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William M. Arkin
"Ladies and gentleman, this is your enemy,” Boykin said to the congregation as he flashed his pictures on a screen. “It is the principalities of darkness It is a demonic presence in that city that God revealed to me as the enemy.”
Praful Bidwai
As India and Pakistan ready their nuclear arsenals for deployment, their leaders seem to be slipping into denial mode, refusing to acknowledge that they are being inexorably sucked into a dangerous, and potentially ruinous, nuclear arms race.
The Guardian
"Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.” While, for George Bush, the war against Iraq represented the modern version of “Cry ‘Havoc!’, and let slip the dogs of war”, as this ironic editorial from The Guardian shows, the decision by the USA administration to take Shakespeare to entertain and edify the occupation forces in Iraq may yet turn out to prove the rule, “That in the captain’s but a choleric word, which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.”
Robert Reich
World Food Day, which is today, seems an appropriate occasion to consider both where our food comes from and also who’s hungry in the world. Rich countries spend hundreds of billions a year subsidizing their farmers, making it almost impossible for poor nations to compete. By blocking access to the market, rich nations end up depriving poor nations of an opportunity to improve their living standards.
al-Jazeerah
Lyndon LaRouche, one of only two Democratic Party Presidential candidates certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) as qualified for federal matching funds, issued a strong warning today that the world is facing a major eruption of war in the Near East in the immediate weeks ahead, unless President Bush can be forced to intervene forcefully and publicly, to curb Israel’s breakaway ally regime under Ariel Sharon.
James P. Pinkerton
There’s nothing like a war to bring out the inner George Orwell in a government. In ways little and small, Uncle Sam has been morphing into Big Brother - spinning the news, even, apparently, manufacturing news.
United Press International
A powerful bomb exploded beside a bullet-proof USA Embassy car Wednesday, killing three suspected CIA agents. Local militias unusually fail to accept responsibility.
Mark Carnegie
USA ambassador to the United Nations, John Negroponte, vetoes a resolution condemning Israel’s internationally illegal practices for the second time in two months.
Andrew Simms
The number of people seeking refuge as a result of environmental disaster is set to increase dramatically over the coming years. Ironically, given current attitudes, we in Britain will resist accommodating them, and yet they will have become refugees as a direct result of the way we in the west live. Global warming - more than war or political upheaval - stands to displace millions. And climate change is being driven by our fossil fuel-intensive lifestyles.
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