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Instead of planting stories to make them look good, American military overseers in Iraq should stop showing stories that make them look bad. Specifically, if they are the puppet masters of everything Iraqi officials do, why, pray tell, would they allow this mother of all trials starring Saddam Hussein to be shown, not only on… Read more.
When it is over, if it is over, this war [in Iraq] will have horrible consequences….Terrorism will be aggravated….Instead of one bin Laden there will be one hundred bin Ladens. Terrorist organizations will be united. Everything will be insecure. [Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak – March 2003] Yesterday, news anchors across America stumbled over the name… Read more.
Two weeks ago, in a move that shook the world and registered at least a 9 on the political Richter scale, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon abandoned the ruling right-wing Likud Party – which he helped found over 30 years ago – and formed a new centrist party called Kadima! Then, last week, in an… Read more.
With its prison abuse scandals, violations of international laws of warfare, use of chemical weapons against “insurgents” and funding of propaganda stories in the national press, American-style democracy in Iraq is bearing an uncanny resemblance to Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship. Yet, Americans wonder why “freedom loving Iraqis” are not throwing rose petals in the path of… Read more.
Reflecting uncanny coincidence or, perhaps, just shared desperation, the United States and France announced new anti-immigration measures on Tuesday that are aimed at “preventing terrorists [and rioters] from crossing [their] borders.” For his part, President Bush used the background of the notoriously porous fence at the US-Mexican border to warn would-be illegal immigrants (some of… Read more.
For years now, Arab militiamen have slowly starved and repeatedly raped the African women of Darfur as part of their cruel and inhumane campaign of ethnic cleansing More than a year ago, then U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell declared that the systematic raping, pillaging and killing of black Africans in Sudan’s Darfur region constitute… Read more.
Yesterday, during a visit with U.S. Patrol at the Mexican border, President Bush previewed the big speech on Iraq that he plans to deliver this morning at the U.S. Naval Academy. He declared his intent to reinforce border controls as part of his new (get tough) immigration policy and accelerate the training of Iraqi security… Read more.
Six months ago, when political pundits were predicting that a no-confidence vote would bring down the government of Canadian Prime Minster Paul Martin, I predicted in this article that he would, in fact, prevail. And, so he did. Unfortunately, the corruption scandals that precipitated that vote have dogged Martin and his Liberal Party ever since.… Read more.
Leaders from 52 nations (primarily former British colonies in Africa and the Caribbean) met in Malta last weekend for the biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOG) Summit – under the auspices of HM Queen Elizabeth II (seen here addressing them in her trademark hat). Their agenda was dominated by trade issues. But talks amounted to… Read more.
Advocates for capital punishment often argue, in exasperation, that if a child molester, serial killer or anyone deemed sufficiently evil (in the eye of the beholder) does not deserve the death penalty, then who does? And this is an eminently sensible argument; but it arises from a misguided premise. Because, the question is not who… Read more.
