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- POLITICS-US: Intel Agencies Warned of Post-War Risks
WASHINGTON, 25 May (IPS) -
Two major studies prepared by the U.S. intelligence community and distributed to senior officials in every relevant agency two months before Washington's invasion of Iraq warned of many of the problems that have turned the U.S. occupation there into the worst foreign policy crisis since at least the Vietnam War.
Thu, 24 May 2007 23:00:00 +0100
- THEATRE: Making a Monkey of U.S. Fundamentalists
NEW YORK, 25 May (IPS) -
The international focus on fundamentalist Islam might obscure the fact that western nations have their own experiences with fundamentalist religion -- among them the country whose government has most targeted radical Islam, the United States.
Thu, 24 May 2007 23:00:00 +0100
- HEALTH-US: For Some Vets, No Way Out of the War Zone
SAN FRANCISCO, 25 May (IPS) -
The widow of an Iraq war veteran who was shot and killed by the Maryland State Police is talking to a lawyer after a state attorney's report released this month found the troopers' behaviour was "flawed," "assaultive" and "militaristic".
Thu, 24 May 2007 23:00:00 +0100
- POLITICS-US: Public, Republicans Disown Iraq War
WASHINGTON, 24 May (IPS) -
Even as Congress moved to approve President George W. Bush's request for continued funding of the Iraq war through the end of this fiscal 2007, a major new poll released Thursday found that public disillusionment with the war has reached record highs.
Wed, 23 May 2007 23:00:00 +0100
- RIGHTS-CANADA: First Nations Warn of a Long, Hot Summer
VANCOUVER, 24 May (IPS) -
Phil Fontaine, the Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, a Canadian aboriginal governing body, says that the anger felt by First Nations communities over deplorable economic and social conditions has hit a wall and civil disobedience will increase in the coming months.
Wed, 23 May 2007 23:00:00 +0100
- U.S./CARIBBEAN: Anger Mounts Over Inaction on '76 Bombing
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, 24 May (IPS) -
When Caribbean foreign ministers meet with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Capitol Hill in mid-June, they are likely to urge Washington to deal with the man thought responsible for the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people off Barbados, most of them Caribbean nationals.
Wed, 23 May 2007 23:00:00 +0100
- CANADA: Afghan Strategy Sharpens Ideological Divide
TORONTO, 24 May (IPS) -
United Nations-style peacekeeping is getting a bad rap these days within Canada's military, 60 years after then Prime Minister Lester Pearson came up with the idea of mediating the Suez Crisis following the British-French-Israel attack on Egypt.
Wed, 23 May 2007 23:00:00 +0100
- POLITICS-US: Democrats Concede Deadline on Iraq Pullout
WASHINGTON, 23 May (IPS) -
Congress gave in this week to the George W. Bush administration and finalised an emergency supplemental war spending bill that does not include a timeline for withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.
Tue, 22 May 2007 23:00:00 +0100
- POLITICS-US: Immigration Bill Withers on the Vine
WASHINGTON, 23 May (IPS) -
The immigration bill introduced in Congress last week is the first attempt at a wide-ranging compromise designed to give legal status to 12 million undocumented workers in the United States, but stiff opposition from both Democratic and Republican lawmakers has left an uphill battle for proponents of the legislation.
Tue, 22 May 2007 23:00:00 +0100
- TRADE: U.S., China Reach Deal, Major Issues Remain
WASHINGTON, 23 May (IPS) -
The United States and China agreed Wednesday at the close of high-level meetings that China will take steps to open its financial and other services markets -- moves that still fall short of the many sweeping measures hawkish U.S. lawmakers have been calling for to narrow the U.S. trade deficit with the Asian nation.
Tue, 22 May 2007 23:00:00 +0100
- IRAQ: Sunni Resistance Receptive to Sadr Alliance
WASHINGTON, 23 May (IPS) -
Nationalist Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's bid to unite Sunnis and Shiites on the basis of a common demand for withdrawal of U.S. occupation forces, reported last weekend by the Washington Post's Sudarsan Raghavan, seems likely to get a positive response from Sunni armed resistance.
Tue, 22 May 2007 23:00:00 +0100
- U.S./IRAN: Scholars Bear Brunt of Anti-Diplomacy Backlash
WASHINGTON, 23 May (IPS) -
With only a few days left until the United States and Iran are expected to hold much anticipated talks, several factors point to the potential for a real diplomatic breakthrough.
Tue, 22 May 2007 23:00:00 +0100
- IRAN: Charges Against Visiting Scholar Widely Condemned
WASHINGTON, 23 May (IPS) -
The Islamic Republic of Iran on Monday formally charged Iranian-American scholar Haleh Esfandiari with conspiring to undermine the regime in Iran.
Tue, 22 May 2007 23:00:00 +0100
- RIGHTS: Amnesty Report Decries Politics of Fear
WASHINGTON, 23 May (IPS) -
The "politics of fear" are polarising the world and leading to an erosion of human rights, according to Amnesty International's annual report released Wednesday.
Tue, 22 May 2007 23:00:00 +0100
- POLITICS: Major Poll Finds U.S. Muslims Mostly Mainstream
WASHINGTON, 22 May (IPS) -
Despite deep dissatisfaction with U.S. foreign policy and President George W. Bush, U.S. Muslims tend to be better assimilated and more content with the larger society in which they live than their European counterparts, according to a major new survey released here Tuesday by the Pew Research Centre.
Mon, 21 May 2007 23:00:00 +0100
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