JERUSALEM - A historic vote in Israel's parliament to withdraw from Gaza has been overshadowed by serious concern over the health of the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat. Just days after the Israeli press unanimously described the highly contested vote in parliament...
The collapse and seemingly imminent demise of Yasser Arafat once again draws our attention to the plight of the Palestinian people at the hands of their Israeli occupiers: just as the Jewish state keeps an entire people captive in the twin concentration camps of Gaza...
JERUSALEM - Child abuse in Israel has gone up five-fold compared to the time before the Intifada, a new report says. Israeli society is paying a heavy price for the flare-up in the conflict with the Palestinians over the last four years, it emerged from the annual...
WASHINGTON - The United States has failed to meaningfully change its policies on the treatment of prisoners, opening the door to repeats of abuses like those at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and making an independent probe into torture by the U.S. military essential, says...
The Bush administration heralds Indonesia as the world's largest Muslim democracy and a crucial ally in the war on terrorism. Since 9/11 it has pushed Congress to allow it to bolster the Indonesian military with weapons and military training. For many years, the...
Groups representing Arab and Muslim-Americans are confused by what appear to be conflicting signals from the Bush administration – which claims to be making serious efforts to "build bridges" to these constituencies, but simultaneously continues to...
Scott Horton interviews journalist James Bovard, author of The Bush Betrayal, on life in the welfare-warfare state. Interview conducted on Oct. 16, 2004. Download MP3 Listen to Streaming Audio James Bovard has written for The Wall Street Journal, Playboy, the American...
The Cato Institute and the Objectivist Center on Friday offered a full-scale inter-libertarian debate on war. Topics included "Principles Guiding Military Intervention," "Has the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq Advanced America's Interests in the Middle...
RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's first run-in with the military ended up giving a boost to the movement to gain access to the secret archives dating back to Brazil's 1964-1985 military dictatorship. The Torture Never Again Group...
The tragicomedy of errors currently playing in Iraq took an ominous turn the other day when the ambush of 49 Iraqi National Guards by insurgents was blamed on … the U.S. And, no, the accuser wasn't Michael Moore, or Noam Chomsky, or any of the other demonized...
