Can China Keep Up the Pace? It's funny, but your "Can China keep up the pace?" can apply word by word to the US. The question in NOT whether can China keep up the pace, the REAL question for the 21 century is can the US keep up the pace of spending, spending...
Increasing Violence Threatens Iraqi Secularism
A pair of suicide bombings in the Kurdish area of Iraq and repeated demonstrations by supporters of a revered Shiite leader throughout the country has raised two nagging questions in the minds of many in the war-torn nation. Is the threat of terrorism beyond control...
US Policy of Preemption is Nothing New
While critics and supporters of the Bush administration's preemption doctrine have described it as unprecedented in U.S. diplomacy, the release of a 34-year-old memo advocating "regime change" in Chile shows the policy has been around for quite some time. The...
In the Balkans, Same Old Evil
After spending some time virtually unnoticed, the Balkans is creeping back into the limelight. Events in the peninsula continue to develop along the policy lines drawn with blood and iron over the past decade, demonstrating that the forces intent on establishing an...
Cui Bono on 9/11?
Cui Bono was the Latin legal term in old Rome for investigating a crime. Who benefited from 9/11 is the question? No one would accuse Bush of the strategy used by Roosevelt at Pearl Harbor to get America into the Second World War. But for others in...
Cui Bono on 9/11?
Cui Bono was the Latin legal term in old Rome for investigating a crime. Who benefited from 9/11 is the question? No one would accuse Bush of the strategy used by Roosevelt at Pearl Harbor to get America into the Second World War. But for others in...
The Great Bait-and-Switch
The latest Bush administration spin on the war is that they got the intelligence "wrong." The administration is passing the blame on to the CIA and the rest of the nations intelligence apparatus for supposedly feeding them bad information about the WMD threat....
Is the UN Returning to Iraq as US Front?
Pressed by the United States, the United Nations will send an electoral team to assess the feasibility of holding nation-wide elections in Iraq before the end of June. But some observers doubt the world body will be able to present an unbiased perspective of the view...
US Lawmakers Say Iraqi Council Plan Would Cut Women’s Rights
Iraq's governing council has quietly approved a plan to replace some existing legal rights of women with Islamic law or "Shariah," according to 44 U.S. lawmakers, who warn Washington of a "brewing women's right's crisis" in the U.S.-occupied country. In a letter sent...
Britain: Tories, Civil Rights Groups Lead Strong Opposition to Secret Trials
A proposal for secret trials for suspected terrorists has run into a wall of opposition in Britain. Civil rights groups, lawyers, the opposition Conservative Party and even Labour leaders have strongly opposed new proposals outlined by Home Secretary David Blunkett...


