Anybody remember the “Department of Peace” proposal? Representative Dennis Kucinich (R-OH) has proposed legislation to create a DOP; Conservatives ridicule the idea. Even my fellow Democrats in Washington react to the idea with a mixture of derision and embarrassment; One…
The United States has dropped its effort to secure a Security Council exemption for U.S. forces under the ICC, after a revised resolution circulated Tuesday night failed to garner sufficient support. James Cunningham, U.S. deputy ambassador to the U.N., told…
The New York Times reports that the Schlesinger Panel interviewed six people, including Cambone Maj. Gen. Donald Ryder, Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, “and three others.” Britain’s Sunday Telegraph reported that four confidential Red Cross documents implicating senior Pentagon civilians in…
A colleague sent me a Reuters story that so mangles a UNHCR report on the human rights situation in Iraq that I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. The gist of the Reuters story is: While crediting the United…
Bush plans to defend his space exploration initiative in a speech timed to coincide with the release of a report by a presidential commission to review the plan, according to administration sources quoted by United Press International. UPI also reported…
After the Washington Post reported the intelligence community will raise its estimate of the number of North Korean nuclear weapons from “possibly two” to “at least eight”, Colin Powell tells reporters in Berlin that he is “not aware of a…
Today in the Department of Defense, Tuesday, April 27, 2004 Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld hosts an honor cordon to welcome Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Gianfranco Fini to the Pentagon at 10:30 a.m. EDT. The “post-facsist” Fini once praised…
“Citing the backing of President Bush, Sen. Arlen Specter voted Tuesday in the Republican primary, seeking a fifth term and hoping to ward off a strong challenge by Rep. Pat Toomey.” Polls close at 8:00 pm. Democrats have been torn…
The White House has expressed concern about the killing of Dr. Abdel Aziz Rantisi, but affirmed Israel’s right to defend itself. The concern expressed by the White House has a Kissengerian amoralism to it. Here is Condolezza Rice, condemining Israeli…
Looks like it was that bad. Kaiser claims the press conference “aggravated the doubts of a lot of people.” One literate friend quotes Fischer on Amis: The Bush performance “isn’t bad as in not very good or slightly disappointing. It’s…
