NEW DELHI - The United States and India have taken yet another step toward finalizing the nuclear cooperation agreement they signed in July last year and more key lawmakers in Washington have expressed support for the deal. The agreement makes a special, one-time...
JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert could not have asked or hoped for much more – surprisingly enthusiastic, if still qualified, support from U.S. President George Bush for his West Bank withdrawal plan. His speech to both houses of Congress was...
Many secular Iraqis have been expressing their displeasure with the new Iraqi government that was sworn-in Saturday and introduced with much fanfare by politicians in Washington, Baghdad, and London this week. "All Iraqis know this government is totally...
Ehud Olmert – who assumed the office of prime minister of Israel earlier this month – has already met with President Bush at the White House and addressed a joint session of Congress. Now, you may remember that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, newly elected president of...
Bertie Wooster: Were you frightfully bright as a kid, Jeeves? Jeeves: My mother thought me intelligent, sir. Bertie Wooster: You can't go by that. My mother thought me intelligent! - from a Wodehouse novel, a rough recollection If I am one of the 200 million whose...
The mother of a murdered Belfast teenager has met U.S. diplomats to express her concerns about a Pentagon security contract in Iraq. Jean McBride's son Peter was shot dead in 1992 by two soldiers from the Scots Guards. Their commanding officer, Lt. Col. Tim Spicer, is...
Peace is boring. How else to explain America's seemingly incessant search for a new enemy? The Cold War might have been scary, but it provided an exciting challenge: contain the Evil Empire. Create an international coalition to defend the "free world." Exciting, but...
[This interview is the second of two installments. To read the first, click here.] TomDispatch: I'd like to turn to the issue of oil wars, energy wars. That seems to be what holds all this incoherent stuff together – minds focused on a world of energy flows....
Perhaps Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) didn't quite realize what she was getting into when she voted against the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006, so-called, which would cut off all aid to the Palestinians, impose economic sanctions, and make it impossible for...
Anticipating that the U.S. federal government would invoke the so-called "state secrets" privilege to block any lawsuit calling for the disclosure of details about allegations that phone companies shared customer records with the government's biggest spy agency, a...
