Three years of the Bush administration's "war on terrorism" appears to have reduced the appetite of the U.S. public and its leaders for unilateral military engagements, according to a major survey released Tuesday by the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations...
Police arrested Kamran Akhtar, a Pakistani national accused of living in the U.S. illegally, on July 20 while videotaping skyscrapers in Charlotte, N.C. Today, Akhtar remains in Mecklenburg County Jail in Charlotte waiting to see if he will be convicted of violating...
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Commentators in the mainstream media seem genuinely perplexed over the polite but notably unenthusiastic reception given to President George W. Bush's Sept. 21 address before the United Nations General Assembly. Why wasn't a speech that emphasized such high ideals as...
President George Bush's denial of the reality of Iraq is beginning to sound like a stand-up comedy routine. "Mr. President, the insurgency has spread to the whole country." "We're making great progress." "But Mr. President, the attacks against coalition forces have...
Faced with tens of thousands of dollars in fines and the prospect of future criminal charges for traveling to Iraq, one antiwar activist is speaking out, challenging the federal government's right to punish her for a 2003 visit to the Middle-Eastern nation. Judith...
MONTEVIDEO – Campesinos and indigenous people who live along the northern border of Ecuador are demanding that the government and the courts take effective action to stop the anti-drug crop spraying carried out under Plan Colombia right across the border,...
HELSINKI - The name of al-Jazeera appeared out of the blue, and before anyone knew it Arab media had gone global. Many in the Arab world call it the CNN of their world. If the CNN won the media war the first time in Iraq during Operation Desert Storm in 1991, an...
Will you be offered a choice without an alternative in November? By now you must know that the Republican Party has been taken over by the neo-crazies, hell-bent on establishing American Hegemony in the Middle East on behalf of our "allies." But maybe you...
Out of almost 1,400 words, it was the following short sentence that attracted almost all the readers' reactions to my previous column: "The Arab states and the Palestinians have in fact acknowledged Israel's right to exist in peace, if it withdraws from the occupied...
