Iraq is under martial law, complete with curfews and press restrictions. A report in the prestigious Lancet says 100,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed since the start of the invasion. Unemployment
With Marwan Barghouti allowing himself to be nominated as a candidate in the Palestinian elections slated for Jan. 9, 2005, Israel and the US are placed in a politically interesting position. Keen
As if there were not enough mysteries surrounding Yasser Arafat, a new row has just broken over where he was born. The French authorities, refusing to mention the cause of Arafat’s death on his death
PARIS, 16 November 2004 — The French government dispatched an honor guard last Thursday to escort Yasser Arafat’s earthly remains from French soil to a plane bound for the Middle East. But if France
LONDON, 16 November 2004 — When Pakistan President Gen. Musharraf warned that a new Iron Curtain could fall between the Muslim world and the West, he was voicing what must be a very general foreboding
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, 16 November 2004 — When former US President George Herbert Walker Bush talks about “brown” people, he means Mexicans. He calls his “half-Mexican” grandchildren “the little brown
