It's ironic that the Mainland demands only patriots may rule in Hong Kong and Taiwan – patriots meaning real Chinese and not bastardized versions corrupted by Western interference; Chinese who support the Party. 5000 years of culture is a term used often here to...
Is there a bigger, fatter, more egregious hypocrite on God's green earth than David Horowitz? What else can we call someone who mounts a campaign for censoring campus speech – in the name of "academic freedom"? According to Horowitz's own website, Colorado...
If Walter Lippman, perhaps the most influential U.S. press critic and foreign-policy columnist of the 20th century, were alive today, chances are he would shake his head knowingly and mutter something like, "Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose." ("The more things...
Haiti is devolving into what conventional political observers call anarchy, in the sense of being a place where chaos, disorder and violence reign supreme. For better or worse – mostly for worse – as has been the case for most of its 200-year history as a...
The United States is pressing the U.N. Security Council to endorse a draft resolution that would allow the use of force against "entities and individuals" suspected of trying to develop, possess or transfer weapons of mass destruction (WMD), diplomats and...
Tony Blair and George W. Bush want the issue of spying at the United Nations to go away. That's one of the reasons the Blair government ended its prosecution of whistleblower Katharine Gun on Wednesday. But within 24 hours, the scandal of U.N. spying exploded further...
Critics are condemning as irresponsible and illegal the Bush administration's recent proposal to increase the budget for the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Dump in western Nevada State despite unresolved safety issues and legal challenges. After more than two decades of...
UN premises are inviolable – and any country defying that sanctity is guilty of an illegal act, UN spokesman Fred Eckhard said Thursday, responding to assertions that intelligence officers spied on Secretary-General Kofi Annan. "We have seen today's media...
Three days before the Iraqi Governing Council (IGC) is due to ratify a Fundamental Law to guide the country's transition until a permanent constitution can be drafted, 16 Democratic members of Congress have asked President Bush to urgently clarify its strategy for...
An interview conducted by Saul Landau on "Hot Talk" radio Cal Poly Pomona. Check out his other interviews Recorded February 17, 2004 High Bandwidth (DSL or Cable modem): Low Bandwidth (dial-up modem):Karen Kwiatkowski recently retired from the Pentagon where she was a...
