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Bush's Callous Disregard for Human Life
17:23 08.04.2003 | Columnists
USA spends billions on war as 40 million starve in Africa George Bush, like Donald Rumsfeld, claims to be a religious man. Which religion, it is not clear but it certainly cannot be Christianity. After sending countless people to their deaths as governor of Texas, George Bush now spends billions of dollars on an illegal war in which war crimes are...
The American Monster: Who Can Stop It?
08:43 08.04.2003 | Columnists
If the only tool you have is a hammer, then every problem begins to look like a nail A popular Chinese curse goes thus: "May you live in interesting times!" The world is indeed living in 'interesting' times courtesy of the only surviving super power (Robin Cook, the immediate past British Foreign Secretary would prefer to call it Hyper Power) on...
Life Off-Duty
10:41 07.04.2003 | Columnists
Nobody wants to see a love story. It would remind people too much of home I guessA sure sign of easing war tensions? Possibly. The gym was shut down when the war began: troops were ordered to stay in uniform at all times -- even during off-hours -- so they would be best prepared for a possible chemical attack. The gym opened again earlier this week...
Does Russia Need India
06:28 07.04.2003 | Columnists
It is wrong to say that Russian economy is ailing Adhocism is haunting India's foreign policy balking a clear expression of its standpoint even on crucial issues like Iraq. Last week its foreign secretary Kanwal Sibal was in Moscow conveying to the Russian leaders India's agreement with their demand for a political settlement to the war. Based...
The Strategic Landscape After Iraq
08:56 01.04.2003 | Columnists
Diplomacy is on hold for the moment, but there should be no mistaking the diplomatic significance of the war in Iraq. While the debates in the United Nations failed to prevent war, they triggered subtle changes in the geopolitical landscape that could fundamentally reshape the complexion of diplomacy. The United States will surely remain the...
US Bombs Iran
14:23 26.03.2003 | Columnists
Crusaders Readying for 2004 Invasion While the slaughter continues in Iraq, the United States has its sights set on the real prize: the Islamic Republic of Iran. The bottom line has not changed in 2003. It is all about economics. In the 1950's and 1960's, the US and UK were worried about the nationalization of oil production by Iran and Iraq. In...
Ali Ashraf Khan: A pre-planned war
12:48 22.03.2003 | Columnists
So the terrible eventuality has happened and American and British forces have been let loose against Saddam Hussein. The irony is that although this is a fight between Saddam Hussein and President Bush to avenge his father's shortcoming in Iraq during the last Gulf War, yet the innocent Iraqi men, women and children will suffer for no fault of...

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USA considers scenario of war with China
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Israel shocked with the move of Iran and Argentina
Pope Benedict XVI understands demands of today s world
Pope Benedict XVI understands demands of today's world
Fidel Castro: Now and forever
Fidel Castro: Now and forever
New Scrutiny of Role of Religion in Bush's Policies
05:00 17.03.2003 | Columnists
The president's rhetoric worries even some evangelicals President Bush has never been shy about injecting his faith into the public arena - his campaign remark that Jesus Christ was his "favorite political philosopher" was an early signal. But his rising use of religious language and imagery in recent months, especially with regard to the US...
War reporter likes 'being a soldier'
09:38 12.03.2003 | Columnists
Many of those embedded with the ground forces left today. Those assigned to Air Force units are expected to leave tomorrow. Among those joining the Marines today is George C. Wilson. Wilson has seen Pentagon-press relations come full circle. In the early days of the Vietnam conflict, the Pentagon offered all-expenses-paid trips to reporters who...
Americans Who Eschew Brie and Beaujolais
07:30 04.03.2003 | Columnists
Boycotts of all things French stem from disputes over Iraq - but have roots in centuries-old cultural tensions. The way Dan O'Neill sees it, he can at least send a message. His leverage, he knows, is limited. Foie gras is hardly a staple of the American diet. Nor is Camembert cheese in great demand for Chicago Bears tailgaters.
Life in a Barrel of Oil
06:20 04.03.2003 | Columnists
One of the most clever pitches in the energy education program is the: There's a Lot of Life in a Barrel of OiI " sell which maintains "It's amazing how many things get their start from a barrel of oil The Grammy Award's selectors overlooked the American Petroleum Institute's (API) hit children's recording titled Energy and Me by Bill B (Bill...
A Baghdad Family Braces for Another Attack on their City
07:00 25.02.2003 | Columnists
Iraqi has distributed extra rations to try to stave off hunger and unrest during a possible war with the US. The painting by one of Iraq's best-known artists should have been done three weeks ago, a vibrant image of a peace dove and blue Islamic-style dome, with an emerging deep red backdrop.
