Negotiations Now!

It's summer vacation time! Yeah, one whole weekend of it. Oh well, it's better than nothing. I was going to write about how the Green Party's vice presidential candidate isn't even sure she's going to vote for herself, but, suddenly, a wave of ennui swept over me, and...

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The Curse of Oil

The Bush Administration has made much of Iraq's oil reserves. It wants to use the proceeds from the sale of petroleum to pay off the country's debts, cover the costs of reconstruction and government expenses. It has been hectoring European governments and the Russian...

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Supreme Court: Foreign Victims of Abuse May Sue in US

In a new rebuff to the administration of Pres. George W. Bush, a 6-3 majority of the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a 215-year-old anti-piracy law can continue to be used by foreign victims of serious human rights abuses access to U.S. courts for redress....

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Don’t Call it a Wall

A year ago, I urged readers to forget about President Bush's "Road Map to Peace" – on which so much attention was wasted at the time, by now a dead letter – and concentrate on the real map of Palestine, radically changed by the construction of Israel's...

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The Revolving Door Spins Away

Hundreds of U.S. military and government officials routinely leave their posts for jobs with private contractors who deal with the government, a process that has eroded the lines between government and the private sector, according to a report released by a watchdog...

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US Increases Colombian Involvement

BOGOTA - Shrouded in silence in Colombia, the Plan Patriot has begun to emerge as the most ambitious military offensive to date against the leftist guerrillas, in which the U.S. military is providing tactical and logistical support. Taking part in the operation, which...

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Web Weaves Reunion for Kashmiris

SRINAGAR – Technology bridged a decades old divide this week when separated families across the Indian and Pakistani sides of Kashmir interacted through a web cast, amid tears, laughter and hopes of peaceful tomorrows. The three-day event organized by the BBC in...

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Handover, Yes, But to What?

BAGHDAD - Iraq's new minister of the interior Falah al-Nakib and his staff were so taken by surprise by the unexpected handover of sovereignty by the U.S.-led occupation Monday that they failed to make it to the brief ceremony. They stayed in their office, an air-raid...

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Regime Change in Iraq a Sham, Say Mideast Experts

UNITED NATIONS - Despite the positive responses Monday from UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and members of the Security Council who praised the U.S. "transfer of sovereignty" to an interim government in Iraq, Middle East experts and political analysts dismiss the...

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