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New IDF Chief Makes No Bones About His Intention to Over-react to Palestinian Demonstrations
One of the Israel Defense Force chief’s greatest fears is the Arab Street.
Yet Again the U.S. Backs the Forces of Repression in an Americas Presidential Race
The United States is apparently backing right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori in the Peru presidential race to keep the forces of Chavez at bay.
France Seeks to Act (Operative Word) as Israel-Palestine Peace Broker
France is attempting to present itself as a diplomatic alternative to the United States, yet its position doesn’t differ significantly from that of the United States.
The Sisyphus of Europe?
In Greek mythology, King Sisyphus was sentenced to eternal senseless labor as a punishment for insulting the gods. Until the end of time, he must push an enormous stone up the hill only to have it roll back over and over again. Turkey was granted candidate status in December 1999 — 50 years after it first applied for membership — but has managed 12 years later to close only one chapter of the accession negotiations. Despite uphill movement by Ankara, the stone keeps rolling back down again to block Turkey’s entrance to the EU.
Taking Drones to Their Logical Conclusion: Nuclearize Them!
A successor to the Stealth bomber is planned that would not only be capable of bearing nuclear weapons, but could fly pilotless.
Israel’s Demand to be Recognized the Nation-State of One People a Non-Starter
Even the United States has rejected Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s demand that Israel be recognized as the nation-state of the Jewish people.
Ending Rape in War
After curving through miles of Quebec’s countryside, the road to Montebello arrives at an enormous log cabin along the Ottawa River. Busloads of women pull up, from Rwanda, Colombia, the Congo, Mexico, Bosnia, Burma—women who think they can change the world.
Israel’s Madrassas
At best, when taught in schools, extremist religious views dilute the quality of education; at worst, they breed violence.
Review: America, Hitler, and the UN
According to convention, the United Nations began with the signing of the UN charter in San Francisco in 1945. From that beginning, the organization evolved into a global deliberative body of nearly 200 member states. For some, the UN is incapable of managing an anarchic international system. For others, the UN represents an attempt by the major powers following World War II to maintain or expand their empires by dressing them in the guise of an international democratic order.
Turning His Back on Chavez, Peru Presidential Candidate Humala Invokes Lula Instead
Ollanta Humala navigates between competing charges that he’s too left and that he abused human rights as a military commander.