I rise in strong opposition to this incredibly dangerous legislation. I hope my colleagues are not fooled by the title of this bill, "Declaring genocide in Darfur, Sudan." This resolution is no statement of humanitarian concern for what may be happening in a country...
On the same day the "Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States" [pdf] was released, President Bush signed into law the Project Bioshield Act of 2004. Project BioShield is authorized to spend $5.6 billion over a five-year...
Linda Ronstadt dedicated a song to Michael Moore and his film Fahrenheit 9/11 and got the boot from the Aladdin Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. They treated her shabbily, escorting her out of the building without allowing her to return to her room. This came after...
The newly reconstituted Committee on the Present Danger (CPD), the War Party's latest high-profile front group, is off to a rocky start. In the face of incoming fire from independent journalist Laura Rozen, what the CPD's founders characterize as "an army of...
DUBAI - The ordeal of a Filipino truck driver freed by militants after his country withdrew its troops from Iraq has not deterred Philippine migrant workers from making their way to the occupied Middle Eastern country through the United Arab Emirates, despite an...
OTTAWA - Canada's broadcast regulator has approved Qatar-based news channel al-Jazeera for the country's digital cable TV market, but with censorship rules that are so stringent it is unlikely to be carried in this country, say television executives. The Canadian...
Vice President Dick Cheney can toss around the F-word all he wants in response to the criticism directed at him as a result of his close ties to Halliburton, the company he headed from 1995-2000, but he can't hide from the truth. It was Cheney who urged Congress in...
President Bush's neoconservatives have announced that they are relaunching the Committee on the Present Danger. The new CPD will be totally different from the original. I was a member of the Committee on the Present Danger. It was a bipartisan private organization...
WASHINGTON - Capping 18 months of work, the bipartisan 9/11 Commission released its 567-page report here Thursday, and challenged President George W. Bush and Congress to make sweeping changes to the structure of the U.S. intelligence community. The report's central...
KARACHI - For no clear reason, the atmosphere around the resumption of the long-delayed India-Pakistan peace dialogue is marked by effusive official optimism on either side, and an aura of hope and expectation among both peoples. The two governments, whose foreign...
