Remembering the Marshall Islands.
As a result of nuclear testing on the Marshall Islands 60 years ago, many Islanders still suffer today. Yet, few Americans know about this shameful chapter of history. June 30, which marks a painful anniversary for many in the South Pacific, is just another day for those unaware of...

Economic sanctions as weapons.
SINCE PRES. CLINTON usurped the previously Republican positions of free trader (China and globally) and successful employer of military might (Iraq and Haiti), the American right has been foundering for a stance on foreign policy. It ranges from the unilateral militarism of Bob Dole ("Lift the arms embargo on Bosnia...

Spotlight on Canadian military exports: Canadian ADATS offered to Greece.
The deal With Department of National Defence cooperation, Oerlikon Aerospace has spent more than two years promoting the sale of Air Defence Anti-Tank Systems (ADATS) for a Greek armed forces requirement for short range air defence systems. The proposed sale includes the supply of ADATS originally purchased...

Sleepwalking in a nuclear minefield: the United States still worships at the altar of nuclear weapons--yet cries 'heresy' when others want to join the sect.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AS THE 21ST CENTURY UNFOLDS, a new truth is gradually being recognized: Nuclear weapons and human security cannot co-exist. Almost two decades after the end of the Cold War, there are still 25,000 nuclear weapons in existence, about 95 percent held by the...

An epidemic of guns.
The world is being flooded by small arms, many of them left over from past wars. But as wars end, the deadly work of guns isn't going away. Killing more people than all the tanks, missiles, bombs, and fighter planes on Earth, these easy-to-buy, easy-to-hide weapons are proliferating in civilian...

ARAB ISRAEL RELATIONS - July 16 - Israel And Hamas 'Call Ceasefire'.
Israel and Hamas have agreed to begin a truce, the first since the Islamist group's takeover of the Gaza Strip a year ago, said Egyptian officials who mediated in the ceasefire. Barring last-minute complications, the truce, set to start at 6am local time, will bring a rare period of...

Global forecast; the top security challenges of 2008.
9780892065141 Global forecast; the top security challenges of 2008. Ed. by Carola McGiffert and Craig Cohen. Ctr. for Strategic...Studies 2007 60 pages $12.95 Paperback JZ6005 Produced by the Center for Strategic...

A marriage made in hell.
EIGHTY people died in the Waco raid last April--including 25 children burned beyond recognition. The raid and the siege that preceded it cost the taxpayers $13 million, and the seven-week trial of 11 surviving Branch Davidians that ended last month in San Antonio cost an additional $1.3 million. The...

IRAQ - Pakistan.
Former PM Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's main opposition leader, on Nov. 17 urged Washington to consider withdrawing aid and military support from the country's military-led regime until a return to democracy is assured. Ms Bhutto's call came hours ahead of the arrival in Pakistan of US Deputy Secretary of State...

India remains undecided on aid to Lanka.
Byline: Rajat Pandit NEW DELHI: India continues to dither about whether to drastically upgrade its ongoing military aid to Sri Lanka to include "offensive capabilities" as well, even as Colombo increasingly turns to Pakistan and China for help in its bloody fight against LTTE. The...