This sounds like a bad B-movie plot Bacardi accused of campaign to oust Castro Rum company boss ‘bankrolled CIA mission to kill Cuban leader’ The Bacardi rum company has been engaged for more than 40 years in clandestine attempts to…

I’m guessing Ashcroft won’t apologize ‘Dirty bomber’ has no links to al-Qaeda The investigation into Jose Padilla, who is accused of planning to detonate a radioactive “dirty bomb” in the United States, has found no evidence that he was preparing such…

Confused on the concept, eh? Investors Applaud AOL Time Warner’s Honesty NEW YORK — Despite warnings from Wall Street analysts, shares of troubled entertainment behemoth AOL Time Warner Inc. (AOL) rose Thursday as investors applauded the company’s recent moves to come…

Anti-Baghdad Talks Shunned by Top Kurd The most powerful Kurdish chieftain in northern Iraq, Massoud Barzani, refused the Bush administration’s invitation to attend the meeting of Iraqi opposition figures at the White House last week, Kurdish and administration officials said…

Attorney general shows himself as a menace to liberty, L.A. TimesEven moderates are speaking out against Ashcroft, as witness this L.A. Times op-ed piece. Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft’s announced desire for camps for U.S. citizens he deems to be “enemy combatants”…

Yet another failed business Dubya was involved withIt appears Dubya is a even worse businessman than Bill Simon, even if both politicians want us to think otherwise. DAVID IGNATIUS, INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE – It’s not something George W. Bush talks…

27 Percent Drop in Immigration to Israel ‘Only 14,900 new immigrants arrived in Israel in the first half of 2002 – a 27 percent drop compared to the corresponding period in 2001 and 45 percent below the number that arrived…

Afghanistan is on the brink of another disasterAnother Vietnam in the making? Kabul is alive with the kind of rumours that can never be substantiated but that stick in the mind, just as the dust of Kandahar stays in the…