09 February 2010 | Uncategorized | Margaret Griffis
Candidates hoping to run in March elections despite a ban found themselves left in the cold when an appeals committee rejected all but 37 of their cases. Meanwhile, at least one Iraqi was killed and six more were wounded in light violence.
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08 February 2010 | Uncategorized | Jay Hatheway
As the Obama administration gears up for additional commitments to Afghanistan
and elsewhere in the Middle East, it is good to remind ourselves that in spite
of the overheated rhetoric of the past few years, the region is of very little,
if any, strategic value to the United States. [...]
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08 February 2010 | Uncategorized | Kelley B. Vlahos
Kelley Vlahos on the James O’Keefe story
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08 February 2010 | Uncategorized | Mohammed Salih
If there were any doubts about what exactly U.S. President Barack Obama meant
when he warned Iran of "growing consequences" during his State of
the Union address last month, they seem to be dispelled by recent statements
from top administration officials, who are beating the sanctions drum loud [...]
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08 February 2010 | Uncategorized | Margaret Griffis
Although attacks were light today, the controversial election ban that could spur sectarian violence on continues to dominate the headlines. Overall, at least nine Iraqis were killed and six more were wounded.
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07 February 2010 | Uncategorized | Douglas Valentine
Respected journalist Jeremy Scahill wrote an article on Feb. 4 for The Nation
titled “The Expanding U.S. War in Pakistan.” In his article he presented as fact
several assertions about the CIA and U.S. military special operations forces.
In this article I will challenge those assertions.
Why?
Because many readers of The [...]
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07 February 2010 | Uncategorized | Tom Engelhardt
Almost every day, reports come back from the CIA’s "secret" battlefield
in the Pakistani tribal borderlands. Unmanned aerial vehicles – that is, pilotless
drones – shoot missiles (18
of them in a single attack on a tiny village last week) or drop bombs and
then the news [...]
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07 February 2010 | Uncategorized | Nebojsa Malic
The Bosnian "Threat" to Empire
Bosnia was in the headlines again this week. On Monday, police from both the
Serb Republic and the Muslim-Croat Federation raided a Wahhabi village in the
north of the country. And on Tuesday, U.S. Director of National Intelligence
Dennis Blair spoke of Bosnia as one [...]
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07 February 2010 | Uncategorized | Uri Avnery
Many important struggles in Israel are calling out to people of conscience.
Among others (in random order):
The struggle for preserving the environment and the future of the planet.
The struggle for democracy against fascist trends.
The struggle for human rights and civil rights.
The feminist struggle.
The struggle for the rights of gays and lesbians.
The struggle for [...]
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07 February 2010 | Uncategorized | Justin Raimondo
To recall the media hype that accompanied Ukraine’s "Orange Revolution"
of 2004, which propelled Viktor Yushchenko, a former central banker and alleged
liberal democrat, into power, is like remembering a fever-dream in the morning:
the memory of the details are blurred, and all that really remains is the sense [...]
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