Monthly Archives: January 2010

The Militarization of Emergency Aid to Haiti: Is it a Humanitarian Operation or an Invasion/Occupation? by Michel Chossudovsky Global Research January 15, 2010 Haiti has a longstanding history of US military intervention and occupation going back to the beginning of … Continue reading →

Washington works the Af-Pak-India triangle By Zahid U Kramet Asia Times Jan 30, 2010 LAHORE – The United States’ Af-Pak special envoy, Richard Holbrooke, and US Defense Secretary Robert Gates have been running from pillar to post between Afghanistan, Pakistan … Continue reading →

Better alive than dead By Farooq Hameed Asia Times Jan 29, 2010 Osama bin Laden is again in the headlines after a long absence. In what is said to be his most recent audio message, aired on al-Jazeera satellite television, … Continue reading →

Circles within circles around the Taliban By M K Bhadrakumar Asia Times Jan 28, 2010 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s attention is likely to be divided as he hosts long-awaited international deliberations in London on the war in Afghanistan on … Continue reading →

Troop surge ‘supports peace deal’ By Gareth Porter Asia Times Jan 28, 2010 KABUL – General Stanley McChrystal’s cautiously worded support for a negotiated settlement with the Taliban leadership is only the first public signal of a policy decision by … Continue reading →

World Bank aims to earn stripes through tiger summit By Marwaan Macan-Markar Asia Times Jan 26, 2010 BANGKOK – An international campaign to save the tiger, one of Asia’s iconic wild animals, has been chosen as the place for the … Continue reading →

Whither Sri Lanka? By Asoka Bandarage Asia Times Jan 26, 2010 Given changing geopolitical alliances and the increasing importance of Sri Lanka’s strategic location in the Indian Ocean, the outcome of the presidential elections on Tuesday will be decisive domestically, … Continue reading →

Iranian elephant in the Iraqi room By Sreeram Chaulia Asia Times Jan 23, 2010 The kerfuffle triggered in Iraq by a government panel’s recent disqualification of over 500 candidates from the parliamentary elections in March has engendered a new crisis … Continue reading →

Iron fist wrapped in the hand that gives By Willy Lam Asia Times Jan 23, 2010 The Hu Jintao administration has significantly tightened policy over Tibet in an apparent attempt to ensure the proverbial “long reign and perennial stability” of … Continue reading →

With Nuclear, Conventional Arms Pacts Stalled, U.S. Moves Missiles And Troops To Russian Border Rick Rozoff Stop NATO January 22, 2010 2010 is proceeding in a manner more befitting the third month of the year, named after the Roman god … Continue reading →