Nawaz Sharif, a two-time prime minister like Bhutto who presided over Pakistan's test of an atom bomb, who is close to the Islamists, who was also ousted for corruption, and who is detested by Musharraf, had declared an election boycott. Now his
Benazir Bhutto's assassination was a great tragedy. Pakistan is now more than ever teetering on chaos. And all the money we have sent Musharraf has inadvertently drawn a target on our backs.
With the recent assassination of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the heat in the Middle East has been turned up substantially. War exists in Iraq and Afghanistan, Turkey is invading Iraq, there is talk of an invasion of Iran, and no
CNN's Wolf Blitzer expressed shock when Rep. Ron Paul said the tragedy proved his case for nonintervention in the affairs of other nations. We should not, Paul said, either subsidize or work to undermine other governments because such policies in
Mainstream media has had little to say of the ongoing rudeness between the Turks and the Kurds, or the ethnic cleansing already accomplished throughout Iraq – both conditions directly caused by the United States policies and actions.
Oh, and by the way, at the risk of asking a discomforting question of the neo-cons: Do you still maintain that President Bush invaded Iraq to spread democracy ....
4 decades after the CIA hired thousands of jungle warriors to fight communists on the western fringes of the Vietnam War, men who are veterans of that covert operation are isolated, hungry and periodically hunted by a Laotian Communist government sti
The families of the disappeared say their loved ones deserve their day in court. "The government says they are terrorists: OK, prove it," says lawyer Khan. "Pakistan's involvement in the U.S.-led 'war on terror' has been ch
Britain's biggest foreign influence is the one politicians don't dare debate: not immigration, not Brussels, but America. Since 1945, Britain has been subject to at least three invasions. Two of these invasions have been massively discussed,
The Saudi judges more than doubled the punishment for the victim because of "her attempt to aggravate and influence the judiciary through the media." Asked to offer the administration's position on the court ruling, State Department spo
The threat that Al Qaeda could get nukes was the single most important driving force behind the Iraq war. And now with Cheney in charge there is a very real possibility that our "ally" Pakistan will provide nukes to the guys that hit us on
U.S. gives to Pakistan cash not through U.S. agencies or joint U.S.-Pakistani programs. Instead, the U.S. gives Musharraf's government about $200 million annually and his military $100 million monthly in the form of direct cash transfers.
Inside a stately guesthouse on the grounds of Saddam Hussein's palace in Tikrit on the banks of the Tigris, sheikh Sabah al-Hassani jokes that the initials "SH" of the former dictator etched on the walls are his.
This video is Ron Paul foreign policy in his own words. Iran's nukes, US military, Rudy Giuliani, and the Middle East, boiled down into a four-minute video. You be the judge.
Fifteen months ago, the armed wing of Lebanon's Hezbollah party, listed as a terrorist organization by the US and most other Western countries, attacked Israel's northern border, capturing two Israeli soldiers and killing eight more. Israel
Interview with Jon Perkins, author of Confessions of a Economic Hitman. How our economy and foreign policy is really run. Pt. 2: http://youtube.com/watch?v=29GhXsx7-Rs
Missing from the [Washington Time's] case, however, was motive. Why has Putin's Russia turned hostile? Why is Putin mending fences with China, Iran and Syria? Why is Putin sending Bear bombers to the edge of American airspace? Why has Russia
After a series of tense meetings that began with a blunt rebuff from Russian President Vladimir Putin, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates appeared to have been unable to turn around Moscow's opposition to missi
In a country filled with complacent and apathetic citizens, it’s easy to look past one of the greatest issues of unconstitutionality and pseudo-conservative hypocrisy that
October 4, 2007 – Frequently found in American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) press statements is the following abstract. Consistently ranked as the most influential foreign policy lobbying organization on Capitol Hill, AIPAC is an American
October 4, 2007 – Frequently found in American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) press statements is the following abstract. Consistently ranked as the most influential foreign policy lobbying organization on Capitol Hill, AIPAC is an American
Though little noticed outside of the Pentagon, the attack occurred on Sept. 11 in Mali, a northwest African state that the Pentagon fears could become home to havens for terrorists. A U.S. C-130 transport plane was hit by machine-gun fire after it dr
The United States maintained its role as the leading supplier of weapons to the developing world in 2006, followed by Russia and Britain, according to a Congressional study to be released Monday. Pakistan, India and Saudi Arabia were the top buyers.
A Nigerian Editorial Last Week States that the International Republican Institute and the National Democratic Institute both of which are bodies of Congress are Dangers to Democracy.
Iran pledged at UN talks Saturday to help national reconciliation in Iraq but the assurance was immediately brushed aside by the Islamic republic's archrival the US. Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki joined other neighbors of Iraq
Over the weekend, Columbia University said it would welcome any notable figure visiting the United States — even Adolf Hitler — to speak to students and faculty at the Ivy League college.
Nelson Mandela is still very much alive despite an embarrassing gaffe by U.S. President George W. Bush, who alluded to the former South African leader's death in an attempt to explain sectarian violence in Iraq.
"It's out there. All w
Pope Benedict XVI refused a recent request by US Sec. of State Condoleezza Rice to discuss the Middle East and Iraq, Vatican sources say. The Pope refused a request for an audience during the August holidays.
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