IPS Inter Press Service - Neo-ConsThe Neo-Conservative Ascendancy in the Bush AdministrationRIGHTS-US: Guantnamo Suspects Face Death, Fair Trial Doubts- (Found July 2, 2008 ) NEW YORK, Feb 19 (IPS) - As the U.S. moves towards holding death-sentence trials for six Guantnamo Bay detainees alleged to have plotted the Sep. 11 attacks, legal scholars and human rights advocates are questioning not only the six-year-long process and timing of the charges, but also whether the accused could ever receive fair trials.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41255 POLITICS-CUBA: U.S. Awaits Its Own Transition to Review Policy- (Found July 2, 2008 ) WASHINGTON, Feb 19 (IPS) - Despite Tuesdays historic announcement by President Fidel Castro that he is retiring from public office, U.S. citizens must await the departure of their own sitting president 11 months from now before Washingtons nearly 50-year hostility toward the Caribbean island is likely to be reviewed. Even then, change is not guaranteed.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41257 US: Overstretched Forces Concern Officers- (Found July 2, 2008 ) WASHINGTON, Feb 19 (IPS) - The U.S. military is "severely strained" by two large-scale occupations in the Middle East, other troop deployments, and problems recruiting, according to a new survey of military officers published by Foreign Policy magazine and the centrist think-tank Centre for a New American Strategy.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41260 CUBA: Cuban-Americans React to Fidels Resignation- (Found July 2, 2008 ) TAMPA, Feb 20 (IPS) - Cuban President Fidel Castros decision to resign his political office was met with a wide range of emotions and feelings in Florida, home to the largest Cuban population outside Cuba.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41278 PAKISTAN: U.S. Reactions To Election Results Mixed- (Found July 2, 2008 ) WASHINGTON, Feb 20 (IPS) - Forty-eight hours after Pakistani voters overwhelmingly repudiated the Bush administrations "man in Islamabad", President Pervez Musharraf, Washington seemed uncertain about whether the election results marked a setback to U.S. strategic interests or an advance.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41279 POLITICS-US: Neo-cons Fine-Tune Iran Angle- (Found July 2, 2008 ) WASHINGTON, Feb 25 (IPS) - A new report published by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) think-tank purports to show the reach and scope of Iranian influence across the Middle East, but stops short of drawing conclusions about Tehran's intentions or grand strategy.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41337 POLITICS: A Textbook Tale of Two Reports- (Found July 2, 2008 ) WASHINGTON, Mar 21 (IPS) - Iran's post-revolutionary education system continues to teach children to discriminate against women and religious minorities, according to a report released Tuesday by Freedom House, a Washington-based nonprofit group that seeks to encourage democracy in the world.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41689 POLITICS-US: McCain's Vietnam Lessons Unlearned- (Found July 2, 2008 ) WASHINGTON, Apr 16 (IPS) - Throughout a long career in politics, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain has had his foreign policy shaped by his and the United States' experience in the Vietnam War.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42012 POLITICS-US: Hawks Resurgent- (Found July 2, 2008 ) WASHINGTON, Apr 25 (IPS) - Are the latest accusations and tough language leveled against Iran, Syria, and North Korea evidence of a resurgence by the remaining hawks in the administration of President George W. Bush hoping for a final confrontation against one or more members of the revised "axis of evil" before his term ends next Januaryhttp://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42135 POLITICS-US: Pentagon Targeted Iran for Regime Change after 911- (Found July 2, 2008 ) WASHINGTON, May 5 (IPS) - Three weeks after the 911 terror attacks, former U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld established an official military objective of not only removing the Saddam Hussein regime by force but overturning the regime in Iran, as well as in Syria and four other countries in the Middle East, according to a document quoted extensively in then Undersecretary of Defence for Policy Douglas Feith's recently published account of the Iraq war decisions.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42241 |