Violence left at least two Iraqis dead and 26 more wounded. In Baghdad, Iraqi lawmakers have not yet decided whether they will ask for U.S. troops to remain past a withdrawal deadline. Meanwhile, the League of the Righteous reiterated their demands in regards to a British bodyguard they’ve held hostage for four years. They want the United States to release their colleagues from detention.
Ray McGovern from aboard the Audacity of Hope
It looked like a scene from an opera. Massed in the doorway and second floor balconies of a quaint building in Athens, facing a magnificent view of the Parthenon, Spanish activists hung banners and flashed peace signs and proclaimed that they wouldn’t leave the building, the Embassy of Spain, until their government assured them that …
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At least six Iraqis were killed and 11 more were wounded in today’s violence. Meanwhile, hundreds demonstrated in Baghdad. Two soldiers were killed and three more were wounded during a blast in Abu Ghraib. Two Sahwa members were killed in a drive-by shooting in Jurf al-Sakhar. In Abu Saida, a woman’s body bearing gunshot wounds …
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Two days before celebrating the independence of South Sudan in Juba, senior U.S. officials warned Thursday that unresolved issues between the new country and Khartoum, as well as ongoing conflicts along or near their common border, threaten the stability of both states. In particular, the failure by Khartoum and Juba to resolve the status of …
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A few days after Barack Obama’s December 2009 announcement of 33,000 more troops being sent to Afghanistan, in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Defense Secretary Robert Gates advanced the official justification for escalation: the Afghan Taliban would not abandon its ties with al-Qaeda unless forced to do so by US military force and …
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Chase Madar on why he should be praised, not in prison
Justin Raimondo on the left-right coalition against war
At least four Iraqis were killed and 11 more were wounded in the latest attacks. Two U.S. soldiers were killed in an E.F.P attack outside Victory Base Camp as well.
Recent anthropological studies of the Turkana people, “a nomadic society in east Africa that lacks a centralized government,” find that they can “regularly muster armies of several hundred warriors, most of whom have never met before” by relying on fear of punishment or marginalization as the price of dissent and by exploiting kinship loyalties expected to “benefit the ethnolinguistic group.” A …
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