Foreign policy, legal, and human rights authorities are raising serious questions about the credibility of the U.S. State Department's annual report on human rights, released last week. Noah S. Leavitt, an attorney who has worked with the International Law Commission...
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With Isam Rashid BAGHDAD - The unrest in the wake of Iraq's failure to form a new government is making life particularly difficult for women. "There is chaos in Iraq now, and there is danger everywhere," 27-year-old Nora Ahmed told IPS. The situation has gone "from...
March 20 is the third anniversary of the Bush regime's invasion of Iraq. U.S. military casualties to date are approximately 20,000 killed, wounded, maimed, and disabled. Iraqi civilian casualties number in the tens of thousands. Iraq's infrastructure is in ruins. Tens...
As a signatory to the Treaty on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Iran is required to subject all "source or special fissionable material" being produced, processed, or used in any principal facility to verification – "in accordance with the Statute of the...
And so their great scheme, the subjugation and democratization of Iraq, has failed; and all that is left for them is the fate due all fanatical ideologues – to either desert the sinking ship like rats, or else fight among each other like scorpions. They have sown...
In the first of a two-part dispatch, "Disintegrating Iraqi Sovereignty," Michael Schwartz explored Iraq's missing "sovereignty." Most of us take sovereignty for granted, but under the pressure of invasion, occupation, destruction, and arrogance as well as increasing...
Slobodan Milosevic is characterized in the obituaries as the "Butcher of the Balkans." If that is the story you want to read about, please go to almost any other media outlet and read it again and again. Some are now suggesting that death is Milosevic's...
Slobodan Milosevic is characterized in the obituaries as the "Butcher of the Balkans." If that is the story you want to read about, please go to almost any other media outlet and read it again and again. Some are now suggesting that death is Milosevic's...
On March 11, the former Serbian leader and president of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic, died in his prison cell at The Hague, where he had been on trial for four years and one month for war crimes and genocide. The Serbian Socialist Party leader Zoran Andjelkovic...
