by Chandra Muzaffar
As the protests fizzle out in the wake of the military junta?s violent crackdown, many are wondering whether there is any hope for change in Myanmar. Are the people of Myanmar condemned to eternal suffering? Is their ordeal and anguish some sort of bad karma from which there is no escape?
There is no [...]

By Chandra Muzaffar
Of the various proposals made so far on how one could coax the military junta in Myanmar to heed the voice of the people, the most feasible is perhaps the one that seeks to convene a conference of heads of Asian governments to be held under the auspices of the United Nations. The [...]

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By Philip S. Golub

by Scott Shane, David Johnston, & James Risen
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 – When the Justice Department publicly declared torture ?abhorrent? in a legal opinion in December 2004, the Bush administration appeared to have abandoned its assertion of nearly unlimited presidential authority to order brutal interrogations.
But soon after

By Thom Shanker
The United States maintained its role as the leading supplier of weapons to the developing world in 2006, followed by Russia and Britain, according to a Congressional study to be released Monday. Pakistan,