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CNN
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What happens when a country is in the news for all the wrong reasons? Pakistan has dominated headlines this week for violent demonstrations, declarations of a state of emergency, troops on the street and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto under house ar..
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MSNBC
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The colonel was furious. "Can you believe it? They actually drew their weapons on U.S. soldiers." He was describing a 2006 car accident, in which an SUV full of Blackwater operatives had crashed into a U.S. Army Humvee on a street in Baghdad's Green Zone...
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News.com.au
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IRANIAN President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wants a public debate with his US counterpart George W. Bush at the UN this month and a "global referendum" on who's right.
Mr Ahmadinejad said he would be visiting Iran's arch-enemy the US for the third time to ta..
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Alter Net
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How Bush & Co. have taken the U.S. from being the object of the world's sympathy to the object of their scorn.
President George W. Bush is fond of reminding us that no terrorist attacks have occurred on domestic soil since 9/11. But has the Administrat..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Two decades ago, General David Petraeus, the man charged with winning America's second war in Iraq, wrote a thesis for his PhD in international relations at Princeton.
Its 328 pages were an intense study of the legacies of a war that had stretched the..
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Al Jazeera
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Iran is the new Nazi Germany and its President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is the new Hitler. Or so Israeli officials have been declaring for months as they and their American allies try to persuade the doubters in Washington that an attack on Tehran is essenti..
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Guardian Unlimited
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An Iraqi who was a key source of intelligence for MI5 has given the first ever full insider's account of being seized by the CIA and bundled on to an illegal 'torture flight' under the programme known as extraordinary rendition.
In a remarkable intervi..
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Alter Net
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Getting Republicans to jump ship is central to the anti-war movement's strategy to get out of Iraq. But activists need to be wary of their intentions and not let them co-opt the message that it's time for withdrawal.
The sudden "surge" of anti-war posi..
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Los Angeles Times
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YASSER ARAFAT was the first to arrive. He came by presidential helicopter, his black and white kaffiyeh flapping in the cool evening breeze. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and President Clinton arrived the next day. And then there were three, a trio of..
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Alter Net
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Interviews with 50 Iraq war veterans reveal disturbing patterns of behavior by US troops in Iraq against innocent civilians -- brutal acts that often go unreported and almost always go unpunished.
Over the past several months The Nation has interviewed..
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Washington Post
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Don't think it's over, folks. Even though Republican senators are coming to their senses about George of Arabia's tragic war in Iraq, and even though Democrats seem to have remembered why voters put them in charge of Congress, no one should be lulled into..
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Guardian Unlimited
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The arrest of two militants from the radical group holding BBC correspondent Alan Johnston hostage has put the journalist's life in great danger, according to sources in Gaza and within the group itself. Johnston, who was kidnapped on 12 March, today endu..
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Alter Net
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Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert sound more smug than usual after Fatah's overthrow in Gaza. It appears that a drastic and deadly new strategy to isolate Palestinians and use other Arab countries as enforcers has been unveiled.
Nazareth -- T..
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Guardian Unlimited
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The case of the only man found guilty of the Lockerbie bombing, Britain's biggest terrorist outrage that killed 270 people, could be reopened after fresh evidence that his conviction was based on unreliable evidence.
If the appeal is successful, Abdelb..
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BBC News
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For former US seaman Gary Brummett, the 40th anniversary of the 1967 Middle East war has stirred painful memories.
As a 21-year-old third class petty officer, Mr Brummett was serving on board the USS Liberty off the coast of Egypt on 8 June, when, with..
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Guardian Unlimited
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The US plans permanent military bases in Iraq, confirming to many that it really was all about oil
Almost unnoticed, the war in Iraq entered a new phase last week. Laconic statements from the White House and the Pentagon confirmed what had long been..
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Guardian Unlimited
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At the end of Europe yesterday afternoon, a man in a straw hat warmed up to go jogging, a father and teenage son in matching jeans and denim jackets shared a packet of cheap cigarettes, a small girl made sandcastles and two border guards strolled under th..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Senior officials in the PLO and Hamas were yesterday attempting to broker an end to the bloody siege of a Lebanese refugee camp, which began last week when the Lebanese army engaged members of Fatah al-Islam, an al-Qaeda-inspired group, after a bank robbe..
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Alter Net
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The hard right in the U.S. has tried to exploit the arrest of Middle East scholar Haleh Esfandiari to create a reason for America's conservatives to attack Iran.
The case of Haleh Esfandiari's imprisonment in Iran is sparking the kind of commotion that..
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Alter Net
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At a time when many nations are moving toward banning the use of cluster munitions, which pose a more serious threat to civilians than any other type of weaponry, the U.S. opposes new limits of any kind.
A shorter version of this piece appears in this..
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