The problem with Ukraine's "orange revolution" was perhaps symbolized by the country's entry into the Eurovision Song Contest, Greenjolly's "Razom Nas Bahato" (Together We Are Many). Of course it's just a coincidence that the song was the election campaign theme of...
WASHINGTON - Stung by Amnesty International's condemnation of U.S. detention facilities in Iraq and elsewhere overseas, the administration of President George W. Bush is reacting with indignation and even suggestions that terrorists are using the world's largest human...
Is Bush a Sith Lord? Although I completely agree with the premise of the article "Is Bush a Sith Lord?," I am concerned that you claimed that child protective services framed parents to justify a large bureaucracy. I work in public social services. We are devoted...
NEW DELHI - While India denies that its security agencies helped arrange meetings between a top Nepali Maoist leader and its political establishment, analysts welcome dialogue with the rebels as a key to ending a seemingly intractable crisis in the neighboring...
"The lessons we should learn from all The fighting in the days of old When providence bestowed divine The sanctuary purified Let lightning circle all you hold And don't uproot the olive grove." - Mirah, "Jerusalem" I think it is finally time we stood up and thanked...
The mayhem continues in Iraq, with at least 40 people dead today including five U.S. soldiers in Diyala province, as the meltdown of the failed U.S.-led occupation continues. Two suicide bombers detonated themselves after walking into a crowd of police officers in...
To honor those who have died in Iraq, Democracy Rising interviewed the founder of Gold Star Families for Peace – an organization made up of families who have lost members to the Iraq War. Cindy Sheehan lost her son, Casey, to the war/occupation and founded Gold...
Dear Senators and Congressmen: My father loved his country. In 1943, he volunteered for the Army Air Corps, and at age 19 became a B-17 aircraft commander. He flew 25 missions into the heart of Germany to help defeat the Third Reich and protect the American way of...
The headline of this New York Sun article by Eli Lake on the progress of the case [.pdf] against Lawrence A. Franklin, a Pentagon analyst accused of handing over sensitive information to Israel, has got to take the cake for sheer gall: "Pentagon Analyst In Israel Spy...
KATHMANDU - Nearly four months after the royal coup in Nepal, the Indian press this week unveiled secret links between India's intelligence services and Nepal's Maoist rebels. But curiously, the revelations have failed to kick up a raging controversy in Nepal. On...
