Marine to Lead Joint Chiefs
April 22, 2005 | Leave a Comment
WASHINGTON Apr 22, 2005 — President Bush on Friday named Marine Gen. Peter Pace, who quietly helped shape the Pentagon’s role in the global war on terrorism, to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Pace, 59, would succeed Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers. He was expected to win easy Senate [...]
California’s Third Rail
April 20, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger urged federal officials to beef up enforcement and secure the state’s borders against illegal immigrants, saying Tuesday they must clean up a “lax situation” instead of “trying to run the other way.” “Close the borders. Close the borders in California, and all across Mexico and the United States,” Schwarzenegger told hundreds of [...]
East Asia Heat
April 18, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Thousands of people have taken to the streets of the Chinese city of Shanghai in the latest in a series of anti-Japanese demonstrations. Protesters carrying Chinese flags surrounded the Japanese consulate throwing stones and other missiles. They are angry at Japan’s approval of school textbooks which they say play down Japanese wartime atrocities. The protests [...]
Hezbollahland
April 15, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Exactly 30 years ago Palestinians attacked a church. Radical Christians retaliated with a massacre on a bus. And so began Lebanon’s plunge into the hell of civil war that pulverized the city center to powder and carved the rest of Beirut (and the rest of the country) into besieged ethnic cantons ruled by militias. The [...]
Earthquakes, Tsunami, and Volcanoes, Oh My!
April 13, 2005 | Leave a Comment
AIR BATUMBO, Indonesia (AP) – Scientists have warned hikers and visitors to stay away from two more Indonesian volcanoes, a day after another volcano spewed ash on disaster-stricken Sumatra island and forced the evacuation of some 25,000 people. Sensors on the slopes of the two mountains — Anak Krakatoa on the southern tip of Sumatra [...]