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_ and much of the world _ watched, enthralled.
The stunning success of Wednesday's bloodless, U.S.-assisted mission has recharged speculation about a third term for Uribe: Will he try to change the constitution again _
U.S. congressional leaders agreed late last year to President George W.
Bush's funding request for a major escalation of covert operations against
Iran aimed at destabilizing its leadership, according to a report in The New
Yorker magazine
Responding to a call by a new network named the National Assembly to End the
Iraq War and Occupation, some 300 anti-war leaders from a broad array of
U.S.-based organizations gathered in Cleveland, Ohio, June 28 and 29.
The
main goal of the conference
The economists who defend the perpetual crises of the capitalist system -- the sundry speculative bubbles followed by bursting bubbles followed by a trail of tears -- most often turn to "supply and demand" as the ultimate explanation and
Over in the States Congressman Ron Paul has declared what we all already knew and warned millions of radio listeners that the US is heading into a deadly confrontation with Iran. He revealed his disbelief at members of Congress who have openly
The recent National Action Plan on Climate Change had no mention of the India-US nuclear deal. Some Indian officials see it as a missed chance to have highlighted a little-known fact: the nuclear deal is a carbon-buster on the scale of the Kyoto
Congress has always had a soft spot for "experts" who tell members what they want to hear, whether it’s supply-side economists declaring that tax cuts increase revenue or climate-change skeptics insisting that global warming is a myth.
Right now, the
What’s the cause of $4 for a gallon of gasoline? To listen to Democrats in Congress and on the campaign trail — and also some Republicans — the answer is "price gouging," "speculation," "oil companies" or "the failed policies of George Bush and Dick
It is a privilege to spend 90 minutes with the president of the United States. It is frustrating, though, when 90 percent of those minutes are declared off the record.
President Bush likes it that way, because he gets to speak "frankly" without
Just a few months ago, the consensus view was that Barack Obama would need to choose a hard-core national-security type as his vice presidential running mate to compensate for his lack of foreign policy experience and that John McCain would need a