Anyone following the Larry Franklin Pentagon spy story is keenly aware of the solidarity binding neoconservatives, AIPAC, Israel's right-wing Likud Party, the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and the war drums neocons are beating against Iran. By this time, only the willfully...
Just kidding of course, but after I watched Pat on Meet the Press Sunday morning, I e-mailed him: "Have you ever thought of running for president?" When he did last time out I supported him, up to the point where I thought he went bonkers on China and trade....
These are bad times for Israeli spy operations. It wasn't enough that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) was outed, last week, as a major supplier of U.S. secrets to Tel Aviv: on Monday, Israel's spy satellite – meant to keep an eye on Iran's...
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NEW DELHI – It is an irony of history that Mahatma Gandhi, who led India to independence from British colonial rule in 1947, is now in a popularity contest with Veer Savarkar, arrested for the assassination of the "Apostle of Peace" but acquitted for...
Washington politicians are once again seriously considering imposing a national identification card – and it may well become law before the end of the 108th Congress. The much-hailed 9/11 Commission report [pdf] released in July recommends a federal...
BAGHDAD – How does a journalist report from a country like Iraq, where the dynamics of the situation and the danger level change so rapidly? That question is put often to journalists. There is no simple answer, but the following words come to mind: flexibility,...
MADRID - Representatives of more than 5,000 survivors of the Chilean dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet and the families of victims brought a lawsuit Monday against the former dictator's executor, Oscar Aitken, in the Spanish capital. The legal action was filed in...
BRUSSELS - Turkey's case for joining the EU improved with the publication of a report Monday setting out the advantages this would bring to the bloc. The report was published as European Union enlargement commissioner Guenther Verheugen noted in Ankara that the human...
If not getting nuked in your jammies is high on your priority list, then maybe your best bet is to vote for John Kerry. Kerry has just endorsed last October's Brit-French-German agreement with Iran, whereby they pledged to facilitate "the fullest possible...
