Fawzia Sheikh JERUSALEM, Feb (IPS) – Although Israeli pollsters peg the Kadima Party as the frontrunner in winning next month’s elections, it is still uncertain who will secure the coveted Russian vote that always plays a critical role on polling… Continue Reading
THE NEW YORK TIMES February 2006 Editorial The administration’s tendency to dodge accountability for lawless actions by resorting to secrecy and claims of national security is on sharp display in the case of a Syrian-born Canadian, Maher Arar, who spent… Continue Reading
Analysis by Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Feb (IPS) – U.S. President George W. Bush hopes his maiden tour of India and Pakistan this week will draw both South Asian giants more firmly into Washington’s orbit, as well as help restore his… Continue Reading
Leonardo Boff Theologian With the economy becoming ever more autonomous, and with the weakening of the nation-state, it is illusory to think that elected presidents are the ones who weild the power to lead a country. The real destiny of… Continue Reading
Sanjay Suri LONDON, Feb (IPS) – Even before the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol’s first period can begin, a dialogue has been launched on limiting climate change after the current agreement ends in six years. And it is not too… Continue Reading
By John Gershman | February 2006 Editor: John Gershman, IRC Foreign Policy In Focus The recent attention focused on how American foreign policy can promote democracy abroad has obscured something just as fundamental and controversial. How does U.S. foreign policy… Continue Reading
Saloumeh Peyman TEHRAN, Jan (IPS) – By allowing inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to visit and verify its nuclear programme this week, Iran has indicated readiness to work with the United Nations watchdog, while continuing to limit… Continue Reading
By SCOTT SHANE THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON, Feb — In a seven-year-old secret program at the National Archives, intelligence agencies have been removing from public access thousands of historical documents that were available for years, including some already published… Continue Reading
By Augusto Zamora (*) MADRID, Feb (IPS) – The crisis that erupted over the publication of cartoons of the prophet Mohammed has aroused a range of reactions, most having to do with a presumed confrontation between freedom of expression and… Continue Reading
Analysis by Emad Mekay WASHINGTON, Feb (IPS) – Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld has signaled that he plans to intensify a campaign to influence global media coverage of the United States, a move that is likely to heighten the debate over… Continue Reading
Leonardo Boff Theologian Letter of The Earth Commission A lot is being written about the Muslim reaction to the caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed. Yet, nothing I have read so far addresses, in my opinion, the essence, the gist of… Continue Reading
THE NEW YORK TIMES Editorial Who needs sophomoric cartoons to inflame the Muslim world when you’ve got the Bush administration’s prison system? One reason the White House is so helpless against the violence spawned by those Danish cartoons is that… Continue Reading
William Fisher NEW YORK, Feb (IPS) – Last June, U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told reporters, “If you think of the people down there (at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba), these are people, all of whom were captured on a battlefield. They’re… Continue Reading
Fawzia Sheikh JERUSALEM, Feb (IPS) – Israel has said that Russia’s plans next month to meet leaders of the new militant Palestinian government Hamas may legitimise its political status in the eyes of the international community but not diminish its… Continue Reading
Brian Concannon Jr., Esq. February 2006 On February 7, Haitian voters went to the polls to elect a President for the fourth time since 1990. Through great patience and determination they overcame official disorganization, incompetence and discrimination, and for the… Continue Reading
Dahr Jamail and Arkan Hamed BASRA, Feb (IPS) – New footage of British soldiers beating up young Iraqi men in Amarah city in 2003, and the release of more photographs of atrocities by U.S. soldiers against Iraqi detainees in Abu… Continue Reading
By ANTONIO REGALADO and JIM CARLTON The Wall Street Journal Amid a growing outcry from climate researchers in its own ranks, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration backed away from a statement it released after last year’s powerful hurricane season… Continue Reading
Sanjay Suri LONDON, Feb (IPS) – As violence over the Mohammed cartoons continues at scattered locations around the world, Britain has looked away from them in the interest of good race relations.
By EDITH M. LEDERER The Associated Press February 2006 UNITED NATIONS — Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday said the United States should close the prison at Guantanamo Bay for terror suspects as soon as possible, backing a key conclusion of… Continue Reading
UN News Centre February 2006 – A top official of the United Nations body monitoring climate change called on the dozens of industrialized nations that have ratified the Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gasses to sustain their momentum as they… Continue Reading
