21:40
NATO WAR CRIMES IN KOSOVO – THE EVIDENCE
20,000 explosive devices from unexploded NATO cluster bombs were scattered over Kosovo. Criticism is raised that cluster bombs kill more civilians in Kosovo than anti-personnel mines. More details...

21:14
THE SLAUGHTER IN TSARITSINO – THE PROVOCATION OF THE SPECIAL SERVICES?
There are new comments coming about the events, which took place October 30 in the area of Moscow’s Tsaritsino underground station. We would like to remind you in short of what actually happened. A group of young men, about 500 of them, made a slaughter on the market place close to the underground station More details...

20:50
SIR MICHAEL HOWARD: MISTAKE TO DECLARE THIS A 'WAR'
When in the immediate aftermath of the attack on the World Trade Center the American Secretary of State Colin Powell declared that America was 'at war', he made a very natural but a terrible and irrevocable error. Leaders of the Administration have been trying to put it right ever since. More details...

19:57
ALEXANDER GOROBETS: MILITARY GAMES TO SAVE UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT’S IMAGE
Cape of Opuk in the Crimea, which became known after the crash of the Russian Tu-154 passenger airliner, is now a place to gather a lot of military men today. This time there are both Russian and Ukrainian military men there. General Kuzmuk, the former Defense Minister of Ukraine, is absent More details...

19:50
WHAT IS SHEVARDNADZE TO DO?
The political crisis, which the Republic of Georgia’s President Eduard Shevardnadze so hoped to avert, has broken out after all. At today’s extraordinary parliamentary session, Mr. Shevardnadze has announced the Georgian government’s resignation. More details...

19:07
DMITRI LITVINOVICH: STATE MONOPOLY ON VODKA RETURNS TO RUSSIA
The epoch of the primary accumulation of capital has long been left behind in Russia. Today’s businessmen are different from those of hot money hunters of the early 1990s. Present-day businessmen do care about their image. The state also tries to catch up with business and wants to show the West a beautiful glossy wrapping in the form of assurances of business being liberalized and corruption being fought. More details...

18:54
JOSEPH SOBRAN: PATRIOTISM OR NATIONALISM?
This is a season of patriotism, but also of something that is easily mistaken for patriotism; namely, nationalism. More details...

18:05
THE STATE DUMA VOTED: TO WITHDRAW IMMUNITY FROM DEPUTY VLADIMIR GOLOVLEV
The Russian Federation State Duma (the parliament) voted to withdraw the deputy immunity from the Union of Rightist Forces faction member, deputy chairman of the parliamentary committee for budget and revenues, Vladimir Golovlev More details...

17:03
HOW TO EARN TWO MILLION
There is a very simple way to earn 2 million: to seize a children’s hospital, take the personnel and visitors hostages, require ransom, receive it, and then leave. Does it seem impossible? Anything is possible in Russia. Especially when there is a large-scale conspiracy in which law-enforcement officers participate More details...

17:00
COMMUNISTS WERE DEVELOPING AFGHANISTAN
Opposition General Homayun Baha declares that if the Soviet Union did not conquer Afghanistan because it was not interested, and claims that the Communists were developing the country well before the Mujaheddin began the process which culminated in the Taleban. More details...

16:30
200,000 JOBS LOST IN AVIATION INDUSTRY
The aftermath of September 11th has been dramatic for the aviation industry, with an estimated 200,000 losses. More details...

16:29
THE TREE OF FREEDOM HAS FADED FOREVER
Mark Twain once said: “The citizen who sees his society’s democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry out is not a patriot but a traitor.” America now seems to be ready to sacrifice its liberal values for the sake of the "victory" over terrorism. More details...

15:51
SIGNS OF DISCONTENT IN US POPULATION
Although the Unites States’ administration continues to enjoy massive support, there are clear signs that preoccupation and discontent are beginning to unsettle the people of the USA. More details...

15:42
ANDREY LUBENSKY: TU-154 CRASH INVESTIGATORY EXPERIMENT TO TAKE PLACE TODAY
The investigatory experiment will take place in the Crimea on Thursday. The experiment will be held within the framework of the criminal case pertaining to the crash of the Russian Tu-154 passenger airliner, which fell into the Black Sea after being hit by a Ukrainian missile More details...

15:30
THE CHANGING ROLE OF WOMEN IN AMERICA'S MILITARY
One of the concrete and positive results of the new war in which we are fighting is a long-overdue correction in the Pentagon's policies toward women in combat. The future role of women in today's military is going to be redefined, refined, and implemented with a dash of common sense. As one Pentagon official, speaking anonymously, put it: Fontline units won't involve women in Afghanistan or anywhere else. More details...

15:14
DOUBLE STANDARDS POLICY IN PAKISTAN
It seems that Pakistan is now deeply submerged in its inner contradictions. On the one hand, it has the support of the American aviation. On the other hand, the dissatisfaction of its citizens with this action is growing, and armed mutinies are becoming regular More details...

