News From The Asia Times

A very good source of news and opinion and commentary, good, that is, if you are tired of the usual parochial and embedded stuff from the compliant American media. 1 In the trenches of the new cold war http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/ID28Ag01.html excerpt: "...But the Russians point out that ever since December 13, 2001, when President George W Bush announced that the US was unilaterally pulling out of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, Washington has followed a consistent pattern of deploying along Russian borders radars capable of spotting missile launches and sending targeting data to interceptors. (The first such radar, code-named Have Stare, was stationed in Norway.) " This article deals with the Government efforts to extend the Cold War, to create the state of constant war. 2 The Middle East road to impeachment http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/ID27Ak04.html "...an impeachment bill introduced by Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich. Consisting of three articles of impeachment, the proposed bill faults Cheney for (a) his distortions of facts about Iraq's possession of WMD and triggering an unprovoked war on Iraq based on those lies, (b) Cheney's lies about Saddam Hussein's ties to al-Qaeda, and (c) Cheney's quest to take the United States into another war against Iran through similar lies. " This is about impeaching Dick Cheney. 3 The world and Virginia Tech http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/ID26Ak01.html "...Despite the negligible coverage of overseas opinion about this event in the mainstream US media, there did appear one comprehensive overview of how foreigners reacted to the killings - a Molly Moore piece in the Washington Post. "Nowhere, perhaps," Moore wrote, "were foreign reactions to the Virginia shooting more impassioned than in Iraq, where many residents blame the United States for the daily killings in their schools, streets and markets. 'It is a little incident if we compare it with the disasters that have happened in Iraq,' said Ranya Riyad, 19, a college student in Baghdad. 'We are dying every day.' "