“The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa .” George W. Bush, ‘ State of the Union ,’ 28 January 2003 . . . at April’s Nuclear Security Summit, we will bring forty-four nations together behind a … Read More →
Category Archives: Foreign Affairs
Today, we are all Georgians.
The West Begins to Doubt Georgian Leader “Today, we are all Georgians,” Republican presidential candidate John McCain declared. The neoconservative commentator Robert Kagan compared the Russian action with the Nazis’ 1938 invasion of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. And in a meeting with US Vice … Read More →
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“I’ve never seen a man so broken up and ripped apart…” Pakistan soldiers ‘confront US’ Pakistani troops have fired shots into the air to stop US troops crossing into the South Waziristan region of Pakistan, local officials say. Reports say nine US helicopters landed on … Read More →
Joe Biden was right, and John McCain was wrong.
Strip of Iraq ‘on the Verge of Exploding’ Kurds Extend Role Beyond Autonomous Borders, Angering Arabs By Amit R. Paley Washington Post Foreign Service Saturday, September 13, 2008; A01 JALAWLA, Iraq — Kurdish leaders have expanded their authority over a roughly 300-mile-long swath of territory … Read More →
From our Foreign desk…
Bush Praises Pakistan Just Hours After U.S. Strike By STEVEN LEE MYERS WASHINGTON — President Bush on Monday praised Pakistan’s commitment to fighting extremists along its deteriorating border with Afghanistan, only hours after an American missile strike destroyed what American and Pakistani officials described as … Read More →
You have the right to remain silent.
This stuff has happened before. And it’ll happen again. Happy Fourth of July.
Your Foreign News Update
THE WORLD FROM BERLIN ‘Nature Has Dealt the Burmese Junta a Devastating Blow’ The cyclone that hit Burma over the weekend has killed tens of thousands and made more than a million homeless. The Burmese government has asked for international help — and the consequences … Read More →
Other news, in another place.
China Lashes Out at US Human Rights Criticism China has lashed out at US criticism of its humans right record — despite the fact that the State Department dropped it from its list of worse offenders. Human rights and other issues such as Tibet are … Read More →
The Weak in Review
Update: Claude Choules passed away. He was the second to last veteran of WWI to remain alive. Please give this article by Evan Fleischer, The Last Two Veterans Of WWI a read if you have the time. “War is the deliberate and condoned slaughter of … Read More →