OTTAWA (IPS) – Bowing to pressure from the public and his own parliamentary colleagues, Canada's prime minister has risked the ire of the Bush administration by rejecting Canadian participation in Washington's ballistic missile defense (BMD) system. Prime...
BEIRUT - Ever since the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri earlier this month, the radical Shi'ite group Hezbollah has been much sought after by politicians opposed to the Syrian presence. Hezbollah, a group that few took seriously when it...
"Stopping Iran short of achieving a nuclear weapons capability – by diplomacy if possible; by other means, if necessary – is a vital U.S. interest." That's essentially the message President Bush has been laying on the Europeans, but it's actually a...
Senator Russ Feingold, a Wisconsin Democrat, is on a collision course with President George W. Bush over how much leeway should be given to intelligence agencies and law enforcement to wage their "war on terror." Feingold has introduced three bills to limit...
It is difficult enough to try to figure out what President Bush's real goals are during his current whirlwind trip to Europe. It is more than possible that the trip has more to do with asserting imperial dominion – or at least reminding people that the United...
Let's look at two recent instances of political violence directed against a popular figure who has come to symbolize the democratic hopes of his people: the similarities between the death of Rafik Hariri and the attempted assassination and disfigurement of Viktor...
Indulging in speculation regarding the identity of Lebanese former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri's real assassins is of little value now. What demands urgent scrutiny is how his murder will play a large part in the remolding of Lebanon's role in the Arab-Israeli...
Despite the apparent decision by President George W. Bush against re-nominating him to the board of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), "anti-Islamist" activist Daniel Pipes is working as diligently as ever to protect the United States and the Western world...
LONDON - The conviction of three soldiers by a military court for abusing Iraqi prisoners is seen to have put the British military on trial. But reports on the way the trial has been conducted put Britain's judicial system itself on trial. The three soldiers were...
At Fort Bragg, the largest U.S. army installation in the world and home to the famed 82nd Airborne Division, the mood is not exactly buoyant. "There are people here who are being deployed for the third time," said Lou Plummer, a veteran with a son on active...
