BAGHDAD – The new outbreak of violence in Baghdad has shattered ceasefire talks between Shia militants and the Iraqi government. Following a successful if fragile ceasefire in the holy city Najaf, it was hoped that talks in the impoverished Sadr City of Baghdad would become a model for further negotiations between the government and followers …
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In 1987, Jonathan Pollard, U.S. Navy intelligence analyst, was imprisoned for life for selling a roomful of U.S. secret documents to Israel. Tel Aviv refused to return them. At the Clinton-Netanyahu summit at Wye River, Pollard became a subject of contention. ”Bibi” Netanyahu wanted to fly the American traitor back to Israel where he is …
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Eugene Koontz’s backtalkEugene Koontz misses the point. Most people don’t pay close attention to the details of state policy because we’re biologically designed for a way of life in which all the major decisions affecting our lives are made in small primate social groupings. After the demands of work, family, friends, neighbors and the immediate …
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BRUSSELS – Turkey’s case for joining the EU improved with the publication of a report Monday setting out the advantages this would bring to the bloc. The report was published as European Union enlargement commissioner Guenther Verheugen noted in Ankara that the human rights situation within Turkey has improved. Concerns over human rights have long …
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MADRID – Representatives of more than 5,000 survivors of the Chilean dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet and the families of victims brought a lawsuit Monday against the former dictator’s executor, Oscar Aitken, in the Spanish capital. The legal action was filed in the court of Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzón, and urges him to investigate the …
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BAGHDAD – How does a journalist report from a country like Iraq, where the dynamics of the situation and the danger level change so rapidly? That question is put often to journalists. There is no simple answer, but the following words come to mind: flexibility, caution, experience, judgment, and calm. Few journalists rely on a …
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Washington politicians are once again seriously considering imposing a national identification card – and it may well become law before the end of the 108th Congress. The much-hailed 9/11 Commission report [pdf] released in July recommends a federal identification card and, worse, a "larger network of screening points" inside the United States. Does this mean …
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NEW DELHI – It is an irony of history that Mahatma Gandhi, who led India to independence from British colonial rule in 1947, is now in a popularity contest with Veer Savarkar, arrested for the assassination of the "Apostle of Peace" but acquitted for lack of corroborative evidence. Gandhi was shot dead at a prayer …
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http://www.independent.org/tii/antiwar/e040907.html
Editor’s note: Justin Raimondo is sunning himself on the beach today, but we’ve gotten permission from the kind editors of The American Conservative to reprint this article from the August 2 issue. But, hey, if you haven’t subscribed, you ought to: TAC is the best, most exciting antiwar magazine around – and they’re coming from …
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