A year for terror
As tensions, speculations, exposures and denials mounted over just how much President Bush knew about terrorist plots pre-11 September, hardly a day went by this last
Independence challenges
20 May will see the birth of the millenniums newest nation: East Timor. Three years since the 1999 vote for autonomy that sparked off the massacre of
Unbeknownst to most of the world, over the last few weeks, secret talks have been taking place between the opposing parties in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As usual, these haggles over
West Bank toll
As investigations into the events in Jenin continued to stall, the cost of Israels military campaign in the West Bank became clearer this week. The UN
Korean Politics
It has been a big week for Korea, North and South. As part of the agreements made at the 2000 summit, there was a mass reuniting of relatives
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Nato plus one
With the attention of the world elsewhere, an historic agreement has been reached on a new plan for giving
Jenin broken down...
As we watch the wasteland images unfold from the Jenin refugee camp, Rita Giacaman and Penny Johnson, two academics from Birzeit university, have produced a statistical profile
Cash for carnage
Before announcing the thirty-day suspension of Iraqi oil exports this week, against the Zionist entity and the American aggressive policy and not against anyone else, Saddam Hussein
The following are choice excerpts from a proposal for a full-length motion picture, currently being drooled over at the highest levels of a Hollywood studio. In an effort to get
To find out what war-torn Afghanistan needs most, only France would send a philosopher. President Jacques Chirac and his prime minister, Lionel Jospin, this week entrusted Frances most flamboyant
Chopped up
With the polls scheduled for the weekend, the Zimbabwe Independent ran a story this week chronicling the cost of President Mugabes flying jaunts over the four-week campaign.
Doomsday: set your clocks
The aftershocks of 11 September brought another unwelcome change this week. The Los Angeles Times, among others, reported that the hands of the symbolic Doomsday clock
