Iran: And the Beat Goes On

In a last-ditch, all-out effort to pave the way for war with Iran, Israel's lobby in the U.S. has inaugurated a new front group: United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI). What, "another" neocon front group – why is this important? With Richard Holbrooke, Obama's most...

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‘Militants Are Not Taliban, We Are’

PESHAWAR - The world knows the Taliban as armed fighters who have unleashed a wave of violence in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan including devastating suicide bomb attacks, the most recent on the luxurious Marriot Hotel in high-security Islamabad last week. But...

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In Baghdad, Even the Hospitals Are Sick

with Arkan Hamed BAGHDAD - Not even the elevators work now at Baghdad Medical City, built once as the center for some of the best medical care. One of the ten elevators still does, and the priority for this is patients who have lost their legs – and there are...

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Biden’s Foreign Policy ‘Experience’

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's choice of Joseph Biden as his running mate has drawn sharp criticism from many Democrats as a result of the Delaware senator's support for the US invasion of Iraq, his flagrantly false claims about the alleged Iraqi...

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Ahmadinejad Open to US Talks, Denounces Threats

At a press conference following his speech to the UN General Assembly Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he would welcome discussions with the US presidential candidates, but added that "the condition is that our meeting should be open so that...

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Neocons, Ex-Israeli Diplomats Push Islamophobic Video

with Eli Clifton and Jim Lobe A group of hard-line US neoconservatives and former Israeli diplomats, among others, are behind the mass distribution, ahead of the November US presidential election, of a controversial DVD that critics have denounced as Islamophobic. The...

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