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Soon the tallies will be rolling in, and those who cast a vote for John Kerry in hopes of altering the U.S. foreign policy paradigm will have wasted their energy. What the mainstream media and others have failed to disclose this election season is that one of Senator Kerry’s key foreign policy advisors, Richard Holbrooke, … Continue reading “Kerry and Genocide: Know What You Are Voting For”

The re-emergence of Osama bin Laden in the final days of the presidential campaign was occasioned by a flurry of speculation: was OBL rooting for Bush? Or for Kerry? Good old American narcissism: it always comes to the fore. It’s always about us, now isn’t it? The Democrats lamented that this was the dreaded "October … Continue reading “The Truth Hurts”

BANGKOK – It may have one of the most vibrant media environments in Asia – with journalists having freedom to write just about anything – yet the Philippines ranks after Iraq as one of the deadliest places for reporters. Eight journalists have been killed in that Southeast Asian archipelago this year, one more than the … Continue reading “Asia Still Dangerous for Journalists”

America received a frightening jolt when the International Atomic Energy Agency announced that heavy-duty explosives perfectly suited for terrorist bombing attacks had gone missing from critical sites in Iraq. But a far more terrifying revelation was made in the Central Intelligence Agency’s publicly released Duelfer Report on Oct. 6. It took some effort, but anyone … Continue reading “For a Scary Halloween, Read the Duelfer Report”

QUETTA – A rocket attack on a main power transmission line linking two districts of Balochistan with the national power grid last week was not an isolated incident but part of a low intensity insurgency in the natural-resource-rich, yet least developed, southwestern province of Pakistan sandwiched between Iran and Afghanistan. Many militancy problems in Balochistan … Continue reading “Struggle for Resources Linked to Balochistan Unrest”

U.S. President George W. Bush is fortunate indeed that so much of the electorate has already made up its mind on its vote next Tuesday, because this week’s news from the "war on terrorism" has been unrelentingly bad. While the apparent looting – apparently right after last year’s U.S.-led invasion – of nearly 400 tons … Continue reading “Halloween Tidings From the ‘War on Terror’”

“If Bush loses, his conversion to neoconservatism, the Arian heresy of the American Right, will have killed his presidency. Yet, in the contest between Bush and Kerry, I am compelled to endorse the president of the United States. Why? Because, while Bush and Kerry are both wrong on Iraq, Sharon, NAFTA, the WTO, open borders, … Continue reading “Et Tu, Pat?”

On the eve of the election, our media elite are belatedly deluging us with important information. However, much of it is being delivered with neo-crazy ‘spin’. For example, the Washington Post tells us: “In the tumultuous first year after Sept. 11, 2001, President Bush confronted a deluge of classified threat reports about the spread of … Continue reading “Endorsing Neo-Craziness?”

"An uptick in airstrikes and other military moves points to an imminent showdown between U.S. forces and Sunni Muslim insurgents west of Baghdad – a decisive battle that could determine whether the campaign to bring democracy and stability to Iraq can succeed." The above quotation is the lead paragraph of an Associated Press dispatch. Note … Continue reading “A War We Can’t Win”

An FBI memorandum released Oct. 15 demonstrates a lack of consistency regarding agents’ knowledge of permitted interrogation techniques used at Abu Ghraib prison. Several Bureau special agents and translators told inspectors during an internal inquiry in May that, while visiting the infamous facility between October and December 2003, they saw detainees hooded or naked and … Continue reading “FBI Glossed Over Abu Ghraib Abuses”