Ukraine President Yushchenko rejects US anti-missile system By DPA, earthtimes.org Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko on Thursday rejected any discussion of deployment of US anti-missile systems to his country, ending months of waffling by leaders of the former Soviet republic. The Ukrainian politician who is generally liked in Washington for his support of democratic government and…
By Susan Crabtree, thehill.com A Justice Department official pledged that the ongoing investigation into disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff’s activities and connections to several sitting lawmakers would be handled fairly and without political interference, despite the ongoing controversy over the firing of eight U.S. attorneys last year and questions about whether they were dismissed for purely…
By Paul Shukovsky, Tracy Johnson and Daniel Lathrop The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Thousands of white-collar criminals across the country are no longer being prosecuted in federal court – and, in many cases, not at all – leaving a trail of frustrated victims and potentially billions of dollars in fraud and theft losses. It is the untold…
AFP.com The US-led and British-backed war on terror is only fuelling more violence by focusing on military solutions rather than on root causes, a think tank warned Wednesday. “The ‘war on terror’ is failing and actually increasing the likelihood of more terrorist attacks,” the Oxford Research Group said in its study, titled “Beyond Terror: The…
