A few days ago, Taiwan Premier Yu Shyi-kun spoke with think tank scholars at a breakfast gathering in New York. When the conversation turned to China, the Premier was solemn: “If the United States can help overthrow the regime of Saddam Hussein to establish democracy...
An excerpt from his Senate statement for Vietnam Veterans Against the War on April 22, 1971. Mr. Kerry: Thank you very much, Senator Fulbright, Senator Javits, Senator Symington, Senator Pell. I would like to say for the record, and also for the men behind me who are...
BAGHDAD - Mohammad Rabat is a farmer in his seventies. He lives with his wife and nine children in a single story cement house in what has come to be known as the Green Zone. The Green Zone, or the International Zone as it is also called, is a three square mile area...
I'm going to vote against the president because I think he is dangerously inept and quite likely to crash the economy, get us into a bigger war or both. There is nothing personal about it. President George Bush is an affable man. He was probably fine as a governor in...
PARIS - The French ban on Muslim headscarves at school was to have been a domestic, if controversial move when it came into force this week. But the abduction of two journalists over the issue has turned it into an international crisis. The so-called Islamic Army in...
KATHMANDU – A haunting specter grips Nepal as the Himalayan kingdom mourns the deaths of 12 of its workers murdered in Iraq. There is a strong possibility that the relatives of the dead will never see the return of the bodies of the victims, and this has incensed...
It feels good when a public official, especially the president of the United States, speaks the truth, which is what happened on Monday when President George W. Bush uttered words that The Future of Freedom Foundation has been publishing ever since 9/11 — “I...
You might want to re-read Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack now that you know the FBI has been attempting for at least two years to determine whether or not the development of that plan and/or associated National Security Presidential Directives (NSPD) involved any acts...
JERUSALEM - Three yellow Palestinian taxi vans stand forlornly near the checkpoint between Israel and the West Bank a day after Tuesday's suicide bombing in the city of Beer Sheva. The attack caused 16 fatalities, and Israel closed the approach to the city for...
NAIROBI - The crisis in the Sudan's western region of Darfur has overshadowed the peace process in the south of the country, where more than 2 million people have been killed since 1983. "[Darfur] is receiving a lot of attention and it's like the peace process...
