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"For 60 years, my country - the US - pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Mid East," Rice declared in June 2005 at the American University in Cairo, in a widely noted speech that encouraged democracy act
The Bush administration is preparing to ask Congress to approve an arms sale package for Saudi Arabia and its neighbors that is expected to total $20 billion at a time when officials contend that the Saudis are playing a counterproductive role in Ira
Congressional negotiators have agreed on legislation that would tie US aid to Pakistan to significant progrss by Islamabad in cracking down on al-Qaeda, the Taliban and other militants, congressional sources said on Thursday.
The United States is having major difficulty in finding a new forward deployment base for its New African Command.
Fidel Castro's first no-show in 48 years in Cuba's national holiday fanned doubts he will ever retake the helm from his brother Raul Castro, who has renewed his offer of talks with the US. "It's over for Fidel Castro as president an
U.S. congressional rejection of a free trade agreement with South Korea would deliver a severe blow to U.S. standing in Asia, a top U.S. trade official said. "If we succumb to protectionism within our own borders and allow KORUS (Korea-U.S free
Globalists often label those of us who resist their schemes as “isolationist.” Yet it is the globalists themselves who promote policies that isolate our nation from the rest of the world.
The pieces are in place, the trap is set, all they need is a match: PNAC, Chertoff, Gulf of Tonkin, Cheney pushing Bush, Congress on a break, Bush's new Exec Order, USS Enterprise moving into place, and warnings from insiders. P.S. They're not just g
The pieces are in place, the trap is set, all they need is a match: PNAC, Chertoff, Gulf of Tonkin, Cheney pushing Bush, Congress on a break, Bush's new Exec Order, USS Enterprise moving into place, and warnings from insiders. P.S. They're not just g
The pieces are in place, the trap is set, all they need is a match: PNAC, Chertoff, Gulf of Tonkin, Cheney pushing Bush, Congress on a break, Bush's new Exec Order, USS Enterprise moving into place, and warnings from insiders. P.S. They're no
Lawyers across Pakistan burst into tears and cries of jubilation today, as Pakistan's Supreme Court restored the country's Chief Justice, Muhamed Iftikhar Chaudhry, whose sacking by embattled Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf last March sp
(Wonder how Iran feels about this) The US and India have "broken a logjam" in talks to forge an implementing agreement for their landmark civilian atomic deal but a final accord remains elusive, officials said Thursday.
PRESIDENT George W. Bush has signed an order enabling the US government to freeze the assets of people who threaten Iraq's stability, the White House announced overnight.
Those of us who opposed the expansion of NATO warned that it would lead to problems with Russia. Those problems have arrived. A resurgent Russia – flush with oil revenues and a strong leader who is using anti-U.S. resentments to become even more auto
US president George W. Bush plans to pour $US750 million worth of aid into Pakistan's hostile tribal areas in a bid to wrest it away from al-Qa'ida and Taliban militants, despite fears that the funds will be impossible to oversee.
"These combat veterans, some of whom bear deep emotional and physical scars, and many of whom have come to oppose the occupation, gave vivid, on-the-record accounts. They described a brutal side of the war rarely seen on television screens or ch
Threatened abroad, U.S. diplomats have been hit with unprecedented security restrictions, confining many to fortress-like compounds and frustrating Bush administration efforts to get out and counter anti-U.S. sentiment. Lockdowns and prohibitions
The US government is studying the possibility of signing a formal peace treaty with North Korea after more than half a century of tense standoff, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
Nearly half of the US public wants President George W. Bush to face impeachment, and even more favor that fate for Vice President Dick Cheney, according to a poll out Friday. The White House declined to comment on the poll, the latest bad news for a
Russian President Vladimir Putin sought anew to bat down U.S. plans to build a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe, proposing that the system be expanded and largely Russian-based.
At an African Intelligence Summit that was recently held in Khartoum, the CIA had an interesting meeting with Sudanese Intelligence.
Differences over how to balance security needs with concerns over passengers' privacy had deadlocked negotiations since a 2004 deal on data sharing was voided by an EU court last year for technical reasons. An interim accord expires at the end
What’s more obnoxious than a person who constantly whines about the injustices committed against him while ignoring his own injustices against others? A country that does the same thing.
(I saw this in a book I'm reading. Frankly, when does the idiocy end) There is an arm of the Chinese government that has repeatedly aided the nuclear weapons programs of Pakistan and Iran. Now that arm is in line for a $5-billion loan deal from
Washington's fingerprints are all over the chaos that has hit Palestinians. The last thing they now need is an envoy called Blair.
The only deterrent for some countries from being next on "Washington's hit list" is to have nuclear weapons themselves, a new policy report concludes. The report, released this week by the Independent Institute, a California free-marke
This resolution is an exercise in propaganda that serves one purpose: to move us closer to initiating a war against Iran. Citing various controversial statements by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, this legislation demands that the United Natio
Are U.S. forces employing a new weapon in the war against terrorism? And if so, why are they keeping it a secret? A huge explosion in Pakistan killed numerous foreign fighters and civilians. On Sunday, 7 children were reported killed in an attack in
The US has already made up its mind to deploy its planned missile defense system in Europe and will turn down a Russian offer to share a radar station in Azerbaijan, Russia's top general said on Thursday. "In my view... the questioin of pla
The Middle East policy of the US is suffering an unimitigated castatrophe as I write these words. The US is suffering a policy disaster that may be worse in the long run than the Iraq debacle, but apparently nobody in the state department understand
