Once again, a U.S. government seems to be achieving exactly the opposite of what it says it is aiming for with its Cuba policy. Many of the more than 500 moderate Cuban emigrés taking part in the third Nation and Emigration Conference, hosted by the Cuban government...
More than seven million of the world's nearly 12 million refugees have been "warehoused" in dangerous border areas or urban slums without regard to their basic human rights for 10 or more years, according to the 2004 "World Refugee Survey" released Monday by the U.S....
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The United States and Britain are asking the U.N. Security Council to transfer political and administrative power to Iraq while holding back sovereign power that legitimately belongs to the Iraqi people, say critics of the move proposed Monday. A five-page draft...
Despite a tidal wave of bad news from the Iraq occupation they did so much to promote, neoconservatives are calling for U.S. President George W. Bush to pursue a military solution against resistance fighters there. "Crush the Insurgents in Iraq," screamed a column in...
There was more heavy fighting in Karbala early on Friday, after which the city fell eerily quiet. By Friday night into early Saturday morning, Mahdi Army militiamen had mysteriously ceased fighting, and the U.S. had withdrawn from sites like Mukhayyam mosque near the...
"Iraq is sitting atop a volcano," says a school teacher in Haditha. "The Americans are aggravating people here, trying to get a reaction. Everyone in this province is against them now!" Most Iraqis I speak with nowadays are seething with rage toward the occupiers of...
American Likudniks have been "examining" the consequences to our national security of an Israeli preemptive strike against certain Iranian facilities and programs, all now subject to an International Atomic Energy Agency Safeguards Agreement. Whenever President Bush...
The current Israeli campaign in Rafah, which has already killed at least 40 people, and which the U.N. Security Council has condemned in a 14-0 vote (with the United States abstaining), is merely the continuation of a decades-long program of ethnic cleansing that...
With the recent court-martial trial of one of the soldiers complicit in the widespread torturing of Iraqis in Abu Ghraib prison having come and gone, Iraqis see the newest promise made by the U.S. – to clean up their act regarding the treatment of detained Iraqis...
