Russ McBee

In the wake of Benazir Bhutto's assassination in Rawalpindi, Pakistan yesterday, the country continues to descend into chaos. President Pervez Musharraf has some tough choices ahead of him, none of which appear particularly appealing. The death of Musharraf's leading opponent comes just eleven days before parliamentary elections, in which her ...

For the last couple of years, the neocons and their puppets have been shouting about the dangers allegedly posed by Iran and its oh-so-scary nuclear program. Just two months ago, President Bush said this about the threat that Iran's nuclear program represented: Q But you definitively believe Iran wants to build a nuclear weapon? THE ...

In a perfect example of Brownian motion as a template for diplomacy and international relations, the Bush Administration has proposed the sale of $20 billion worth of satellite-guided missiles to Saudi Arabia. That would be the same Saudi Arabia from which 15 of the 19 September 11 hijackers originated, and the same Saudi Arabia which is busy ...

Almost all of modern history has transpired as the result of a single gunshot fired in Sarajevo in 1914. When the Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip assassinated the Hapsburg Archduke Ferdinand, Bismarck's famous prediction came true: that a catastrophic war would engulf all of Europe, and that it would start ''over some damn foolish thing in the ...

Only a week after the car-bombing at the Glasgow airport, BBC Scotland aired a program which brought Muslims and local and national government leaders to the same stage to discuss terrorism, the issues facing Middle Eastern immigrants in Scotland, and the recent bombings. Imagine that. Dialogue. What a concept. One of the panelists, a human ...

Yesterday, after Tony Blair stepped down as Prime Minister of the UK, he immediately took on his new job as Middle East envoy for the Quartet (the US, the UN, the EU, and Russia). The focus of the Quartet, and Blair's new job description, is to find a way toward a two-state solution to the Israel/Palestinian problem. The Quartet seem to be ...