Now They’re After Putin

The decisive victory of Russian President Vladimir Putin's "United Russia" slate of candidates for the Duma is the occasion for a new round of Putin-bashing, with "human rights officials" condemning the election results as "a retreat from Russia's democratic reforms."...

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Carla del Ponte’s Pound of Serbian Flesh

One by one, Serbs are confessing to their guilt regarding Srebrenica. Are we witnessing another Stalin show trial, where the defendants were told, "if you sign, we won't shoot you"?  Well, Stalin's victims signed and many were shot anyway, or...

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Former Top US Security Officials Back Geneva Accord

Three days after the administration of President George W. Bush shrugged off the unofficial Israeli-Palestinian peace plan released last week in Geneva, a bipartisan group of eight former top U.S. national-security officials said they supported the so-called...

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Uzbek Leader Becoming Embarrassment to West

President Bush's recent vows to pursue a "forward strategy of freedom" in the Islamic world are in the spotlight as a close ally, Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov, comes under attack by human rights groups. Despite Western pressure, Karimov has outlawed...

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Russian Regression?

The Russian parliamentary election, in which maximum leader Vladimir Putin's United Russia party (which seems to stand mainly for "we're in power and handing out favors, so keep us in power") got 37.1 percent of the vote – which could translate into a working...

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Iraq Is No Vietnam, But It May Be Poland

A nascent empire falls in love with its "liberating" political and economic state system and decides it is time to export its domestic model to other countries by means of war, of course. Liberation to all is the ultimate goal. No, it is not early 21st century, the...

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Praise I would just like to say, you all run one bad ass f*ckin news distribution center. I am a service member in the USAF and would like to say that this is where I go to see what the f*ck has gone wrong in this administration. ~ T. Henigma 'Go F*ck Yourself, Mr....

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Three of a Kind?

Re-election year is shaping up as positively for George W. Bush as it did for LBJ in 1964 and Richard Nixon in 1972. Recall: Both LBJ and Nixon had engineered surging economies for the election year. Both held the face cards in foreign policy in wartime, with...

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Shock Video: Who Shot New 9/11 Tapes?

I shivered, a little, as I watched Lisa Meyers' report on NBC the other night: "New and threatening messages have been received from Al Qaeda. There's a videotape aimed at American and Saudi Arabian rulers and another that includes what appears to be well-produced...

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A Sunday in Samarra

On one point, all sources appear to agree: what happened in the northern Sunni town of Samarra last Sunday could tell us a great deal about whether U.S. forces are likely to succeed or fail in pacifying and stabilizing Iraq. That there was a three-hour battle between...

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