Violence in Iraq is greater than the White House has acknowledged, and the outlook is even bleaker for 2007, author and journalist Bob Woodward said in comments to air Sunday night on CBS television's 60 Minutes. Woodward said U.S. troops and their allies are being attacked, on average, every 15 minutes.
The Foreign Relations Department said it was "deeply worried" about the proposal, which is working its way through the Senate, adding it will "increase tension in border communities.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Daniel Ellsberg, the former U.S. Defence Department official who leaked secret Pentagon documents during the Vietnam war, was among the winners of the "alternative Nobels" announced yesterday. Ellsberg shared the US$273,000 Right Livelihood Award with Indian women's rights activist Rut...
... with Indian women's rights activist Ruth Manorama and a poetry festival in Medellin, Colombia. -- Co...