Month: June 2007

NEW DELHI – High official-level talks between the United States and India to clinch the nuclear cooperation deal initialed in July 2005 have failed to narrow mutual differences and produce an agreement. The negotiations, held last week between the US team led by undersecretary of state R. Nicholas Burns, and the Indian side led by … Continue reading “India: Impasse Over Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Rights”

Updated at 12:38 a.m. EDT, June 10, 2007At least 94 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 130 wounded during violent attacks, including a suicide truck bombing near Hilla and mortar fire on a U.S. detention center. Eleven people were kidnapped in Khalis. Despite repeated warnings, Turkey continues to escalate activities on the border. Also … Continue reading “Saturday: 2 GIs, 94 Iraqis Killed; 130 Iraqis Wounded”

Well, it looks as if Russian President Vladimir Putin has snookered President Bush – and most West European leaders as well – during the run-up to the G-8 meeting in Germany. After purposely raising the temperature of his rhetoric and suggesting that he might start re-aiming some of Russia’s missiles toward Europe, he turned up … Continue reading “What’s Up With Putin?”

The US Justice Department is actively investigating allegations of forced labor and other abuses by the Kuwaiti contractor now rushing to complete the sprawling 592-million-dollar US embassy project in Baghdad, numerous sources have revealed. Justice Department trial attorneys Andrew Kline and Michael J. Frank with the civil rights division have been contacting former employees of … Continue reading “Blood, Sweat and Tears at New US Embassy”

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Until US federal and state officials called a press conference in New York last weekend to tell the world that four Caribbean nationals were implicated in an alleged plot to bomb fuel tanks and infrastructure at New York’s JFK Airport, most people in the tourism-dependent region saw terrorism as a US problem, … Continue reading “Is JFK Terror Plot for Real? West Indians Wonder”

Just weeks before the first primary election in 1968, Governor George Romney, father of Mitt Romney, abandoned his once promising bid for the GOP presidential nomination. Why? Well, the war of aggression against North Vietnam, launched in 1964 by President Lyndon Johnson on what he knew to be false pretenses – the so-called Gulf of … Continue reading “Another ‘Brainwashed’ Romney?”

In reading an excellent book, Satanic Purses: Money, Myth and Misinformation, by R.T. Naylor, I suddenly realized why Adolf Hitler was so popular during the first years of his administration. The funny thing is that the book is not about Hitler or Germany, but about the U.S. and the bogus war on terror. It is … Continue reading “Don’t Trust Government”

In a flagrant attack on the longstanding international legal principle that it is illegitimate for any country to expand its territory by military means, the U.S. House of Representatives, by an overwhelming bipartisan majority, passed House Concurrent Resolution 152 congratulating Israel for its forcible "reunification of Jerusalem" and its victory in the June 1967 war. … Continue reading “Jerusalem: Endorsing the Right of Conquest”

These days, conventional wisdom in Washington, DC holds that the Iraq War has been lost, that the Bush Doctrine of promoting unilateral regime change and spreading democracy in the Middle East has failed, and that the neoconservative ideologues who have dominated U.S. foreign policy since 9/11 are "out" while the realists are "in." But the … Continue reading “Time to Ignore the Middle East?”

The South Korean reporter Cha Han-phil stirred up a hornet’s nest with a post on his personal blog about "Shameless Chinese People." In the post he describes a scene on a train ride through Henan province that leads him to conclude Chinese people "lack public morality." For his comments, Cha was labeled a racist. He … Continue reading “Pride and Prejudice in Chengdu”