Meanwhile, the Americans were working closely with Spanish diplomats at the UN to push the Security Council resolution in words which suited Madrid. America’s permanent representative to the UN, John Negroponte told reporters that the Bush administration was satisfied...
Here's an interesting new twist in the ongoing Successful Liberation of Iraq. .....the director general of the Northern Iraqi Oil Co said an explosion set an oil well ablaze in northern Iraq. "The explosion occurred at 3:30 pm (1230 GMT) because of an explosive charge...
Proving once again that the Bushies are totally disconnected from reality and have no clue how their actions affect people around the world, Bush offers a tasteless and crude presentation in a tin-eared effort to suck up to the American media:Bush put on a slide show,...
From Reason's other Young comes another courageous defense of the Bush administration: Iraq always was essential to the anti-terrorism battle precisely because victory there was regarded as necessary to transform societies from where terrorists, spawned by suffocating...
WASHINGTON : Warnings of an imminent terrorist strike "lit up" in the weeks before September 11, CIA director George Tenet said as the official inquiry into the attacks highlighted confusion and missed opportunities to kill Osama bin Laden. [...] "Our collection...
A source within Kosovo has forwarded this situation report by UNMIK on the current situation in Kosovo. The tone is "business as usual." It really does seem if they are going to try and pretend nothing happened. In the meantime, the Albanians are supposed to hold...
How does Cathy Young make a living writing crap like this? What I most dislike about Reason is not so much that they take non-libertarian positions on occasion (what's up with hiring Jonathan Rauch?), but the general uselessness of many of the articles. In this one,...
Much has been written about the bizarre neocon conspiracy theorist Laurie Mylroie, and the seriousness with which her ludicrous notions were taken amongst the Bushie neocons. With the revelations of Richard Clarke currently in the spotlight, Mylroie's influence with...
In the afternoon of March 21, the Belgrade radio B92 reported that one "Halid Berani" was arrested by KFOR troops, as the suspected originator of the "blood libel" about Serbs drowning three Albanian boys. According to B92: “Berani supplied Kosovo Albanian media at...
As with most Western media, BBC's coverage of the pogrom in Kosovo has been spotty at best, and at worst a deliberate lie. Its three "in-depth" photo essays are a virtual study in spinning away inconvenient facts. First there is the five-photo set from March...
