President Bush will hail his trip to Europe as a resounding success. He hails everything he does as a resounding success regardless of the evidence to the contrary. All politicians do that. Lest you be spun by the spin, note that he comes home with only one tangible...
When newly appointed CIA Director Porter Goss recently warned that China's modernization of its military posed a direct threat to the U.S., was it standard budget time scare tactics? Or did it signal the growing influence of hard-liners in the Bush administration who...
Listen to Scott's interview with Brian Doherty stream download mp3 It's clear at this point in the history of our nation that the national government is not limited in any serious way by the restrictions placed upon it in the Constitution. The...
OTTAWA (IPS) – Bowing to pressure from the public and his own parliamentary colleagues, Canada's prime minister has risked the ire of the Bush administration by rejecting Canadian participation in Washington's ballistic missile defense (BMD) system. Prime...
BEIRUT - Ever since the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri earlier this month, the radical Shi'ite group Hezbollah has been much sought after by politicians opposed to the Syrian presence. Hezbollah, a group that few took seriously when it...
"Stopping Iran short of achieving a nuclear weapons capability – by diplomacy if possible; by other means, if necessary – is a vital U.S. interest." That's essentially the message President Bush has been laying on the Europeans, but it's actually a...
LONDON - The conviction of three soldiers by a military court for abusing Iraqi prisoners is seen to have put the British military on trial. But reports on the way the trial has been conducted put Britain's judicial system itself on trial. The three soldiers were...
At Fort Bragg, the largest U.S. army installation in the world and home to the famed 82nd Airborne Division, the mood is not exactly buoyant. "There are people here who are being deployed for the third time," said Lou Plummer, a veteran with a son on active...
WASHINGTON - The World Bank, an international development institution that says it has no political agenda, may be preparing to fund Israeli security checkpoints around a controversial separation wall under construction on occupied Palestinian territories. Israel is...
Even as defense attorneys were filing court papers charging that the U.S. government was hiding behind secret evidence, and demanding their client's release from a Saudi Arabian prison, Ahmed Abu Ali was being whisked back to the United States and charged with...