14:50
DMITRY LITVINOVICH: THE US WILL NOT WITHDRAW FROM ABM TREATY
The Washington Post reported to the whole world a sensational piece of news. During the coming summit between George Bush and Vladimir Putin, they probably will work out a form of agreement allowing to keep the 1972 ABM treaty, while permitting to the US to continue its trials in the framework of NMD. More details...

13:20
YURI RAZGULAEV: ETHNIC SEPARATISM STRENGTHENS RUSSIAN INFLUENCE IN AFGHANISTAN
Unexpected for most observers, on October 23, General Dustum’s security assistant, Said Kamil, visited Bishkek. The aim of the visit was a non-official meeting with former generals of the Afghan army who turned out still to live in Kirghizia. More details...

12:12
NEBOJSHA MALIC: PERVERTED JUSTICE HAGUE INQUISITION MOCKS THE RULE OF LAW
Slobodan Milosevic’s third appearance before the Hague Inquisition (ICTY), this past Monday, provided a much-needed distraction from the blundering war against the inhabitants of Afghan wastelands. What better way of re-forging one’s resolve to obliterate Afghanistan in the name of retribution, than to remember the triumphant air war against Serbia not so long ago – that embodiment of Empire’s boldly asserted power to attack anyone, anywhere, with impunity? More details...

11:20
ANDREI KRUSHINSKI: JAPAN EAGERLY STRIVES FOR WAR PATH
The Japanese senate has written a bill permitting its self-defence forces to support military actions of the US out of the limits of Japanese territory. In addition to expected US withdrawal from ABM treaty, the Japan’s decision signifies one more step on the way of undermining international law and order, securing power balance in the world before the USSR’s destruction. More details...

11:12
COLLATERAL DAMAGE VI
Wednesday October 31st – United States military aircraft have destroyed another hospital in Afghanistan. More details...

10:30
FREEDOM OF SPEECH THE GEORGIAN WAY
In Georgia, a cabinet crisis has broken out. Yesterday, Eduard Shevardnadze accepted the resignation of the state security minister, Vakhtang Kutateladze. The reason for the crisis was the Georgian State Security Ministry’s decision, taken the day before, about carrying out a search in Rustavi-2 TV company’s building. More details...

10:10
STEPHEN CARSON: THE WRONG RESPONSE
I was reading in the book of the prophet Isaiah. Israel is in trouble again as it so often is. There's a huge army backed by a much larger nation surrounding Jerusalem, they've already taken all the other fortified cities of Judah and now it's time for one final mop up and the Jews will be slaves in their own land. More details...

21:52
SERGEY NIKOLAYEV: ULYANOVSK REGION CLARIFIED ITS SENATOR
The four-month story with the elections of the Ulyanovsk region Legislative Assembly representative in the Federation Council is over More details...

21:09
DMITRY LITVINOVICH: WORLD CRISIS IS NOT A DISTURBER TO RUSSIA
OPEC representatives are still warning about a possibility of a crash on the world market of oil. OPEC experts say the uncontrollable reduction of prices may take place in the beginning of the next year in case, if the countries that produce oil fail to agree to cut its supply on the market More details...

20:37
SWORD OF DAMOCLES IN AUDIT CHAMBER’S HANDS
When reforms “from the top” fail, they are conducted “from the bottom.” The president has been waiting for half a year for the prime minister to supply him with a coherent concept of the governmental reform. The president’s expectations have proved futile. Mikhail Kasyanov, an experienced apparatchik, seems to have nearly succeeded in burying the idea under the red tape. More details...

19:41
ALEXANDER GOROBETS: UKRAINE NEEDLES RUSSIA TO PLEASE WASHINGTON
11 months have passed since the Ukrainian parliament declared the involvement of the top officials to the disappearance of an opposition-oriented journalist. This was actually a break in the official relations between Kiev and Washington More details...

19:05
YURI RAZGULYAYEV: KYRGHYZSTAN’S ILLEGAL ISLAMISTS OPERATE IN CONCERT WITH TALIBAN
The Kyrghyz underground religious political party Khizbut Takhrir is connected with the Taliban movement, according to the National Security Service of this former Soviet Central-Asian republic located in the scenic Ala Tau mountains. The sources report that the illegal organization numbers as little as some 4,000 members. More details...

18:28
PYOTR YERMILIN: THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT DECIDES TO SORT OUT FORMER USSR CITIZENS
Valentina Matvieynko, the vice-premier of the Russian Government, said that the executive power was going to attract intellectual resources from the neighboring countries. Matviyenko referred to the necessity of solving the Russian demographic problem More details...

17:34
IRA CHERNUS: MARTIN LUTHER KING, A DOMESTIC TERRORIST?
If Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., were alive today, he might well be leading acts of civil disobedience against the war in Afghanistan. And he would probably be charged with domestic terrorism, under the new anti-terrorism act. Anyone who has any links to his organization, or contributed money to it, could be charged too. More details...