The New York Times reported yesterday that Kuwait, at long last, has granted full political rights to its women citizens. Better late than never, eh? An interesting irony that during Operation Desert Storm women had the vote (for what it… Read moreKuwait grants women political rights
Luis Posada Carriles, the Cuban exile and accused terrorist who re-entered the U.S. to file an asylum claim, has been arrested by immigration authorities and is being held at a Florida facility run by the Homeland Security Department’s Bureau of… Read morePosada Carriles arrested
There has been a second conviction in the Abu Ghraib torture scandal–once again of a low-ranking MP, Army Spc. Sabrina Harman. The media have made much of her conviction in a court martial at Fort Hood, TX, playing up quotes… Read moreAbu Ghraib convictions: spooks stay in the shadows
The government and opposition protesters are sharply at odds in Uzbekistan days after the eastern city of Andijan exploded into violence. A May 15 AP report claimed some 500 bodies had been laid out in a school in Andijan for… Read moreWhat happened in Uzbekistan?
Allegations in the May 9 Newsweek that U.S. military interrogators at Guantanamo Bay had abused a Koran, and even flushed one down a toilet, led to riots that left several dead in Afghanistan May 11. By the next day, protests… Read moreNewsweek “retraction” on Gitmo Koran controversy: rush to judgement?
…the more they stay the same. Or, as Yogi Berra put it, its deja vu all over again. The recent arguing (on this blog and just about everywhere else) over Iraq and the neo-cons and the supposed hijacking of U.S…. Read moreIraq and the neocons: The more things change…
Well, Pat Buchanan (whose name came up in the recent unpleasantness over anti-Semitism on this blog) noted the 60th anniversary of VE Day in his own inimitable way: by asking in a May 11 opinion piece “Was WWII Worth It?”… Read morePat Buchanan: Was WWII Worth It?
A new study by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) finds that crimes against Muslims in the U.S. jumped by more than 50% in 2004. The report outlines 1,522 cases of harassment, discrimination or violence against Muslims last year, including… Read moreAnti-Muslim crimes up 50%
The former U.S. military intelligence chief at Abu Ghraib prison has been removed from his command as part of a punishment that also included a fine and reprimand, the Army has announced. Col. Thomas Pappas became the second senior officer… Read moreMeagre justice in Abu Ghraib scandal
Just weeks after India and Pakistan took unprecedented steps towards normalization in Kashmir, the divided province is exploding into violence again. Yesterday, 13 were killed in a car bomb in Srinagar and gunfights between militants and security forces elsewhere in… Read moreRenewed violence in Kashmir
Last week, Doonesbury‘s GI Ray Hightower blogged home bitterly from Baghdad that “Iraq is the new Afghanistan”—meaning the American public has largely forgotten that there is a war going on. Today’s news indicates Afghanistan may actually be becoming the new… Read moreIs Afghanistan the “new Iraq”?
The Colombian human rights group Red de Defensores (Defenders Network) reports in a May 10 alert of a massive illegal detainment of over 100 students, mostly minors, by an elite National Police unit in the conflicted oil city of Barrancabermeja…. Read moreMore SMAD terror in Colombia
