UN envoy snubbed by junta leader in Burma The United Nations special envoy to Burma has met the opposition icon Aung San Suu Kyi in Rangoon, but was snubbed by the leader of the junta that crushed democracy protests last week. Ibrahim Gambari, a former Nigerian foreign minister, arrived in the country on Saturday and […]
Bolton: We Should Carry Out Regime Change In Iran Because ‘It Did Work In Iraq’ The Jerusalem Post reported yesterday that former U.N. ambassador John Bolton advised Tory delegates in Britain this weekend that they should press for “pre-emptive strike on suspected nuclear facilities” in Iran. “Because life is about choices, I think we have […]
Freedom’s Watch is a White House front group "hatched" in March 2007 by a group of prominent "deep-pocketed" conservatives at the "winter meeting" of the political lobbying group the Republican Jewish Coalition in Manalapan, Fla., where keynote speaker Vice President Dick Cheney "accused the Democrat-led House of Representatives of not supporting troops in Iraq and […]
UN envoy extends mission after talks with opposition Emissary fails to meet main general but spends more than hour in discussions with Aung San Suu Kyi in Rangoon Lockdown: Earlier he met several generals in the junta. UN sources said the generals dismissed the protests as the work of disruptive elements backed by foreign embassies. […]
I did something this evening I’ve never done before. I went to the Fox News website and watched some video of their news coverage, and a bit of Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity. It was all worse than I might have imagined. I didn’t see a story that didn’t carry some kind of spin or […]