Neglect Follows Siege of Fallujah

BAGHDAD - The Iraqi ministry of health is failing to provide enough support to hundreds of thousands who fled Fallujah. Doctors in Baghdad are perplexed why there has been little or no assistance from the health ministry to residents or refugees. "During the...

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Which War Is This Anyway?

"Every country and every people has a stake in the … resistance, for the freedom fighters … are defending principles of independence that form the basis of global security and stability." "The war … was in itself criminal, a criminal adventure. This...

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‘We Are Living a Disaster’

The cold winter winds sweep over Baghdad and the refugee camps strewn about the city. Date palms sway as dust blows down the clogged streets where people huddle in their cars while waiting in petrol lines several miles long. The cost of fuel now in the black market is...

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US Pushes War-Crimes Immunity in Foreign-Aid Bill

The Bush administration is facing an early test of its interest in easing tensions with traditional U.S. allies in the 2005 foreign-aid bill, which bans some $2.5 billion in economic assistance for friendly governments that have not ratified a bilateral immunity...

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Bullies at the Airport

If you traveled by air last week for the Thanksgiving holiday, you undoubtedly witnessed Transportation Security Administration agents conducting aggressive searches of some passengers. A new TSA policy begun in September calls for invasive and humiliating searches of...

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Nuclear Deception Enters Its 60th Year

Top officials in Washington are now promoting jitters about Iran's nuclear activities, while media outlets amplify the message. A confrontation with Tehran is on the second-term Bush agenda. So, we're encouraged to obliquely think about the unthinkable. But no one can...

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Get Real: The Case for Restraint With Iran

There are few areas of the world with a more troubling mix of geopolitical problems than the Middle East. The irony is that the war in Iraq, which has consumed so much of our country's political and economic capital, may hold less far-reaching consequences than...

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