The policies are matters of priorities. And the priorities of the Bush White House are clear. For killing in Iraq, they spare no expense. For protecting and sustaining life, the cupboards go bare The problem...

The boast that the United States is now the world’s only superpower has a grim undertow in the area of human rights; no one can tell Washington what to do or not do, no matter...

Nearly 96 hours after the Observer had reported it, I called Times deputy foreign editor Alison Smale and asked why not. ‘We would normally expect to do our own intelligence reporting,’ Smale replied. She added...

What is critical to me is that the process is a two-way street.

And realities on the ground in the Middle East are undermining the fantasy-based policymakers in Washington. So, the Israeli iron fist, backed up by Washington, can do little to sweep away the electoral results from...

Her reality was, so to speak, a crowbar to open the lid on what had been sealed, which is the human dimension. The media and politics don’t engage with death very well. And Bush has...

The Bush rhetoric about democracy has little to do with Washington’s actual policy goals in the Middle East.

They should be fighting the effects of flood waters at home – helping people in the communities they know best – not battling Iraqi people who want them to go away.

The character of the Bush administration is such that the U.S. delegation to the United Nations will — in practice — indignantly refuse to recognize a single standard of human rights whenever such a standard...

This is a classic trade-union stance,

That’s a very different approach to what the CAW has done in the past.

But the U.S. Record, as assessed by independent organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, is reprehensible.