Called “Obama’s Wars,” Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Bob Woodward’s new book on President Obama focuses on the Afghanistan war and the worldwide battle against terrorism, but not the top issue in the midterm elections — the…
Category: Regions
A human rights watchdog has slammed the U.N. secretary-general for failing to press China’s president to release an imprisoned Nobel Peace laureate, accusing Ban Ki-Moon of caring more about his own re-election than the protection…
Japan has expressed anger over Russian President Dmitri Medvedev’s visit to the Southern Kuril Islands. Japan considers the Kuril Islands to be its Northern territories. Medvedev is the first Russian or Soviet leader to ever…
Posted by Tom Engelhardt [Note for TomDispatch Readers: And I do mean readers! A TomDispatch “library” of four popular new books is taking shape for fall 2010. The first is The Girl with the Dragon…
Posted by Dilip Hiro This has been the week of American decline at TomDispatch. On Sunday, Michael Klare considered that decline in the context of the rise of China as an energy superpower. I gave…
By Anna Varfolomeeva BEIJING— (October 25 —M4relay) – The Arabic term of jihad, which is usually translated by the mass media as “the Holy war,” is commonly used today, especially in the context of war…
The World Trade Organization (WTO) issued a report of the panel on Wednesday, supporting China over its complaint against measures taken by the United States which have affected imports of poultry from China, reported China…
*His land reforms and not dictatorship or human rights abuses stand out as the reason for the economic sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the United States, Britain and other Western countries. Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe…
CNN.com on August 23, 2010 carried a report titled: “Can Africa break its resource curse?” by its London based reporter Mark Tutton. According to the report, “many African countries are blessed with oil and mineral…
“We have about 50% of the world’s wealth but only 6.3% of its population… In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security. To do so, we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and day-dreaming; and our attention will