UNITED NATIONS - The 15-member Security Council, the only UN body wielding power to impose mandatory sanctions on the organization's 192 member states, is unable to help contain two ongoing crises primarily because of threatened vetoes by China and the United States....
The sudden opening Wednesday by Lebanon's Hezbollah militia of a second front in Israel's ongoing campaign against Hamas militants in Gaza presents the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush with an escalating crisis that, until now, it has preferred to...
Tuesday's announcement by the administration of President George W. Bush that detainees held by the U.S. military at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and elsewhere will be treated in accordance with the Geneva Conventions has provoked both hope and skepticism from human rights...
The era of "Cowboy Diplomacy" is over, writes Time magazine. The Bush Doctrine – "The world's worst regimes will not be allowed to acquire the world's worst weapons" – is being defied by Iran's Ahmadinejad and North Korea's Kim Jong-Il, with impunity. The...
"America, in this young century, proclaims liberty throughout all the world, and to all the inhabitants thereof." So spoke U.S. President George W. Bush in his second inaugural address last January, vowing to help build democratic institutions and strengthen...
With Ali Fadhil FALLUJAH - It could be called perhaps just another raid. Early in the morning on Sunday, June 18, U.S. military helicopters landed near the home of Sinan Abdul-Ilah al-Mashadani in the al-Jughaifi district of Fallujah. Within two minutes the doors of...
NEW DELHI - The failure in rapid succession, this week, of a satellite launcher and a new ballistic missile have shown up the technological and budgetary difficulties faced by India's space establishment – civilian and military. Hours after the $50 million...
U.S. and European officials have been saying for years that Iran is using its publicly declared nuclear program as a cover for a clandestine nuclear weapons program, but have never produced concrete evidence to support that argument. Since April, however, Western...
Andrew Sullivan really does have breathtaking cheek. In the Sunday Times [1], he has the brass neck to accuse the Bush administration of "incoherence" because they don't fancy taking on Kim, when they did take on Saddam (disastrously). Sullivan's piece is strongly...
The upcoming G-8 conference, scheduled for July 15-18 in St. Petersburg, is shaping up as the latest battleground in the developing conflict between Putin's Russia and the West. This summit is "really about Russia," says the BBC, and as far as the West is...
