By Robert Fisk The Independent UK So America’s one-time ally has been sentenced to death for war crimes he committed when he was Washington’s best friend in the Arab world. America knew all about his atrocities and even supplied the gas – along with the British, of course – yet there we were yesterday declaring…
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U.S. Elite Project Proposes Bipartisan Grand Strategy
Instead of a “global war on terror”, Washington should employ a “global counterinsurgency” strategy that focuses on global law enforcement, intelligence, and special operations. By Jim Lobe International Press Service (IPS) Sept. 27, 2006 Posted by Bulatlat WASHINGTON – After two years of consultations with more than 400 members of the U.S. foreign policy elite,…
U.S. Elite Project Proposes Bipartisan Grand Strategy
Instead of a “global war on terror”, Washington should employ a “global counterinsurgency” strategy that focuses on global law enforcement, intelligence, and special operations. By Jim Lobe International Press Service (IPS) Sept. 27, 2006 Posted by Bulatlat.com WASHINGTON – After two years of consultations with more than 400 members of the U.S. foreign policy elite,…
It’s Time to Say Sorry for Iraq’s Agony
By Mary Riddell The UK Observer 15 October 2006 General Sir Richard Dannatt, the army’s biggest gun, has blown apart Blair’s promises and exposed the disaster our leaders try to hide History will forgive the war on Iraq. Or so Tony Blair told the US Congress in July 2003, as the first cold shadows fell…
Study sees 655,000 Iraqi war deaths; Bush disputes
By Will Dunham Reuters October 11, 2006 Posted By Bulatlat.com WASHINGTON (Reuters) – About 655,000 Iraqis have died from the Iraq war, exceeding previous estimates, researchers said on Wednesday, but President George W. Bush called the findings not credible and a top U.S. commander put the toll at 50,000. U.S. and Iraqi researchers used household…
Thailand’s Army Still Looms Large in Politics
By Nopporn Wong-Anan Reuters Posted by Bulatlat BANGKOK – Even though Thailand’s last military coup was 15 years ago, when Bangkok motorists spotted tanks rolling down the street last week, many thought the army was up to its old tricks once again. “I received more than 10 calls from people saying they had seen several…
THAILAND: A Short Political History
Country in southeast Asia on the Gulf of Siam, bounded east by Laos and Cambodia, south by Malaysia, and west by Myanmar (Burma). Government A hereditary monarch is head of state. A number of constitutional changes were implemented through the 1990s. There is a two-chamber national assembly, comprising a 500-member house of representatives, the Saphaphutan,…
Thailand: All the King’s Men
By Shawn W Crispin Asia Times BANGKOK – As Thailand’s military settles into its provisional authority role and awaits to see which prominent figure assumes the interim leadership role, for all intents and purposes His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej has, through his army proxies, taken absolute control of the kingdom. The military coup led by…
Bush and the Law
By Le Monde Editorial Posted by Bulatlat.com Defenders of human rights in the United States and elsewhere may rejoice over the speech George Bush pronounced Wednesday, September 6. The American president acknowledged the existence of “secret prisons,” in which the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) locked up proven or presumed terrorists outside the United States, in…
9/11: Katrina Started at Ground Zero
By David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz Posted by Bulatlat.com Nothing else worked that day. The President was flying haplessly around the country looking distinctly unpresidential; the Vice President was in a bunkered panic. The military couldn’t scramble armed jets and anything else that could go wrong did. But one thing worked, and it worked splendidly…
Bush’s Plan Allows Coerced Evidence
By Maura Reynolds, Richard B. Schmitt and David G. Savage The Los Angeles Times Posted by Bulatlat Convictions could also be based on material unseen by the accused. The Senate may object. Washington — President Bush asked Congress Wednesday to approve a new system of military-style justice for terrorism suspects that would, for the first…