Carter kisses more tyrant butt: "Darfur not genocide"
Only last week, Jimmy Carter got into a shouting match with his government security detail when they wouldn't let him go where he wanted in Dafur. It seemed at …
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One strange man, one strange vote
On Tuesday, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed HR 203, a Resolution Condemning the persecution of labor rights advocates in Iran. The dictatorial regime of the mad mullahs has …
Pakistan: Bhutto says talks with Musharraf stalled
As she prepares to return to Pakistan from her long exile, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto says she does not yet have the guarantees she was promised, Salman Masood …
Jimmy Carter in Dafur: High Plains Grifter
As if the people in Dafur, Sudan, didn't have it bad enough, now they're the latest stop on "The Elders" mission to save humanity from itself, starring former President …
Burma: the beat-down goes on
Despite the attempt by the ruling military regime to cut off communications with the outside world, some news continues to trickle out of the South Asian nation, as posted …
Iraq's most revered Ayatollah slams media coverage
The most influential spiritual leader in Iraq, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, has issued a statement condemning media depictions of the situation in Iraq as a "civil war." The Iranian …
It's hitting the fan in Burma ("Myanmar")
This ends one of two ways: either the regime is ruthless enough, as they were in 1988, to quell the movement, or the people are sufficiently incensed by the …
30,000 march for democracy in Myanmar (Burma)
Two days after 2000 Buddhist monks were allowed to gather and pray outside the home of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, under virtual house arrest for nineteen years …
Global economic boom fueled by tax cuts
The world is experiencing one of the greatest economic booms in history (as can be measured), and one of the factors is falling tax rates in major economies, writes …