American Taliban
09:42 04.02.2003 | Columnists
Among recent media awareness of the burgeoning antiwar movement across the country, several items stick out. Moveon.org has released an antiwar ad to be shown on TV stations across the country, part of a grassroots campaign gone overboard. The group asked for enough money from supporters to launch a modest print ad, and wound up with enough for a...
What Cost Life?
02:18 04.02.2003 | Columnists
NASA's O'Keefe Should Resign Within 24 hours of STS Columbia's demise, the US government established an investigative commission headed by a former US Navy employee, ex-Admiral Harold Gehman, Jr., and seven other grand brains culled from the US Air Force and US Navy. They will be supported by the for-profit United Space Alliance (USA), shorthand...
In Israel, hopes fall with shuttle
07:20 03.02.2003 | Columnists
In a nation dogged by conflict, astronaut Col. Ilan Ramon gave Israelis 16 days of pride and respite. For Israelis, the Columbia's fiery disintegration in the Texas skies didn't just herald the death of their first astronaut; it also extinguished a beacon of hope.

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Into harm's way
07:40 30.01.2003 | Columnists
As war looms in Iraq, journalists disagree about how best to cover the conflict - and live to tell the story The first Gulf War was a fiasco. Journalists who covered it will tell you: Some of the dispatches they sent home in the winter and spring of 1991 are embarrassing to read today. Holed up in a hotel, herded into pens for military briefings...
Dragging a new board game to the table
09:22 27.01.2003 | Columnists
Behind an upstart's struggle to roll into a world tightly controlled by big brands and distributors In this city known for self-promotion, Celia Weiner can talk business with the best of them.
A four-winged fossil upends accepted science
07:00 23.01.2003 | Columnists
SAN FRANCISCO – When scientist Rich-ard Prum looked upon the dinosaur's remains, he could barely believe what lay before him. Locked in a slab of mottled brown stone was the fossil of a creature that, even in the fantastic world of the Cretaceous, seemed to spring more from imagination than from any era of Earth's history.
Bush's Ugly America
04:26 22.01.2003 | Columnists
Up until November of 2000, an American citizen could have arguably maintained that the United States had become a more tolerable society having, in some respects, tamed much of its monstrous behavior and murderous history, and that there would be no return to the wretched mentality that allowed some of the greatest atrocities in American history...
White teachers flee black schools
07:30 21.01.2003 | Columnists
Some see exodus in South as a new form of segregation. Certain neighborhoods in the South are weathering a new version of an old phenomenon: white flight.
The Other Piece of the Economic Puzzle
09:36 17.01.2003 | Columnists
The secret to explosive economic growth is laughably simple: low taxes, stable money. Of all of Vladimir Putin's reforms, by far the most important has been the radical reduction of tax rates. Once the VAT and social taxes are lowered, preferably to single-digit levels, that great project will be nearly complete. Now the Russian leadership must...
Ten European Years
08:35 15.01.2003 | Columnists
Great expectations that Europe, ten years after the signature of the historic Maastricht treaty, will become a flawless union, are boundless illusions. It is not yet clear to the European political class whether the new European order will have the label of federal units or the hallmark of sovereign states. In view of the unavoidable globalisation...
A South Pole trek in search of global warming
08:50 08.01.2003 | Columnists
Ice samples on polar trip yield clues on climate change. Just over 90 years after the first humans set foot at the South Pole, a team of US scientists has completed a rare cross-country trek to Antarctica's southernmost point as part of an international effort to uncover the history of climate change on Earth's most inhospitable continent.
Targeting Tourists, Not Terrorists: Why Airport Security Is A Charade
08:11 08.01.2003 | Columnists
Terrorism forces airports to take more security measures The airports of the developed world have been turned into mini prototype police states, with little or no backlash from those forced to pass through them. But of course we’ll suffer any assault on our God-given rights to ‘save us from the terrorists,’ won’t we? This argument is based on the...
Arming for Armageddon
09:24 28.12.2002 | Columnists
US Military-Industrial Complex Reigns Supreme In 2001, the US weapons industry controlled approximately 50 percent of the world arms market. The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) reports that for fiscal year 2001, the US government exported $12.2 billion in weapons and was awarded $13.1 billion in new foreign contracts through its Foreign...
Bush taps an economic salesman
06:51 10.12.2002 | Columnists
Bush names John Snow as new Treasury chief with task of selling tax cuts and buoying confidence. President Bush's sudden move to appoint a new economic team - the first major shakeup of his administration - is more about chemistry and teamwork than it is about taking the US economy in a bold new direction.
Film star to portray sex-reformer Kinsey
07:09 09.12.2002 | Columnists
Neeson urged to skip role as 'infamous pedophile propagandist' One of Hollywood's leading men is risking his reputation with a plan to portray the "father of the sexual revolution," Alfred Kinsey, contends a chief critic of the late researcher.
