Saturday’s presidential election in Taiwan will be close. The last crop of opinion polls (which were prohibited during the ten days prior to the election) showed incumbent Chen Shui-bian had closed to a statistical tie with the KMT candidate, Lien…
NATO is sending additional troops to quell the violence in Kosovo, which the OSCE believes was organized. In August, Rumsfeld suggested we reduce U.S. forces in Bosnia and Kosovo. It reminds me of when Governor Bush campaigned on withdrawing all…
MoveOn.org has a new ad out that works Rumsfeld over his claim that neither he nor the President described Iraq as an imminent threat. Tom Friedman confronts Rumsfeld with two quotes from the SECDEF using “imminent” and “immediate,” leaving SECDEF…
Ireland, Sweden and Canada, among other states addressing the CD, expressed concern about the “tendency for some Members of the [Non Proliferation] Treaty to stress its non-proliferation aspects to the neglect of the disarmament provisions of the NPT” in the…
First, claiming this election is a victory for Al-Qaeda is no different than claiming that electing Kerry is a victory for Al Qaeda. The PP lost the election because enough voters believe the PP lied about the presence of WMD…
Rice just declined to testify before the 9/11 commission, “not a matter of preference; this is a matter of principle. It has long been a legal and constitutional principle that assistants to the president, the presidential staff, do not testify…
Well, still using my inadequate Spanish, El Pais is calling the Spanish election for the Socialists. BBC is reporting that the Socialists will likely win. This is a defeat for the Bush Administration which, through clumsy diplomacy, has now ensured…
Reuters is reporting that the Spanish government, in the hours after the Madrid attacks, told its ambassadors to “use any opportunity to confirm ETA’s responsibility for these brutal attacks, thus helping to dissipate any type of doubt that certain interested…
The print edition of The Progressive has positive reviews of Paul Shambroom’s collection of photographs, Face to Face with the Bomb, and Errol Morris’ film, Fog of War. I reccomend both, especially Face to Face with the Bomb – not…
Defense News.com (subscription) reports that MDA has delayed the Near Field Infrared Experiment (NFIRE) to early 2006. Victoria Samson wrote a nice summary for the CDI Space Security Update. NFIRE is a risk reduction effort for the space-based interceptor and…
