MONTREAL - Another government has seized the opportunity presented by Washington's "war on terrorism" to justify violating the human rights of its citizens, says a report released Wednesday by Amnesty International (AI). China has detained tens of thousands of people...
At the summit in Istanbul last week, NATO refused to invite Bosnia-Herzegovina to join its satellite program "Partnership for Peace." Even though NATO previously conditioned the invitation on the establishment of a joint military, defense ministry and intelligence...
"On June 10th, 2004, the two clinics in Al-Zawiya treated 130 patients for gas inhalation. The patients were children, women, old people and young men. Dr. Abu Madi related that there was a high number of cases of [tetany], spasm in legs and hands, connected to the...
This book is the definitive study of how a small group of dedicated imperialists took over America's foreign policy. Loaded with footnotes and bibliography, it follows those who made the current disaster in America's relations with most of the world. Chickenhawk...
The North African nation of Tunisia is holding in isolation as many as 40 leaders of a moderate Islamist movement, who are among 500 political prisoners in the country chosen by U.S. President George W. Bush as the base for his plan to democratize the Middle East,...
A federal grand jury in Buffalo, N.Y., investigating charges against art professor Steven Kurtz finally handed down an indictment on Tuesday, ending deliberations that began on June 15. The indictment, technically for mail and wire fraud, also ensnared the University...
Hours after U.S. officials declared Iraq a "sovereign" state, the case of a single Iraqi prisoner stood as a reminder that the question of which government now has jurisdiction over Iraqi detainees – the United States or the Interim Government of Iraq – is...
BAGHDAD - Despite promises of over $1 billion in U.S. funding, hospital patients in Iraq continue to suffer ongoing hardship. Problems plaguing Iraqi hospitals fifteen months into what has been a brutal, bloody occupation range from ongoing medicine and equipment...
There is, thankfully, a remnant of CIA professionals who still put objective analysis above political correctness and career advancement. Just when they thought there were no indignities left for them to suffer, they are shuddering again at press reports that Rep....
As Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 cleans up in movie theaters nationwide, and with antiwar documentaries all the rage these days, I went to see another, less heralded account of how and why we were lied into war: Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear, & the Selling of...
