$25 million buys many tens of thousands of tons of food aid as well as its air transport and onward trucking to people, generally in Africa, whose crops have failed. How odd therefore that international
I guess part of the media’s purpose is, to put it in vulgar terms, to ‘rake muck.’ Had that not been the case, Nixon would still occupy the White House even. The Al-Jazeerah television station has
It was not the way I expected to start my morning two Sundays ago — with a terror alert. But that’s what I and other Washingtonians had to deal with as we went about our business that day. Law
AL-BIREH, West Bank, 12 August 2004 — Faced with the lopsided Oslo peace accords, Palestinians attempted to overcome tremendous odds over the last ten years to sow the seeds of a modern economy. However,
LONDON, 12 August 2004 — Since Sept. 11, 2001, there have been growing misconceptions about Saudi Arabia’s key position in the oil market. These misconceptions, though most of the times are politically
BAGDHAD, 12 August 2004 — They are falling like skittles in a bowling alley. One by one, the arguments for the 2003 invasion of Iraq keep tumbling. First to go was the big one. War was necessary because
TAIPEI, 12 August 2004 — A rapid expansion in China’s arsenal of missiles deployed against Taiwan suggests the weapons are no longer just a psychological deterrent for islanders wanting independence
