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A question for Illinois State Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic frontrunner (an absolute shoe-in, in fact) in the race to capture the…
David Peterson
I am an independent writer and researcher based in Chicago.
Of every UN member state to address the General Assembly Friday, September 24 (19 in all, at least by my count), not…
Fitting, isn’t it, that upon landing on U.S. soil Wednesday, the Interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi should visit the White House…
Has anyone ever checked out the website of the International Atomic Energy Agency? But especially during weeks like the present one, when…
Several hours ago, the UN Secretary-General engaged in the annual ringing of the Peace Bell on the Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, outside the…
One subtle indicator of the relative dominance of a state in the world is the number of successes it enjoys at imposing…
A friend just called to my attention “The Kafka Files #172,” a semi-regular series of email dispatches by a friend of his…
Closing out his weekly radio address Saturday during a campaign stop in North Carolina, the American President announced that “At the United…
Might anyone care to hazard a guess why the Secretary-General today (though only in the voice of his spokesman, Fred Eckhard) felt…
If the American war over Iraq in the spring of 2003 truly was “illegal,” as the UN Secretary-General asserted yesterday during an…