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As part of the new phase of maybe-kinda-probably war against ISIS, Obama is seeking to arm the Syrian rebels, hoping they’ll fight against the ravenous terrorists who cut through the Iraqi army like a hot Jihadist knife through butter. There’s just one tiny problem with this strategy – those rebels have signed a non-aggression pact with ISIS: The U.S. backed, Syrian Revolutionary Front (SRF), have signed a ceasefire agreement with members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) in the Rif Dimashq Governate. According to the ceasefire agreement, the two militant groups will not engage in violence with...

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Korea Experts: U.S. Spurned '02 Kim Effort1 hour, 35 minutes ago WASHINGTON - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, in a previously undisclosed message to President Bush in November 2002, said the United States and North Korea "should be able to resolve the nuclear issue in compliance with the demands of the new century," according to two private U.S. Korea experts who delivered Kim's message to the White House. "If the United States makes a bold decision, we will respond accordingly," Kim said in a written personal message to Bush that he sent through Donald Gregg, a former U.S. ambassador...

North Korea says it wants a non-aggression pact with the United States in exchange for concessions on its own nuclear programme. The Stalinist government in Pyongyang claims this will open the way to arms limitation negotiations. South Korean newspaper the Korea Times reports that North Korea, the United States and China will probably meet in Beijing on September 6th for talks on the crisis. However, the South Korean government says it knows nothing about any such agreement. South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun has denied reports in the US press about a second nuclear reactor in North Korea. At the weekend,...

<p>SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea said Monday the "nuclear issue" could be settled if Washington signs a nonaggression treaty with it.</p> <p>North Korea's appeal for a deal, a day after it began removing U.N. seals and tampering with surveillance equipment at frozen nuclear facilities, suggests it wants to push the United States into talks by ramping up fears of a nuclear crisis.</p>

SEOUL: North Korea reiterated on Saturday that the United States must sign a non-aggression treaty with the communist state if it wants to salvage a 1994 nuclear arms control agreement. The 1994 Agreed Framework pact which requires the North to freeze its nuclear weapons program had suffered "total collapse," said the North's state-run news agency, KCNA. "If the Agreed Framework is to be alive and the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula to find a fundamental solution, the US should drop its hostile policy toward the DPRK and conclude a nonaggression treaty with the DPRK," it said. The DPRK, short...

I've been a libertarian -- an advocate of and activist for inherent individual human (and other sapient) rights -- for the last three decades. If anything distinguishes the libertarian intellectual tradition from other politico-ethical traditions, it's the idea that rights originate with the individual and not with any collective, and that any group -- religious, ethnic, or political -- only has those rights which are held by the individuals who comprise it. This a priori premise dictates the answer to most of the conflicts of rights that arise in other traditions. Libertarians abhor the use of force to benefit one...