The Bush administration is pushing to ratify an international convention that civil libertarians say would pose serious threats to privacy rights at home and abroad. After delaying for about two years, U.S. President George W. Bush recently asked the U.S. Senate to...
When Israel's ambassador to Sweden vandalized a work of art that he found offensive on exhibition at Sweden's Museum of National Antiquities, Zvi Mazel did the world a service: he opened our eyes to Israel's descent into barbarism. Just as Israeli tanks bulldoze...
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Satellite television and the Internet have spurred Middle East media operations to become more critical and investigative but financial losses could catch up with some of the pioneers of this change, say regional media experts. "The Arab media have changed a lot in...
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan agreed Monday to send a team of experts to Baghdad to assess the feasibility of holding direct elections in Iraq this year, an idea the United States has already rejected as impracticable. ''The issue now is whether the technical,...
It seems likely that the Iraq war, aside from a few phrases about our brave men and women in uniform fighting for freedom and perhaps a mention of Saddam’s capture, will not figure too heavily in tonight’s State of the Union address. Even though Howard Dean,...
You know, I'm sure, that the Bush administration has greatly exaggerated the threat of terrorism. Those who employ the tactic of terrorism do so because they are weak. They have no army. They have no great popular following. Osama bin Laden was a crank living in the...
With apologies to Allen Ginsberg America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing. America eightyseven billion dollars January 19, 2004. Go feed your kids with your smart bombs. America when will you be angelic? When will you be worthy of your thousand...
The gang that gave us this rotten war is not only stupidly reckless, as this little story makes all too clear, but also totally corrupted by greed and power-lust. The greed part is abundantly illustrated by the story of what happened to one of the biggest media...
When both the press and the politicians resort to demagoguery, it's pretty hard to find the truth about anything, including weapons of mass destruction. It's been fashionable for some time now to scare people about biological weapons that could wipe out mankind. Let's...
