President Obama said Tuesday that federal investments in waterway maintenance will be vital as drought fueled by climate change creates problems for barges bringing goods out of the Midwest. Obama, during a meeting of the President’s Export Council, noted recent problems moving goods when last year...
(Author’s Note: How does climate change affect our health? This piece tries to answer that question.)THE scientific evidence continues to mount. The climate is changing, the effects are already being felt and human activities are a principal cause.“Without effective action, climate change is going ...
Communist leaders looking at hazy path to better environment BEIJING – Facing public outrage over smog-choked cities and filthy rivers, China’s leaders are promising to clean up the country’s neglected environment – a pledge that sets up a clash with political pressures to keep economic growth stro...
If new government doesn’t address the issues related to climate change, Libya could see more turmoil; say Francesco Femia and Caitlin Werrell. When dictator Moammar Gadhafi was killed in October 2011, months after the first wave of uprisings swept Libya as part of the larger Arab Spring, internatio...
KABUL: Afghan opposition leaders urged Washington not to overreact to President Hamid Karzai's allegations of American collusion with the Taliban, saying there is broad support for a continued U.S. role in Afghanistan. Mr. Karzai caused a furor on Sunday, the day he met visiting U.S. Defense Secre...
A dispute over the fate of about three dozen militants held by U.S. forces in Afghanistan has disrupted negotiations over a long-term security agreement to leave U.S. troops in the country after 2014. The United States has refused to turn over the prisoners — deemed especially dangerous compared w...
A new book by an administration insider argues a “dithering” White House has led to key missteps in Afghanistan and a loss of American power in the world. BUZZARDS BAY, Mass: As the recent fracas in Afghanistan amply demonstrates, the picture is not at all rosy with regards to the United States’ lo...
KABUL: Security forces in the Afghan capital have defused a truck bomb packed with nearly eight tonnes of explosives, the biggest of its kind discovered in the country, the spy agency said on Friday amid heightened security. Intelligence forces discovered the explosives in eastern Kabul, wired and...
Review Muslims Most Civilized, Yet Not Enough By Dr. Javed Jamil Review by Syed Adil Pages 364 Mission Publications Price: Rs 500/-, US$ 50 This is now becoming increasingly clear that the so-called New World Order is an ugly product of the ugly designs of the forces of economics t...
Western so-called news media coverage of the escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula is like watching a cross between a bad James Bond movie and a cheap horror flick about flesh-eating zombies.It would be funny if the danger of war was not so serious and imminent. The disturbing direction of th...
What in the world is going on in the west? I’m talking about Europe and America and all the players in the Middle East and Africa. The entire scenario smells like rotten fish (more like decaying bodies). I’m tired of holding my tongue and reading the drivel and watching the charade on television. Th...
- The Denver Post, on February 15th, ran an Associated Press article entitled Homeland Security aims to buy 1.6b rounds of ammo, so far to little notice. It confirmed that the Department of Homeland Security has issued an open purchase order for 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition. As reported elsew...
KABUL: Afghanistan must make improving its power infrastructure a top priority to exploit vast mineral deposits and attract more foreign investors, the head of the World Bank said Thursday. Kabul hopes Chinese and Indian investments in iron ore and copper mining will help offset a dip in its econo...
Canada spent about $10 million on security in Afghanistan at its $50-million Dahla dam project, where private security contractors were linked to allegations of corruption and involved in an armed standoff with Canadian security officials. One of Canada’s signature projects in Afghanistan, the Dah...
Afghanistan's ex-spy chief has risked sparking another war of words by making a series of allegations against Pakistan. Amrullah Saleh, former director of the National Directorate of Security (NDS), on March 12 accused Pakistan of treating Afghanistan as a "sub-nation." "Pakistan has monopolized...
MAIDAN SHAHR, Afghanistan :The Afghan policeman manning a checkpoint glances at the snow-covered mountains that are home to Taliban fighters and predicts what would happen if elite U.S. forces leave Wardak province, seen as the gateway to the capital of Kabul. "The Taliban will take over in one day,...
KABUL: A crack in the once solid U.S.- Afghanistan relations appeared after Afghan President Hamid Karzai accused the United States of holding secret talks with the Taliban outside Afghanistan, a claim sharply rebuffed by Washington as baseless. On Sunday, President Karzai categorically said that ...
President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday continued his criticism of US intentions in Afghanistan with a pointed speech claiming the Americans are eyeing off Afghan mines and warned that now the Afghan government knows. "Americans have asked Afghans to give them Afghanistan's mining contracts, and I said ...
KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai repeated in a speech on Tuesday his provocative charge that the Taliban and the U.S. are conniving to perpetuate instability, ignoring a U.S. rebuttal in a deepening crisis in bilateral relations. Mr. Karzai said on Sunday that the Taliban were killing Afghan c...
A former State Department insider has written a blistering account of the Obama administration’s missteps in Afghanistan. But is he right? Former State Department Advisor Vali Nasr has set Washington abuzz with his gloves-off denunciation of the Obama administration's conduct of foreign policy, in ...
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Space tourism won't hurt environment: Branson
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Invisibility of mothers
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Guantánamo Hunger Strikers Subject to Harsh New Method of Force Feeding
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Murder Is Our National Sport
Murder is our national sport. We murder tens of thousands with our...
