Prime Minister Manmohan Singh begins his visit to the United States next week amidst indications that India is preparing to shed the last vestiges of its earlier policy of nonalignment and enter into a stronger, indeed unprecedented, "strategic partnership" with...
LONDON - An Iraqi connection was conspicuously missing from the first statements British Prime Minister Tony Blair made on the bomb blasts in London Thursday last week. But new developments suggest a powerful link between the British invasion and occupation of Iraq...
UNITED NATIONS - A group of U.S.-based human rights and trade union activists is urging the United Nations to investigate the alleged killings of innocent civilians by its peacekeeping troops in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince last week. The activists, who were...
I have to wonder what George Bush must be thinking as Iraq's elected Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari readies for his trip next week to Iran. I wonder if he's surprised that the two countries have recently inked a deal to have the Iranian government train the new...
Back in the 1950's comedienne Carol Burnett made her name as a nightclub performer with a song called "I Made a Fool of Myself Over John Foster Dulles." Americans had a big laugh over the spectacle of a celebrated entertainer singing a love song about U.S. President...
London Terror MysteryAwesome piece! I have one significant bone to pick; and that is the absence of analysis of the splits within Israel. These splits are as (in?)significant as those between neocons, paleocons and CIA/State Dept./Clinton/Scowcrofts. I believe that...
I don't remember how long I have been using Leon Hadar for his insights into the Middle East and the complications engendered by the prolonged and increasingly aggressive American interventions – indeed, as Leon puts it, the ongoing efforts to establish the...
KARACHI - Prominent citizens in this country are calling for a deeper understanding of the complex situation that led to the July 7 London bombings as British police confirmed that three of the bombers were of Pakistani descent and probably trained here or in...
Until very recently, an article titled "Hunt for Cops" might have described a city's effort to recruit more police officers. Sadly, that was not the message of an article in the July 3, 2005, Cleveland Plain Dealer, my hometown newspaper. "Residents of...
Concerns about "Islamic extremism" and disapproval over violence motivated by it are growing in both Muslim and non-Muslim countries, according to a major new survey that also found declining support for Osama bin Laden in most of the Islamic world, with the...
