NEWARK, Delaware - Over 650 foreign affairs specialists in the United States and allied countries have signed an open letter opposing the Bush administration's foreign policy and calling urgently for a change of course. The letter was released today by Security...
On the eve of the third anniversary of 9/11, the U.S. House of Representatives – by an overwhelming, bipartisan majority of 406-16 – passed a resolution linking Iraq to the al-Qaeda attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. This comes despite...
Word that the administration is holding talks this week with its European allies on their proposal for a deal with Iran on safeguarding its nuclear program is raising new questions about whether President George W. Bush is easing his confrontational approach to the...
While the third and last presidential debate wasn't supposed to be about foreign policy, it is the overriding issue in this election – and impossible to separate from supposedly "domestic" issues, such as taxes and homeland security. Wars, after all, cost money:...
Larry Franklin's October SurpriseJustin: First, you cannot use the words fundamentalists and evangelicals interchangeably; they are not. Evangelicals are spirit-filled Christians who know, because of their daily walk with God, that the most important thing in all...
BANGKOK - Of the many initiatives undertaken to forge lasting peace between South Asia's squabbling neighbors, none can challenge the promise of Iran's proposed natural gas pipeline to India traversing through Pakistan. New Delhi and Tehran first signed a memorandum...
The environmental group Greenpeace has echoed a call by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to permit the UN watchdog to return in force to Iraq to track nuclear-related materials looted after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion there and help protect and treat the...
It was only a matter of time before someone said it: "[A]n old question haunts the continent: Where should the borders of Serbia lie?" So began Roger Cohen's commentary in the International Herald Tribune on Tuesday, titled "The Serbian Question, Still...
BOGOTA - Local secretariats of finance, roads and health – "that's where the money is, that's where the show is run," a member of a paramilitary militia in Colombia can be heard saying in the taped telephone conversation. The wiretapped conversation...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - As Afghanistan gets ready to start counting votes Wednesday from a historic presidential election, after several key candidates threatened to declare the poll illegal, Afghan refugees living in Pakistan were confident incumbent president Hamid...
