Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
The Bush administration may be relieved, but some Pakistanis fear the worst when Pakistan's parliament meets Saturday for the almost certain election of Asif Ali Zardari as president, succeeding the ousted former military leader Pervez Musharraf.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
The Bush administration may be relieved, but some Pakistanis fear the worst when Pakistan's parliament meets Saturday for the almost certain election of Asif Ali Zardari as president, succeeding the ousted former military leader Pervez Musharraf.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
Former Military Leader Brings Passion for Democracy, Free Markets DALLAS, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- General Tommy Franks has joined the board of directors of the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA). Fran...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
Former Military Leader Brings Passion for Democracy, Free Markets DALLAS, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- General Tommy Franks has joined the board of directors of the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA). Fran...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
Former Military Leader Brings Passion for Democracy, Free Markets DALLAS, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- General Tommy Franks has joined the board of directors of the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA). Franks, former Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Central Command, is best known for his leadership of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom in Iraq. "We...
A Step At A Time (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
At Prague Watchdog, Dzhambulat Are devotes his weekly review to the recent slaying in Moscow of a Chechen politician and former military leader, and concludes: There will obviously be no revolution in Chechnya because of the murder of Ruslan Yamadayev, let alone of his brother Sulim. To the Chechen man in the street these events [...]
Box Turtle Bulletin (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Poor Elaine Donnelly. Her fight to keep gay folks from serving their country through military service is becoming a lonely and thankless task. She showed up at Congress back in July only to find that it’s a different place than she’d like it to be. Gosh, anti-gay ranting just doesn’t get the response it [...]
Hindu (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
Thaksin’s kin is Thai Premier P. S. Suryanarayana SINGAPORE: Thailand’s Acting Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat was on Wednesday elected to the top post by the House of Representatives in Bangkok. His first priority in office will be the search for ways to defuse the unrest over “proxy politics,” which is seen to be orchestrated by self-exiled Thaksin Shinawatra, who was deposed in the 2006 military...
BoRev.Net (Free subscription) | 09/14/2008
... already in way over its head in the Middle East and with Russia. What we have here are two leaders badly in need of an external threat to rally their domestic bases at a volatile political moment." Right, of course. It had nothing to do with US aggression. That makes tons of sense, considering: The US ambassador to Bolivia denied he was even meeting with separatist leaders at all...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
Will Pakistan change with a new president'Political leaders in Pakistan are voting to elect a new president following the resignation of the former military leader Pervez Musharraf. Send us your views The winner is expected to be Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of the late Benazir Bhutto, whose assassination last December catapulted him to the centre of political power....
LA Times (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
The military takeover kicked off Argentina's 1976-83 dirty war against suspected leftists, which resulted in as many as 30,000 killings, according to human rights activists. Many bodies have never been found.Bussi, who served as both a general and military governor in Tucuman, acquired a reputation for being especially brutal amid a regime notorious for its cruelty. He allegedly oversaw...
