UNITED NATIONS – As the United Nations gets ready for the opening of the 59th session of the General Assembly next week, Secretary-General Kofi Annan has asked the 191 member states to provide more than 30,000 troops for an anticipated surge in demand for peacekeeping operations in the world’s battle zones. "The number and scope …
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SANTIAGO – Just a few days before the 31st anniversary of Chile’s Sept. 11, 1973 coup d’etat led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the former dictator will be questioned by a judge in connection with the forced disappearance of opponents during his 1973-1990 regime. Pinochet will appear Thursday before Judge Juan Guzmán in a case in …
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Washington politicians are once again seriously considering imposing a national identification card – and it may well become law before the end of the 108th Congress. The much-hailed 9/11 Commission report [pdf] released in July recommends a federal identification card and, worse, a "larger network of screening points" inside the United States. Does this mean …
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BAGHDAD – How does a journalist report from a country like Iraq, where the dynamics of the situation and the danger level change so rapidly? That question is put often to journalists. There is no simple answer, but the following words come to mind: flexibility, caution, experience, judgment, and calm. Few journalists rely on a …
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MADRID – Representatives of more than 5,000 survivors of the Chilean dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet and the families of victims brought a lawsuit Monday against the former dictator’s executor, Oscar Aitken, in the Spanish capital. The legal action was filed in the court of Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzón, and urges him to investigate the …
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BRUSSELS – Turkey’s case for joining the EU improved with the publication of a report Monday setting out the advantages this would bring to the bloc. The report was published as European Union enlargement commissioner Guenther Verheugen noted in Ankara that the human rights situation within Turkey has improved. Concerns over human rights have long …
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NEW DELHI – It is an irony of history that Mahatma Gandhi, who led India to independence from British colonial rule in 1947, is now in a popularity contest with Veer Savarkar, arrested for the assassination of the "Apostle of Peace" but acquitted for lack of corroborative evidence. Gandhi was shot dead at a prayer …
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If not getting nuked in your jammies is high on your priority list, then maybe your best bet is to vote for John Kerry. Kerry has just endorsed last October’s Brit-French-German agreement with Iran, whereby they pledged to facilitate "the fullest possible exchange of equipment, materials and scientific and technological information for the peaceful uses …
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Editor’s note: Justin Raimondo is sunning himself on the beach today, but we’ve gotten permission from the kind editors of The American Conservative to reprint this article from the August 2 issue. But, hey, if you haven’t subscribed, you ought to: TAC is the best, most exciting antiwar magazine around – and they’re coming from …
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