A small non-violent protest against the development – some would say over-development – of Istanbul’s Taksim Square has turned into the Turkish equivalent of the Tahrir Square protests in Cairo, Egypt, that brought down Hosni Mubarak, that country’s pro-US dictator. What do the Taksim Square protesters want? Or, rather more to the point in this …
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At least four Iraqis were killed and nine more were wounded.
WASHINGTON—If you weren’t paying attention last week, you might have missed the news that Chinese hackers have accessed blueprints of our most advanced military weapons and communications systems, including Patriot missile technology, the V22 Osprey, the Aegis Ballistic Defense System, and the Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship. This epic fail of our so-called “cyber security” efforts …
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Although we had to swelter in the Maryland sun on Saturday, I found the pre-trial rally at Ft. Meade to support Bradley Manning particularly spirit-filled. It seemed there was an unspoken but widely shared consciousness that Manning is as much Biblical prophet as Army private. I think Manning can be seen as a classic prophet …
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A car bomb at a Balad restaurant left three dead and four wounded. Security forces killed two gunmen in Shirqat. In Baghdad, gunmen tried to assassinate a lawmaker, but killed a companion instead. A lawyer was wounded in a shooting in Saidiya. Two soldiers were wounded in an I.E.D. attack in Abu Ghraib. A bomb …
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May was Iraq’s deadliest month in nearly five years, with more than 1,000 dead — both civilians and security personnel — in a rash of bombings, shootings, and other violence. As we read each day of new horrors in Iraq, it becomes more obvious that the U.S. invasion delivered none of the promised peace or …
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Several commentators have pointed to the similarities between the pre-World War I era and our own. While every historical analogy is, by definition, inexact, they are right to raise the alarm. In 1914, Europe was divided into two camps: the Entente, consisting of Britain, France, and Russia, and the Central Powers, predominantly Germany and the …
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At least 10 people were killed and eight more were wounded in today’s violence. Three of the dead were Syrians. Also, at least five people were kidnapped, but two other abduction victims were liberated.
At least six Iraqis were killed and eight more were wounded in relatively light violence following an active May.
