NOAA moves to police seas

By Traver Riggins

As part of their continuing effort to take a lead in managing global fisheries, officials with the U.S. National Oceanographic and Atmospher

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"… a.By documenting effectively enforced reforms — reforms held to U.S. and United Nations management standards — NOAA has certified the six countries it pegged wi …"

The climate change lobby explosion

By Marianne Lavelle

Will thousands of lobbyists imperil action on global warming?

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"… he approach international negotiators took on climate in a deal inked at a United Nations conference in Kyoto, Japan. The reason for the unanimous vote, however, wa …"

Osama Bin Laden: How the U.S. helped midwife a terrorist

By Ahmed Rashid

A history of U.S. involvement in Central Asia, leading to the rise of Muslim radicals in 43 countries.
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Wages of war

By Ahmed Rashid

LAHORE, Pakistan, August 5, 1999 — Two decades of fighting have destroyed Afghanistan's normal economy. In its place has grown a criminal ec

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"… dvance for their poppy crop to see them through the long winter months.The United Nations Drug Control Programme says that 96% of the 2,100 metric tonnes of opium p …"

Final offensive?

By Ahmed Rashid

LAHORE, Pakistan, August 5, 1999 — Since the failed peace talks, the Taliban have been massing their forces along a wide east-west arc 20 ki

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"… pposition, the Northern Alliance, in mid-July. But they held off while the United Nations made a last, desperate attempt to bring the two sides to the negotiating t …"

Afghanistan: Heart of darkness

By Ahmed Rashid

LAHORE, Pakistan, August 5, 1999 — As the Taliban launch a new offensive against opposition forces, the threat which this Islamic regime pos

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"… litary support to the Northern Alliance, which still holds Afghanistan’s United Nations seat and is the last organized opposition to the Taliban.The Taliban are a …"

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Turkish military cooperation vital for Libyan intervention

By Laurel Adams

After 60 years of military dependence on US, Turkey starting to break away

Angola-gate case goes on without ‘extraordinary operator’

By Peter Newbatt Smith

That was then . . . One chapter of the Center’s 2002 report Making a Killing: The Business of War was devoted to Arcadi Gaydamak, whom we de

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"… an countries to the government of Angola, then engaged in a civil war. The United Nations had imposed an arms embargo on Angola, and France maintained that Falconeâ …"

U.S. nuclear aid may be going to countries like Iran and Syria

By Laurel Adams

The State Department is refusing to block United Nations nuclear technology aid to countries that are on the U.S. list of state sponsors of

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"… 011, entry in the Daily Watchdog. …"

Lessons from previous no-fly zones show complexity of Libya intervention

By Laurel Adams

History shows that no-fly zones are a mixed bag as a military strategy, according to an analysis by the Congressional Research Service, even

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