This is from AFP.Of course U.S. credibility apparently never suffers after invading Iraq etc. etc. Interesting that Nicaragua also recognised South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Probably this is pay back by the former Sandanistas for U.S. support for the con...

This is from the Globe and Mail (Canada). This is an interesting statement from the U.S. ambassador to Russia. Certainly the mainstream western press has on the whole said little about the Georgian role in starting the fracas. While Russia may rightl...

This is a very thoughtful and well reasoned article that recommends the US withdraw from Afghanistan. Before recommending his own view Polk considers in some detail what will be the likely result if one of the other four choices he identifies were...

No doubt the US hopes to use the Awakening movement in Iraq as a model. Recent events in Iraq show that once payment is stopped problems immediately begin to crop up. You have a trained armed militia that could turn against the government if things do...

This is typical of the evasive doubletalk coming out of the Obama administration on Honduras. It seems clear that the administration wants the whole issue out of the news and will quietly recognise the results of the election and pressure other...

Just one more skit in the farce that is the US brokered agreement to solve the Honduran crisis. Zelaya has already said that the agreement is dead and that even if the Congress does reinstate in a vote to be taken after the elections he will not accept...

Of course this release by the AFL-CIO will get little publicity unless Glenn Beck decides it shows the AFL-CIO is supporting Chavez and communism or something! The stance of the USA at present is to preserve a deafening silence as more pressing issues...