by Phyllis Bennis | Dec 1, 2006 | Democracy & Governance
This is a moment of several overlapping transitions at the United Nations. A new secretary-general will take over when Kofi Annan’s 10 years are up at the end of December. New countries will join the Security Council as temporary members. And UN agencies are...
by Miriam Pemberton, Rachel Stohl | Nov 21, 2006 | Human Rights, Labor, Trade, & Finance, War & Peace
On June 4, 1989, the world watched in horror as the Chinese government’s crackdown on student protestors took a deadly turn. As Chinese soldiers fired their weapons indiscriminately and Chinese tanks rolled through Tiananmen Square, an unknown number of students...
by John Feffer, Stephen Zunes | Sep 20, 2006 | War & Peace
President George W. Bush’s address before the United Nations General Assembly on September 19 appeared to be designed for the domestic U.S. audience. Indeed, few of the foreign delegations or international journalists present could take seriously his rhetoric...
by Antonia Juhasz | Jul 13, 2006 | Labor, Trade, & Finance
Even as Congress has finally begun a serious debate about whether U.S. troops should be withdrawn from Iraq, another part of President Bush’s “war on terror” is advancing with far less public fanfare. Last month, the Senate Finance Committee approved...
by Fawaz Gerges, John Gershman | Oct 27, 2005 | War & Peace
The American-led invasion and occupation of Iraq has provided al-Qaida with a new lease on life, a second generation of recruits and fighters, and a powerful outlet to expand its ideological outreach activities to Muslims worldwide. Statements by al-Qaida top chiefs,...