Damaging files highlight risks of bankruptcy for church - 6 December, 2002 - News
05:40 06.12.2002 | Columnists
The court-ordered release of 2,200 pages of documents this week provides new details on how Boston's top Roman Catholic leaders covered up sexual abuse - an embarrassing development for the embattled archdiocese.
Fueling war
05:44 05.12.2002 | Columnists
With the cold war over, more global conflicts are being spurred by a scramble for natural resources rather than by geopolitics, and poor countries rich in mineral deposits are the new focal point. Abundant resources - such as diamonds, emeralds, lapis lazuli, timber, coltan, and oil - should be an economic blessing to a developing nation. Too...
Sex Ed Enshrined in Museum with Lofty Mission
06:10 03.12.2002 | Columnists
Amidst all the doom and gloom about the economy these days, comes a ray of sunshine! The New York Times on Nov. 19 carried this headline: "Sex Museum Reports Profitability." The story begins, "In its first six weeks the Museum of Sex at 233 Fifth Avenue has drawn more than 15,000 visitors, well over the projections of the number needed to make a...
The Balkan States of America
06:30 29.11.2002 | Columnists
Secretary of State Colin Powell, in a speech to "Muslim-Americans" Nov. 18, said he is attempting to expand programs within his agency to bring educators, journalists, political and religious leaders from Islamic countries to the United States.
Hip-hop spreads the Muslim word
06:33 27.11.2002 | Columnists
Group puts Islamic message in language of American youth A Muslim hip-hop group contends it is breaking new ground in America's black community with its clear Islamic message of straight, pious living, according to Reuters.
Beijing waiting for U.S.-Iraq war?
10:12 26.11.2002 | Columnists
Military analysts say China could be waiting for the United States to commit much of its remaining military forces to an attack against Iraq before launching an invasion against Taiwan
China strives for a - wince - middle class
06:15 25.11.2002 | Columnists
At the 16th Communist Party Congress earlier this month, outgoing President Jiang Zemin cited a main goal for China as being what he termed xiao kang - or a well-off life. The 5,000-year-old phrase refers to a condition of prosperity, and evokes something similar to the "car in every garage, and chicken in every pot" adage in the United States.
Expanded NATO looks for new role
06:00 22.11.2002 | Columnists
The alliance approves seven new members and creates a rapid-reaction force. PRAGUE AND PARIS – NATO leaders launched a radical overhaul of the Western alliance at a summit in Prague Thursday, welcoming seven new members from the former communist bloc and creating a rapid-reaction force ready to fight anywhere in the world.
New Yorkers Finally Shut Up
08:05 21.11.2002 | Columnists
Picture this: New York City on a Saturday night. Action, bright lights, hustle and bustle. The hub of international nightlife in the city that never sleeps. "Let's get loud!" seems to be the call to action for young people hitting the crowded streets and nightclubs. But there is one nightclub in the center of this dizzying carnival where young...
Why aging oil tankers still ply the seas
07:00 21.11.2002 | Columnists
EU officials urge quicker implementation of strict inspection and safety standards, due next year. PARIS – Fifteen hundred fathoms beneath the storm-tossed Atlantic waves an environmental time bomb is threatening Spanish beaches and fishing grounds, but nobody knows who is really to blame.
For Iraq coalition, US seeks bare essentials
06:40 20.11.2002 | Columnists
Turkey's cooperation, positioning in the Gulf, and flyover rights are top prioritiesAs the American troika of President Bush, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld arrives in Prague Wednesday for a NATO summit, the off-the-agenda focus will be the planning for war with Iraq.
In Celebration of the Life of Tim Hector, Pan Africanist, Revolutionary
11:18 19.11.2002 | Columnists
Tim was among the group of young radical intellectuals born in the Caribbean who matured in the 1960s and choose to fight and die on the battlefield for Socialism, African Liberation and the liberation of the oppressed every where. Among these must be numbered Walter Rodney Guyana), Maurice Bishop (Grenada) and Rosie Douglas (Dominica).
Sheik: 'It's OK to kill non-Muslims' - 19 November, 2002 - News
04:00 19.11.2002 | Columnists
London Islamic cleric caught on tape calling for death of Americans A London-based Muslim cleric has been caught on film urging his followers to kill non-Muslims – particularly Americans – and to commit other acts of terrorism.
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Obama: Nobel Peace Prize winning war criminal
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U.S. hawks worry over military inferiority
Air passengers go bananas over duty free alcohol
Air passengers go bananas over duty free alcohol
Judge falls asleep during trial in Russia
Judge falls asleep during trial in Russia
Syria: brave nation of survivors
Syria: brave nation of survivors
Canada s unsustainable slaughter of polar bears
Canada's unsustainable slaughter of polar bears
Man commits suicide in public by stabbing himself 5 times in the heart
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