US extends sanctions against Syria for one year

5-10-2007 • AFP

The White House announced Wednesday that President George W. Bush extended for one year sanctions against Syria for what Washington says is its support for terrorism.

Zimbabwe Opposition seeks in assistance USA.

5-8-2007 • American Chronicle

Zimbabwean Opposition Members address both Members of Congress and a Conference in Washington about the crisis.

Recently some members of the Zimbabwean Opposition were at a conference in Washington discussing events back home.

Key countries object to Iraq plan

05-02-2007 • AP

Some governments key to Iraq's future are balking at entering into an ambitious contract with the country that commits them to substantial aid in exchange for a promise of unity in Iraq with five years. The International Compact with Iraq,

US and Eritrea in a War of Words over Somalia

05-01-2007 • Scott A. Morgan

Both countries blame each other for the suffering in Somalia despite Sparse Contacts.

Foreign policy challenge: see world as it really is

05-01-2007 • Tucson Citizen(Robert Robb)

The neoconservative hubris that the US can and should reshape the world has been a casualty of the Iraq war, both substantively and politically. The practical limitations on the ability of the US to direct the destiny of other peoples and cultures,

No Debate Continued

05-01-2007 • Washington Realist Blog

Last week, the president signed legislation that calls for the "timely admission" of Georgia, Ukraine, Albania, Croatia and Macedonia to NATO. The NATO Freedom Consolidation Act of 2007 allocates funds to assist these countries in their bi

China tightens grip on credit (is China trying to save the Dollar?)

04-29-2007 • China Daily

The People's Bank of China (PBOC), in a surprise announcement on the eve of the Lunar New Year holidays, ordered lenders to tie up another half a percent of their deposits in reserve at the central bank instead of loaning the money out.

'Grave concern' as Putin freezes defense pact

4-26-2007 • The Australian

A DISPUTE over US plans to station anti-missile bases in eastern Europe escalated dramatically today following Russia's call for a freeze of a key European defence treaty.

Russia withdraws from ECF treaty

04-26-2007 • Moscow News

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he was suspending Russia's obligations under the Conventional Forces in Europe(CFE) Treaty, the Reuters news agency reports. The Russian President linked the move to US plans for a missile defenc

Not so lonely these days

04-24-2007 • MSNBC

The Syrian ambassador to the US didn't used to get many visitors. Suddenly, his date book is filling up. What he makes of the new American outreach - and how Syria hopes to gain from it.

Bush flunks diplomacy 101

04-24-2007 • Slate

As Casey Stengel once screamed, "Doesn't anybody here know how to play this game?" It's one thing to waste $10 billion a year quixotically developing a missile-defense system; President Bush clearly announced from the get-go that h

African oil and American foreign policy

04-22-2007 • Harper's

West Africa is now a major source of oil for th US, and African-born journalist and researcher Nicholas Shaxson has made the oil-producing nations of west Africa his beat.

The Endless War by Eric Margolis

04-18-2007 • Eric Margolis for LewRockwell.com

The death six Canadian soldiers in southern Afghanistan reminds us of Santayana’s maxim that those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it. On 27 July, 1880, the British Empire suffered one of the worst defeats in its colonial history.

4 Bombings in Baghdad Kill at Least 183

04-18-2007 • Forbes.com

Suspected Sunni insurgents penetrated the Baghdad security net Wednesday, hitting Shiite targets with four bomb attacks that killed 183 people - the bloodiest day since the U.S. troop surge began nine weeks ago.

Build antimissile shield together: Russian lawmaker

4-9-2007 • AFP

[Missile shield from whom?] A senior Russian lawmaker called for Russia to be included in US plans to build a missile defence system in Europe, warning Moscow will otherwise view the antimissile shield as a threat.

Fourth Republican Congressman Meets with Syria

4-9-2007 • AP

A U.S. Republican congressman met President Bashar Assad on Thursday, a day after a visit by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, spurning the White House policy of isolating the Syrian leadership.

US citizen held in Ethiopia by proxy

4-9-2007 • AFP (Raw Story)

Hafetz, a lawyer at the Washington-based law institute the Brennan Center for Justice, described Meshal's detention as "a product of the lawless process that's taking place in Ethiopia now with the US involved."

Pelosi and Syria

4-9-2007 • by Charley Reese (AntiWar)

The White House's huffing and puffing about Nancy Pelosi's visit to Syria is just a bunch of hooey. Congress is an independent and coequal branch of our government. Its members can go anywhere they wish to go, and that includes the current Ho

US to pursue missile shield with or without Moscow's nod

4-4-2007 • AFP (Raw Story)

"We want to cooperate with Russia," said Eric Edelman, undersecretary of defense for policy. "But that being said, I don't think if for some reason we're unable to reach a commonly agreed way ahead, that we would want to acc

Israel's protest are said to stall Gulf arms sale

04-05-2007 • New York Times

A major arms-sale package that the Bush adminstration is planning to offer Saudi Arabia adn other Persian Gulf allies to deter Iran have been delayed because of objections from Israel (Wonder how many of these weapons will kill Americans)

US House speaker starts Syria visit amid White House criticism

4-3-2007 • AFP

House speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Syria for a controversial 2-day visit amid protests from the White House that she is undermining US policy. Pelosi, an ardent opponent of President Bush, smiled and shook hands with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid

3 Republican Legislators visit Syria to discuss ties

4-3-2007 • AP

The U.S. House members, who included Virginia Republican Frank Wolf, Pennsylvania Republican Joe Pitts and Alabama Republican Robert Aderholt, also said they had raised with Syrian officials the issue of stopping the alleged flow of foreign fighters

Kudos to Pelosi for Visiting Syria

4-2-2007 • by Ivan Eland (Independent Inst.)

President Bush has scolded House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for visiting Syria. In the president's opinion the US government should speak with just one voice overseas. That view flies in the face of both the text and spirit of the Constitution.

Bush orders CIA to indirectly support Sunni groups in Lebanon

04-01-2007 • Cooperative Research

President Bush issues a "non-lethal presidential finding" permitting the CIA to provide financial and logistical support to Lebanese prime minister Fouad Siniora. The classified presidential order "authorizes the CIA and other US inte

U.S. steps up campaign against Syrian government

3-30-2007 • McClatchy News

The Bush administration has launched a campaign to isolate and embarrass Syrian President Bashar Assad, using parliamentary elections in late April as a lever, according to State Department officials and Syrian exiles.

CIA document links Colombian army chief to right-wing "terrorists"

03-27-2007 • World Socialist

In another blow to the Bush adminstration's closet political ally in Latin America, an intelligence report obtained by US CIA has charged Colombia's army chief Gen. Mario Montoya with collaborating intimately with right-wing paramilitaries

"Bockers" Bolton at it again

03-22-2007 • BBC

A former top American diplomat says the US deliberately resisted calls for an immediate ceasefire during the conflict in Lebanon in the summer of 2006. Former ambassador to the UN John "Bockers" Bolton told the BBC that that before any cea