NEW DELHI - Indian leaders are finding, to their dismay, that they confront far tougher choices in implementing a controversial nuclear agreement they signed with the United States than they had bargained for. These choices pertain to a sequence of steps New Delhi...
Female GI Stands Against War as She Faces Deployment
Fort Benning, GA - Army National Guard Specialist Katherine Jashinski, on active duty with the 111th ASG since January of this year, will make a public statement Thursday against war as a conscientious objector in the face of orders to participate in weapons training...
What Are They Cooking Up in the White House?
We know one thing about the Bush administration: despite the president's Veterans Day speech on the "irresponsibility" of "rewriting history," he and his top officials possibly the greatest gamblers in our history had no hesitation about writing their...
In Praise of ‘Virtual States’
If you are like me and you've been following the news on a regular basis for a while, say, 20 or 30 years, the chances are that whether it was 1977 (when you got married), 1986 (when your kid was nine years old), or 2003 (when the grandkid was on the way), you were...
Republicans Cut and Run from Iraq and Bush
Although he dislikes foreign travel and formal summits, U.S. President George W. Bush must be relieved to be spending this week as an honored guest in several Asian capitals. According to the stereotype, Asians are unfailingly polite. The same can no longer be said...
The Senators’ Rebellion
The recent Senate vote to require regular reports from the White House detailing all the wonderful "progress" we're making over there was more reflective of a desire to cover their asses as election time approaches than it was of growing antiwar sentiment in the U.S....
Hillary in the Holy Land
There really is no way of getting around it. Senator Hillary Clinton may well be future presidential material after all. Sen. Clinton, along with her husband Bill, paid a visit to Israel this past weekend. The former President Clinton was a featured speaker at a mass...
Other Parties? Whoops!
Well, Judith Miller is no longer spreading neo-crazy lies and misleading statements on the front page of the New York Times. However, David Sanger is still on the job: "The Bush administration and three European allies have approved a new offer to be made to Iran...
Congress Sends Mixed Signals on Detainee Rights
As U.S. President George W. Bush's poll numbers plummet, questions about how his administration "sold" the invasion of Iraq to the public and its treatment of prisoners seized in the "war on terror" continue to dog the beleaguered president,...
The New al-Qaeda: More Dangerous Than the Old Version
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