Kerry Echoes GOP Senators on Iraq War

In his sharpest attack on U.S. policy on Iraq to date, Democratic candidate Sen. John Kerry Monday accused President George W. Bush of having made "a series of catastrophic decisions" that has created a "crisis of historic proportions" both in Iraq and in the wider...

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Japan to Re-Launch Security Council Bid

UNITED NATIONS - Having been cold-shouldered by the international community for more than a decade over its claims for a permanent seat on the 15-member UN Security Council, Japan is expected to launch an aggressive campaign to re-ignite its long-standing demand for...

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The New Cult of the Temple

The Security Service is haunted by a terrible fear: that another Israeli prime minister will be assassinated. The extreme right wing, which does not hide its admiration for Yigal Amir and his deed, harbors some who dream of a similar action. After all, if Amir...

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Indict the War Party

Iraq rapidly approaches meltdown, but President Pangloss isn't worried: "Our strategy," boasted George W. Bush to the National Guard last Tuesday, "is succeeding." I keep asking myself what world are he and his advisors living in, momentarily...

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Incident on Haifa Street

Quotes of the week: "When the Americans fire back, they don't hit the people who are attacking them, only the civilians," said Osama Ali, a 24-year-old Iraqi who witnessed the attack [in Baghdad]. "This is why Iraqis hate the Americans so much. This is why we love the...

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Memo to Feith and Wolfowitz: Don’t Blame the Fall Guy

I've been hearing from friends who know this fellow at Defense – the one who's being tried in the media for leaking secrets to AIPAC, an operation based in Washington that appears to be closely allied to a foreign government. According to published reports, Larry...

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Does North Korea Have What Iraq Didn’t?

In his 2002 State of the Union Address, President Bush threw down the gauntlet before Iraq, North Korea and Iran. "States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. "I will not wait on events, while...

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India’s ‘PATRIOT Act’ Repealed

NEW DELHI - After snaring thousands of politicians, teenagers, politicians, journalists, members of minority communities but few terrorists, India, this week, repealed its "PATRIOT Act" introduced in response to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United...

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