Three days before the Iraqi Governing Council (IGC) is due to ratify a Fundamental Law to guide the country's transition until a permanent constitution can be drafted, 16 Democratic members of Congress have asked President Bush to urgently clarify its strategy for...
UN premises are inviolable – and any country defying that sanctity is guilty of an illegal act, UN spokesman Fred Eckhard said Thursday, responding to assertions that intelligence officers spied on Secretary-General Kofi Annan. "We have seen today's media...
Critics are condemning as irresponsible and illegal the Bush administration's recent proposal to increase the budget for the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Dump in western Nevada State despite unresolved safety issues and legal challenges. After more than two decades of...
Tony Blair and George W. Bush want the issue of spying at the United Nations to go away. That's one of the reasons the Blair government ended its prosecution of whistleblower Katharine Gun on Wednesday. But within 24 hours, the scandal of U.N. spying exploded further...
Releasing its annual "Country Reports" on human rights practices around the world Wednesday, the U.S. State Department claimed Afghanistan and Iraq as two major breakthroughs in an otherwise bleak human rights picture. In an introductory overview, the report singled...
Three days of hearings into the legality of the barrier being built by Israel in the West Bank ended before the International Court of Justice here Wednesday just as they began – with passionate legal arguments inside, and highly emotional protests outside. The...
Faced with its justifications for the troublesome conquest of Iraq regularly being torn to shreds, it seems that Washington is poised to make a tactical retreat from the Middle East. Some serious analysts are interpreting this as the sign of Empire's coming implosion,...
An interview conducted by Saul Landau on "Hot Talk" radio Cal Poly Pomona. Check out his other interviews Recorded February 17, 2004 High Bandwidth (DSL or Cable modem): Low Bandwidth (dial-up modem):Karen Kwiatkowski recently retired from the Pentagon where she was a...
Amid all the current recriminations, investigations, and political circumlocutions surrounding those missing "weapons of mass destruction," another sort of WMD – one far closer to home – still casts its sinister shadow over an uncertain future. The anthrax...
Asian governments should embrace the global free trade system as a way to lift the region's millions out of abject poverty, senior development officials told a high-level conference here Monday. Any cooperation between countries across Asia "should pay particular...
