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POLITICS-US: On Middle East, McCain Vows to Stay the Course
In a major address on Middle East policy Monday, Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican candidate for president, pledged to maintain the Bush administration's hard line against Iran and expressed strong scepticism about the ability of the current Palestinian leadership to reach a peace accord with Israel.POLITICS-AFRICA: U.S., China Should Coordinate Policies
Amid growing concerns over big-power competition for access to Africa's immense energy and mineral resources, the U.S. and Chinese governments are being urged to better coordinate their policies toward the continent.POLITICS-US: Obama Draws Line on Cuba, Latin America Policy
In a major policy address on U.S.-Latin American relations, the leading Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, pledged Friday to immediately roll back key sanctions imposed by President George W. Bush against Cuba over the last several years and called for a "new alliance of the Americas" in which Washington's southern neighbours would no longer be treated "as a junior partner".POLITICS-US: As Bush Policy Crumbles, Allies Pick Up the Pieces
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."POLITICS-US: Republicans Fear Democratic Rout in November
The deeply unpopular legacy of U.S. Pres. George W. Bush hangs like a cloud over the election prospects of the Republican Party, raising fears of sweeping Democratic victories in the fall.POLITICS-US: An Ocean Apart, Bush, McCain Play to Neo-Con Dreams
In separate speeches delivered an ocean apart, the two standard bearers of the Republican Party Thursday offered rosy visions of a future designed to gladden the hearts of Israel-centred neo-conservatives without offering any details about how their dreams will be achieved.POLITICS-US: New Approach Awaited on Latin America, Cuba
More than 150 years after the United States promulgated the Monroe Doctrine, Washington should recognise that its dominance over the Americas has ended and that it must "engage Latin America on its own terms", according to a new report released here Wednesday by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), one of the nation's most influential think tanks.RIGHTS-US: School Recruiting Could Violate Int’l Protocol
Pressed by the demands of the "global war on terrorism", the United States is violating an international protocol that forbids the recruitment of children under the age of 18 for military service, according to a new report released Tuesday by a major civil rights group that charged that recruitment practices target children as young as 11 years old.POLITICS: Bush Tour Diminished by Hezbollah Show of Force
While this week's trip by President George W. Bush to Israel, Saudi Arabia and Egypt was never conceived as a triumphant "victory lap" around the region, the swift rout of U.S.-backed forces by Lebanon's Hezbollah Friday has provided yet another vivid illustration of the rapid decline in Washington's influence in the Middle East during his tenure.
US/IRAQ: Pressure to Cut Costs, Troops Strains “Surge”
Growing impatience in Congress over the enormous costs being racked up by the Iraq war, as well as the Pentagon's belief that it needs more troops in Afghanistan to fight insurgents there, is putting the vaunted success of the George W. Bush administration's "surge" strategy to the test.RIGHTS-US: Blacks Suffer Persistent Injustice in Drug War
African Americans have suffered much higher rates of arrests and imprisonment than whites in the nearly 30-year-old U.S. "war on drugs", according to two reports released here this week.RIGHTS: People Everywhere Support Free Media
Sixty years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights asserted the individual's right to "receive and impart information and ideas through any media", it appears that most of the world's people agree, at least in principle.POLITICS-US: Economy High in Public’s Foreign Policy Worries
The price of oil and other international economic issues are rapidly taking centre stage among the dominant foreign policy concerns of the U.S. public, which has also become increasingly sceptical about the effectiveness of military action to further Washington's interests abroad, according to a major new survey released Wednesday by the influential Foreign Affairs journal.POLITICS-US: Supreme Court Gives Republicans a Boost
In a decision with major implications for the November national elections, the U.S. Supreme Court Monday upheld a controversial state law that Democrats and a number of national civil rights groups believe could undermine the right of tens of thousands of poor and minority voters to cast ballots.POLITICS-US: Hawks Resurgent?
Are the latest accusations and tough language leveled against Iran, Syria, and North Korea evidence of a resurgence by the remaining hawks in the administration of President George W. Bush hoping for a final confrontation against one or more members of the revised "axis of evil" before his term ends next January?US/PAKISTAN: New Gov’t Needs Aid, Leeway to Address Terror Front
With the intelligence community and Congressional investigators warning that the greatest threat to the United States is developing in the tribal areas along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, appeals for the George W. Bush administration to reassess its "global war on terror" and Pakistan's place in it are growing.ENVIRONMENT-US: Poll Finds Deep Concern Among Hispanics
Hispanic voters in the United States show a high degree of awareness and concern about environmental issues, particularly global warming, according to an unprecedented national survey on Latino opinion and the environment released here Wednesday by the Sierra Club.SAUDI ARABIA: Women Still Treated as “Perpetual Minors”
Despite Saudi Arabia's accession in 2001 to an international treaty banning discrimination against women, laws and customs in the kingdom ensures that women are treated like "perpetual minors", according to a new report released Monday by Human Rights Watch (HRW).ECONOMY: Gov’ts Must Act to Replace Oil, Poll Finds
Global public opinion believes that the world is running out of oil and that governments should be doing more to replace it as humanity's main source of energy, according to a major international survey released here Sunday by WorldPublicOpinion.org.CLIMATE CHANGE-US: Little New in Bush Climate Plan
Seven years after rejecting the Kyoto Protocol, U.S. President George W. Bush Wednesday called for halting the growth in U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions by 2025, a goal greeted with derision by Democrats and environmental groups.
POLITICS-US: New Jewish Lobby Seeks to Redefine "Pro-Israel"
A new group of prominent U.S. Jews who believe that the so-called "Israel Lobby" has been dominated for too long by neo-conservatives and other Likud-oriented hawks has launched a new organisation to help fund political candidates who favour a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a stronger U.S. role in achieving it.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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