http://www.independent.org/tii/antiwar/e040810.html
Civil Disobedience Increases in Northeast India
IMPHAL (Manipur) - As turmoil rages in India's troubled northeastern state of Manipur, with most government offices shutting down Monday, and employees boycotting work to support a public rebellion against a federal law giving the army unlimited powers, experts fear...
Bush Team on Defensive Over al-Qaeda Leak
One of the greatest coups in Washington's nearly three-year war against al-Qaeda has suddenly turned sour with reports the White House prematurely exposed the identity of a key source whose contacts and communication with the terrorist group's operational masterminds...
UN Says Its Absence in Iraq Could Jeopardize Fair Elections
UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations, which is supposed to prepare the groundwork for nationwide elections in Iraq next January, is unlikely to send an electoral team to supervise the polls unless its workers are heavily protected in the violence-prone country,...
Nodong No Joke?
A year ago some un-named US Government official "reported" that North Korea was working on a new missile that could perhaps be a threat to the US mainland. "We've had hints of this for several years, but it's only within the last year that we've been...
Bush Outing of Khan and the Faustian Bargain
David Johnston of the New York Times tried to get further details of the Bush administration outing of Pakistani double agent Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan. But he was stonewalled when he called his Bush administration contacts: "American officials contacted on Saturday...
Who ‘Outed’ Mohammad Naeem Noor Khan?
As the President of the United States and his reelection campaign invoked the specter of another terrorist attack on American soil implicitly warning against the dangers of switching horses in midstream other members of his administration were undermining...
And So It Goes
Turns out, according to the Washington Post, the information on which the latest terrorist scare is based is two to three years old. It was sold to the American public initially as if it were a brand-new discovery. It seems that the Bush administration is unable to...
The Revolution of 1800 and the USA PATRIOT Act
In this election year, there are significant parallels between the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 and the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. Enacted in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, the PATRIOT Act has augmented the power of federal authorities to pry into the...
Anguished Christians Flee to Syria
DAMASCUS - George Lutfi's voice trembled with emotion as thought back of Iraq and his family there. The 32-year-old deacon of the Chaldean Solaqa Church in Baghdad fled to Syria last week after the bombings at churches in Baghdad and Mosul that killed at least 11...


