With the presidential election coming down to the wire, the possibility of a revived military draft is looming as a potentially decisive factor in the outcome. While President George W. Bush and his fellow Republicans vehemently reject any suggestion that a draft,...
Seven months after the horrific pogrom that raged across the occupied Serbian province of Kosovo, the occupiers are poised to lead its perpetrators a step close to their coveted ultimate prize. Elections scheduled for Oct. 23 were designed to establish the Albanian...
Antiwar Arguments for WarGood, well-reasoned article but no mention of our relationship to Israel as a major cause of anti-Americanism in the Middle East!~ Tim McCormickAnthony Gregory replies:Thanks for the kind words. I don't think the Israel factor needs to be...
Thirteen colonies fought off one of the most powerful, expansive and brutal empires in the history of the world in the late 18th century, creating a new nation based on anti-imperial principles and the notion that people have a right to self-determination. For about a...
BANGKOK - By dismissing the country's prime minister in an unprecedented manner, Burma's military leader Senior Gen. Than Shwe has affirmed that the junta's hardliners will stop at nothing to retain their grip on power. Few Burma watchers expected Gen. Khin Nyunt's...
Before Operation Iraqi Freedom, one of the most compelling symbols of the depravity and danger of Saddam Hussein was the uncompleted Baghdad Metro. Saddam was believed to have launched the multi-billion-dollar subway project in 1983 to alleviate traffic congestion in...
Friday, Israel said it was ending a two-week offensive in the Palestinian Gaza strip, in which Israeli soldiers killed over 100 Palestinians, many of them noncombatants. Palestinians killed at least five Israelis during the same time period, two of whom were...
Ron Suskind, former Wall Street Journal reporter and author of The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill, has a piece in last Sunday's New York Times Magazine that is the talk of the internet, and with good reason: it is...
French political scientist Pierre Rosanvallon was not describing the Bush administration when he wrote, "[They] speak like Tocqueville but continue to think like Robespierre." Had he been referring to the Bushies rather than to France's elites, he might have said that...
GENEVA - More than 100,000 refugees from the small Himalayan nation of Bhutan continue to languish in camps in Nepal, while neither talks between the governments of the two South Asian kingdoms nor the international community have come up with any plan to put an end...
