Key U.S. civil liberties and social justice groups marked International Human Rights Day Wednesday by launching a new "US Human Rights Network" dedicated to raising awareness about international human rights standards and focusing attention on the US failure...
Here We Go Again
A close read of President Bush's November addresses at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington and at the Whitehall Palace in London leads a traditionalist almost to despair. George Bush did not write this democratist drivel. This is the kind of messianic...
Now They’re After Putin
The decisive victory of Russian President Vladimir Putin's "United Russia" slate of candidates for the Duma is the occasion for a new round of Putin-bashing, with "human rights officials" condemning the election results as "a retreat from Russia's democratic reforms."...
Winning Over Arabs Using Israeli Tactics
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AIPAC Dinner Draws Peaceful Protest
"Who are we? AIPAC! What do we want? Apartheid! When do we want it? NOW!" This was one of the most accusatory cries to be heard from the group of nearly fifty activists that gathered on Broadway in downtown Oakland, California Monday night to protest the American...
'Antiwar.com Joins Ranks of Major Online Media' I'm not at all surprised myself, though very, very proud of you guys. If it weren't for Antiwar.com, I truly believe that at least some of the unbelievably vast amounts of disinformation being put out by the...
Russian Regression?
The Russian parliamentary election, in which maximum leader Vladimir Putin's United Russia party (which seems to stand mainly for "we're in power and handing out favors, so keep us in power") got 37.1 percent of the vote – which could translate into a working...
Carla del Ponte’s Pound of Serbian Flesh
One by one, Serbs are confessing to their guilt regarding Srebrenica. Are we witnessing another Stalin show trial, where the defendants were told, "if you sign, we won't shoot you"? Well, Stalin's victims signed and many were shot anyway, or...
Uzbek Leader Becoming Embarrassment to West
President Bush's recent vows to pursue a "forward strategy of freedom" in the Islamic world are in the spotlight as a close ally, Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov, comes under attack by human rights groups. Despite Western pressure, Karimov has outlawed...
Former Top US Security Officials Back Geneva Accord
Three days after the administration of President George W. Bush shrugged off the unofficial Israeli-Palestinian peace plan released last week in Geneva, a bipartisan group of eight former top U.S. national-security officials said they supported the so-called...