Scott Horton discusses the Bush administration's war on human rights and the rule of law with Christopher Paine. Interview conducted Nov. 27, 2004. Check out Scott's other interviews with prominent antiwar and libertarian personalities. Download MP3 Listen to...
NEW YORK - U.S. civil rights groups have filed multiple freedom of information requests around the country to uncover evidence that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and local police are spying on political, environmental, and faith-based groups in the name of...
Yesterday's conference on "Al-Qaeda 2.0: Transnational Terrorism After 9/11," sponsored by the New America Foundation and the New York University Center on Law & Security, was a gift to those wanting an update on informed opinion on the subject. The...
When asked about the passage last week of the International Atomic Energy Agency Resolution on the implementation of its Safeguards agreement with Iran, President Bush replied "The Iranians agreed to suspend – but not terminate – their nuclear weapons...
Do you know who Viktor Yanukovich is? Do you know who Viktor Yushchenko is? Do you know what either man stands for? Could you take a blank map of Europe and draw in the boundaries of Ukraine? For most of us, the answer to all of the above is "No." The two...
In the film Schindler's List, there's a scene where Nazi soldiers are coming to take the Jews out of the ghetto in which they've been forced to live as refugees in their own country. The soldiers look anxious and extremely "pumped up," as would be necessary...
It's a late morning start today. As I'm waiting for Abu Talat, who calls to tell me he is snarled in traffic and will be late once again, huge explosions shake my hotel. Shortly thereafter, mortars are exploding in the "Green Zone" as the loud warning sirens...
Another year, another revolution – this time in Ukraine. First there was Albania (1996), then Serbia (00), followed in 2003 by Georgia's "rose revolution." As though conceived by the same scriptwriter, they all fit the same fairy-tale pattern whereby a...
Sometimes it helps just to open an atlas and stare for a few moments. I did so this morning, checking out the Southwestern Asia map (#98) of the National Geographic Atlas of the World (a handsome volume, by the way). And what you see on the page is something simple...
MONTREAL - Canadian leaders, not the country's refugee system, should decide the fate of soldiers who have deserted the U.S. military to apply for asylum in their northern neighbor, according to a support group. One of those soldiers, Jeremy Hinzman, will go before...
