SANTIAGO - Just a few days before the 31st anniversary of Chile's Sept. 11, 1973 coup d'etat led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the former dictator will be questioned by a judge in connection with the forced disappearance of opponents during his 1973-1990 regime. Pinochet...
Eugene Koontz's backtalkEugene Koontz misses the point. Most people don't pay close attention to the details of state policy because we're biologically designed for a way of life in which all the major decisions affecting our lives are made in small primate social...
In 1987, Jonathan Pollard, U.S. Navy intelligence analyst, was imprisoned for life for selling a roomful of U.S. secret documents to Israel. Tel Aviv refused to return them. At the Clinton-Netanyahu summit at Wye River, Pollard became a subject of contention....
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NEW DELHI – It is an irony of history that Mahatma Gandhi, who led India to independence from British colonial rule in 1947, is now in a popularity contest with Veer Savarkar, arrested for the assassination of the "Apostle of Peace" but acquitted for...
Washington politicians are once again seriously considering imposing a national identification card – and it may well become law before the end of the 108th Congress. The much-hailed 9/11 Commission report [pdf] released in July recommends a federal...
BAGHDAD – How does a journalist report from a country like Iraq, where the dynamics of the situation and the danger level change so rapidly? That question is put often to journalists. There is no simple answer, but the following words come to mind: flexibility,...
MADRID - Representatives of more than 5,000 survivors of the Chilean dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet and the families of victims brought a lawsuit Monday against the former dictator's executor, Oscar Aitken, in the Spanish capital. The legal action was filed in...
BRUSSELS - Turkey's case for joining the EU improved with the publication of a report Monday setting out the advantages this would bring to the bloc. The report was published as European Union enlargement commissioner Guenther Verheugen noted in Ankara that the human...
Editor's note: Justin Raimondo is sunning himself on the beach today, but we've gotten permission from the kind editors of The American Conservative to reprint this article from the August 2 issue. But, hey, if you haven't subscribed, you ought to: TAC is the best,...
