China Keep Up the Pace? It's funny, but your "Can China keep up the pace?" can apply word by word to the US. The question in NOT whether can China keep up the pace, the REAL question for the 21 century is can the US keep up the pace of spending, spending...
The Great Bait-and-Switch
The latest Bush administration spin on the war is that they got the intelligence "wrong." The administration is passing the blame on to the CIA and the rest of the nation’s intelligence apparatus for supposedly feeding them bad information about the WMD threat....
The Potemkin Commission
Bush's decision to appoint a commission to examine why government officials averred with certainty that Iraq had "weapons of mass destruction" underscores the political side of globalization, and, as such, is not too surprising. After all, he had a model on the other...
Is the UN Returning to Iraq as US Front?
Pressed by the United States, the United Nations will send an electoral team to assess the feasibility of holding nation-wide elections in Iraq before the end of June. But some observers doubt the world body will be able to present an unbiased perspective of the view...
Are We Fighting a Real War on Terror at All?
http://www.independent.org/tii/antiwar/e040204.html
What Are We Doing in Russia’s Neighborhood?
Napoleon III, Emperor of France, saw his opportunity. With the United States sundered and convulsed in civil war, he would seize Mexico, impose a Catholic monarchy and block further expansion of the American republic. In 1863, a French army marched into Mexico City....
East African Churches Slam US Pressure on Anti-Terror Bills
The Church in Africa is concerned about the U.S. pressure on African countries to introduce anti-terror legislation on pretext of fighting terrorism. The church is cautioning African governments against enacting such laws blindly, which it warns infringe on human...
Britain: Tories, Civil Rights Groups Lead Strong Opposition to Secret Trials
A proposal for secret trials for suspected terrorists has run into a wall of opposition in Britain. Civil rights groups, lawyers, the opposition Conservative Party and even Labour leaders have strongly opposed new proposals outlined by Home Secretary David Blunkett...
US Lawmakers Say Iraqi Council Plan Would Cut Women’s Rights
Iraq's governing council has quietly approved a plan to replace some existing legal rights of women with Islamic law or "Shariah," according to 44 U.S. lawmakers, who warn Washington of a "brewing women's right's crisis" in the U.S.-occupied country. In a letter sent...
Linking the Occupation of Iraq With the ‘War on Terrorism’
Reuters is one of the more independent wire services. So, a recent news story from Reuters – flatly describing American military activities in Iraq as part of "the broader U.S. war on terrorism" – is a barometer of how powerfully the pressure...