GENEVA - As the United States began making the case in the UN Security Council this week for what its Ambassador John Bolton calls "painful consequences" if Iran continues with its controversial nuclear program, Washington is facing a familiar dilemma: What to do if...
Slobodan Milosevic, 1941-2006 In the morning hours of March 11, news came from the Scheveningen prison near The Hague: Slobodan Milosevic, former president of Serbia and Yugoslavia, was found dead in his cell. It was the second death in Scheveningen in a week; on...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
Like the Bourbons, famously described by Talleyrand as having learned nothing and forgotten nothing, the neocons have few regrets over the widening debacle in Iraq. Oh, some have published limited mea culpas, but these are merely extended exercises in excuse-making,...
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...
