FT.com:
Liberals and neo-conservatives have come together in an unlikely alliance in Washington. Driven by shared concerns over the erosion of democracy in Russia, both camps are piling the pressure on President George W. Bush to take a tough line at his meeting with President Vladimir Putin in Slovakia on Friday.
Yet within Mr Bush’s own party […]
Nicholas Kristof has writtena must read column on the Darfur Genocide.
The article includes some very disturbing pictures, so be advised, but I believe that it is important to acknowledge the truth about what is happening.
This archive, including scores of reports by the monitors on the scene, underscores that this slaughter is waged by […]
This Washington Post article is very interesting:
The leader of this Lebanese intifada is Walid Jumblatt, the patriarch of the Druze Muslim community and, until recently, a man who accommodated Syria’s occupation. But something snapped for Jumblatt last year, when the Syrians overruled the Lebanese constitution and forced the reelection of their front man in Lebanon, […]
Kofi Annan had an editorial in the Wall Street Journal today. Much of is is eminently fiskable, but I won’t do that here. Instead, I’ll focus on his conclusion which I very much agree with:
In my eight years as secretary-general, I had already done a lot–with the support of member states, often led by […]
Rob of Fine? Why Fine? has some good stuff on events in Syria/Lebanon and Egypt.
Click through to this important info on a couple of Iranian bloggers in trouble with the theocrats there.
The least we can do is publicly proclaim our support.
Jonathan Alter writes in NewsWeek:
Jim Taricani, a local TV news reporter in providence, R.I., cannot go to the grocery store. Because Taricani is a heart-transplant survivor, a federal judge is letting him serve his six-month prison sentence at home, but he is prohibited from using the Internet, talking to the media or leaving the house […]
This is interesting, although it is too soon to say if it will pan out.
U.S. diplomats and intelligence officers are conducting secret talks with Iraq’s Sunni insurgents on ways to end fighting there, Time magazine reported on Sunday, citing Pentagon and other sources.
The Bush administration has said it would not negotiate with Iraqi fighters […]
SFGate.com:
Tens of thousands of opposition supporters shouted insults at Syria and demanded the resignation of their pro-Syrian government in a Beirut demonstration Monday, marking a week since the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
Beating drums and waving Lebanese flags, those of their own parties and portraits of past leaders killed during the 1975-90 civil […]
