Jesse
Helms fears Clinton as U.N. head
Bill Clinton in charge of the United Nations? That's the
image former U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms is dangling in front
of his ardent supporters in a letter aimed at raising
money for his senatorial library. Sun Sentinel
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Mexican
Emigrants Send $16 Billion Home
Mexican labourers living in the US sent a record $16.6bn
(£8.82bn) home last year. The Bank of Mexico said
that remittances grew 24% last year and now represent
the country's second-biggest source of income after oil.
- BBC
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Bush
Promotes 'Nuclear War Hawks' To Key Positions
A group of hardline officials known as ìnuclear
hawksî is being promoted in a shake-up of the Bush
administration's arms control and non-proliferation teams,
according to officials close to the administration. -
Financial Times - UK
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A
Nation Rocked to Sleep — Commentary
For three decades, since the end of the Vietnam War, veterans
of that bloody fiasco have said, “been there, done
that,” implying Americans should listen to what they
have to say about war. - Intervention Magazine
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Assaults
on Border Agents Rising Fast
An already volatile U.S.-Mexico border climate worsened
in the past week as U.S. Border Patrol agents in the Tucson
sector came under gunfire three times, with one shot so
close the agent heard the bullet whiz past. - Arizona
Daily Star
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Egypt
to Host Israeli-Palestinian Summit
In a bold initiative, Egypt summoned
the leaders of Israel, the Palestinians and Jordan on
Wednesday to a long-awaited summit next week, and they
agreed to attend
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Fox
News Buys Al-Jazeera
Under intense pressure from the Bush
administration to sell its controversial Al-Jazeera
network, the nation of Qatar stunned the television
industry today by agreeing to sell the broadcast company
to Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Channel.
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Half
of Bankruptcy Due to Medical Bills -- U.S. Study
Half of all U.S. bankruptcies are caused
by soaring medical bills and most people sent into debt
by illness are middle-class workers with health insurance,
researchers said on Wednesday.
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UHP
Troopers Learn to Draw Blood From Suspects
Some Utah Highway Patrol troopers are
becoming medically certified to draw blood from motorists
they suspect of driving while intoxicated.
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Rice
Sees Pressure Increasing on Iran
Iran is under growing international
pressure to renounce its suspected nuclear arms programs,
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday,
but she refused to rule out seeking UN action.
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New
book says U.S. has five secret military bases in Israel
"Code Names," written by journalist
William Arkin, a former U.S. intelligence official,
says there have been secret ties between the U.S. and
Israel since the September 11, 2001 attacks.
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Over
5 Million Germans Jobless in January
A senior German official said Wednesday
that the country's unemployment would reach a new post-World
War II record in January, with more than 5 million people
out of work for the first time.
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Tests
Said to Tie Deal on Uranium to North Korea
Scientific tests have led American
intelligence agencies and government scientists to conclude
with near certainty that North Korea sold processed
uranium to Libya, bolstering earlier indications that
the reclusive state exported sensitive fuel for atomic
weapons, according to officials with access to the intelligence.
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One-third
of EU citizens have not heard of EU Constitution
The most recent Eurobarometer survey
has revealed high levels of ignorance among Europeans
about the new treaty. As the ratification process heats
up, the EU is facing the urgent task of informing the
public.
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Rumsfeld
Seeks to Revive Burrowing Nuclear Bomb
Bush budget may fund program that Congress
cut.
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Deadly
Delay on Darfur
The atrocities in Darfur continue unabated.
Just last week, the Sudanese air force reportedly bombed
parts of South Darfur, killing nearly a hundred villagers
and forcing hundreds more to flee their homes.There
has been much talk about stopping these crimes but to
date, little real effort to do so -Joanne Mariner/FindLaw
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China
yawns at Bush freedom rhetoric
Beijing is confident that China is
becoming indispensable to the United States, regardless
of Bush's rhetoric in his second inaugural speech, which
some critics have claimed bordered on hypocrisy -Antoaneta
Bezlova/Asia Times
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Never
mind the party, let's party!
They know and feel they are on the
way up, while superpower US is seen to be on the way
down.They know their economic model works. "First we
emulate, then we overtake" is the mantra in economic
and business circles.They know they have few reasons
to complain about the party -Pepe Escobar/Asia Times
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Judith
Miller and Ahmad Chalabi
These revelations stunned Hardball
host Chris Matthews and a nation of Miller skeptics.
Matthews: "So where - we have an election over there.
And the same day we're holding an election, the same
week, we are plotting which ministries to give to Chalabi,
the guy who talked us into the war in the first place."
-Slate
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Big
challenge for Chertoff
...questions have been raised about
whether Michael Chertoff can run the massive federal
Department of Homeland Security, an agency in such disarray
that two years after it was created some experts and
lawmakers are calling for its overhaul -NewsDay
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CIA
Rectifying PreWar Estimates on Iraq WMD
The CIA is publishing a series of classified
reports revising its prewar intelligence assessments
of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, an intelligence
official said on Tuesday.
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Rumsfeld
on the Iraqi Elections
Partial transcript, "Special Report
with Brit Hume," Feb. 1, 2005.--FOX News
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Yukos
deal backed by $6bn loan from China
CHINA has underwritten the Kremlin’s
nationalisation of one of Russia’s major oil producers
in a $6 billion (£3.2 billion) deal over supplies -London
Times
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A
RAW hand
What goes on at RAW, India's external
intelligence agency? One of the important and sensitive
responsibilities of the head of RandAW is to maintain
the network of its liaisons with the intelligence agencies
of other countries.Not infrequently, the chief executives
in many countries use this network for informal and
secret interactions with their counterparts in other
countries through the intelligence chiefs of those countries
-C K Kutty/Rediff IN
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No
Surprises Expected in Upcoming Fed Interest Rate Announcement
This Wednesday the Federal Open Market
Committee of the Federal Reserve will conclude a meeting
and issue decisions on key pieces of monetary policy,
such as the target level of the Federal Funds rate,
a key benchmark interest rate in the United States -PRWeb
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White
House Search for Intelligence Chief Stalled
But some intelligence experts, both
inside and outside government, said the search has been
difficult because experienced intelligence hands are
reluctant to consider a position they consider ill-defined
in terms of authority over the intelligence community
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New
fight over TSA screeners
The chairman of the House aviation
subcommittee said Monday he is drafting a proposal to
get rid of all government security screeners at the
nation's airports and replace them with employees working
for private companies -USA Today
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