Canada's decision to hold talks with Washington on a proposed US missile defense program has breathed new life into the country's peace movement. The federal government agreed earlier this month to start official talks on joining the defense shield, which would use...
The U.S. effort to design a new generation of low-power nuclear weapons, approved in the defense budget for 2004, is politically, technically and militarily unjustifiable, say critics. The so-called "mini-nukes" have a potency of less than five kilotons of...
On Monday evening, as the returns from the Iowa Presidential Caucuses flooded in via CNN, C-SPAN, and other like outlets, it became all too clear to the casual viewer what the ramifications were. That Howard Dean, so-called "antiwar" candidate, had played himself....
Pardon me while I yawn – the presidential horserace usually has that effect on me, and this time around the emanations wafting up from the track are especially soporific. Here we are in the middle of a war that could bankrupt us, both financially and morally, and...
If only the gathering discontent over Iraq could be tidily relegated to the "against us" corner of the world; if only allies could be shocked and awed into consenting to U.S. policies; if only democracy could be established by the point of a gun, then President Bush...
Investigations into several suicide bombings in Iraq now centre on a man held in detention in Norway. Mullah Krekar, founder of the radical Kurdish Islamist group Ansar-al-Islam was ordered held in custody by an appeals court in Oslo last week. The...
North Korea has been using food as an instrument of political and economic control, says a major new report by Amnesty International (AI). While the country has been unable to produce enough food for all of its citizens since the collapse of the Soviet Union more than...
"Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land" (Jer 1:14) is a verse every Israeli pupil learns by heart. This biblical truth has never been more true than these days: the Syrian President, in a major threat to the Jewish state,...
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Ruhel Ahmed probably does not know yet, but one of the strongest initiatives yet on behalf of him and other Guantanamo Bay detainees was launched in London Tuesday. The families of Guantanamo Bay prisoners in Britain, France and other European countries came together...
