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Israelis Desperate Hoping They Can Salvage Themselves with Syrian Deal
Libby Backers Working Hard To Avoid Jail Time
Republican Donations Sinking - RNC Fires Also Telephone Solicitors
How Bush Risks Creating A Real Islamic Bomb
The Great Big Lebanon Double-Standard
Turks Ready to Invade Iraqi Kurdistan
Captive BBC Reporter Surfaces and Blasts US and UK Middle East Policies
people, and my message is that the suffering is continuing and it is unacceptable," he said, blaming Israel. He denounced Britain and the U.S. for ca ...
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The Very Strange TB Case and Crossing the Border
The Very Strange TB Case and Crossing the Border
US Issues IRAN Travel Warning
The timing and maybe the excuse for this has to do with a few Iranian-Americans arrested. However this cuold also be a prelude to attack...
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Baghdad Embassy Plans Turn Up Online
Real Player Breakthrough - Download OnLine Videos
Putin Charges Americans with 'Imperialism'
In recent months the Russian President has made illusions to the Americans acting like the Nazis did years ago. And now comes the additional codeword ...
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500 Marines Rushing to Albany to Protest Bush
Albania's formal elite escort for visiting dignitaries, the Republican Guard, will not be allowed to carry guns on the day.
Publisher and CIA Plame Sue Agency Over Memoirs
Falls on how to get out right from IRAQ - 2005
Fallows on What Will Happen in IRAQ - Writing in 2002
Going to war with Iraq would mean shouldering all the responsibilities of an occupying power the moment victory was achieved. These would include runn ...
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Blind Into Baghdad - Fallows in Jan 2004
The U.S. occupation of Iraq is a debacle not because the government did no planning but because a vast amount of expert planning w ...
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Fighting a New Kind of War in Iraq
'Multicultural' Gaza of Yesteryear
Fallows on IRAQ and What To Do - Nov 06
So the choice is between a terrible decision and one that is even worse. The terrible decision is just to begin leaving, knowing that even more innoc ...
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Bush and Denial
Who decides whether America will attack Iran?
"Permanent" Bases May Not Really Be Permanent Says White House!
Snow said U.S. bases in Iraq would not necessarily be permanent because they would be there at the invitation of the host government and "the person w ...
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Google takes big step to make Web work offline
iPod sex toy arouses Apple's ire
Anti-war movement shrugs off setbacks
Bush envisions U.S. presence in Iraq like S.Korea
Iraq's neighbors have raised concerns about the possibility of the United States maintaining permanent bases in Iraq, and some ...
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Lieberman Asked By Troops When They Can Get Out of Iraq
Journalist Challenges the American Media on Press Freedom Day and Gets Shot Down
On Press Freedom Day I spoke briefly to New York Times correspondent Warren Hoge about the media, Iraq and World Press Freedom Day. Q: Its World Pre ...
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Comments about - WORLD WAR IV Says "Guardian of Zionism" Award Winner Podhoretz
Comments & Responses Post a video response Post a text comment Most Recent ... 1 2 ... Oldest Goodfellow62 (2 hours ago) marked as spam Anot ...
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Dual Loyalty and the “Israel Lobby” - Commentary Nov 2006
The cauldron may bubble over again
Tom Segev's Book About the 1967 WAR
According to Mr Segev, a whiff of mutiny, almost a coup, was in the air. If Israel did not strike, the generals told their wavering masters, the Jewi ...
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40 Years On... The Economist
The aftermath of the war of 1967 has been a story of squandered opportunities and deepening divisions among Israelis and Palestinians alike
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The Economist on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 40 Years after 1967
Gertrude Bell - The Woman Who Made IRAQ
BOMB IRAN - Podhoretz Tells Israelis on TV
ALL ABOUT CONDI - The Atlantic - June 2007
Wolfowitz Managed the Bank Poor...Not Just IRAQ!
From Microsoft - THE SURFACE Computer Table
Jewish Lobby...and Podhoretz...want to BOMB IRAN
SURFACE is Coming! From Microsoft
Another Masked Israel Lobby Pushes for Palestinian 'Diplomacy' and Blocking IRAN
KEY PHRASE: forging bonds to fortify a common front against Iran. The Israel Lobby comes in different forms and flavors these days. With Israeli op ...
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Bloody Jews?
Bush, Sharon, my daughter, and me. - Podhoretz in COMMENTARY
Bush, Sharon, my daughter, and me.(Letter to the Editor) Publication: Commentary Publication Date: 01-APR-05 Format: Online - approximately 10464 wor ...
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It's World War IV Says Podhoretz - BOMB IRAN
If the ayatollahs acquire nuclear weapons, it will be too late—and too costly—to act.
Getting Serious About Iran: A Military Option - COMMENTARY Nov 2006
How to Win in Iraq—and How to Lose - Commentary Magazine
Venezuela to sue CNN
Venezuela says it will file charges against US cable network CNN for linking President Hugo Chavez to Al Qaeda. It says it will also sue a Venezuelan ...
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Leading Jewish Zionist Neocon Tells Israelis U.S. Will bomb IRAN
Israelis Prepare to Invade Gaza Again
Call Assad's Bluff Say Right-wing Israelis
Bus line looks to shed its reputation for risk
Psyching Out Bill Clinton as 'White Trash'
Betsey Wright, Bill Clinton's Chief of Staff while he was Governor of Arkansas, and the woman tasked with managing 'bimbo eruptions' during his 1992 c ...
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Cheney Destroys Records of Who Visited Him
American Taliban Taunts Bush and Americans
Republican Congressman Fingers Neocons and Wolfowitz as Responsible for IRAQ
Computers - PCWorld 100 Best
"Goodbye Ameircan...You're not The Country That I Loved"
"Good-bye America ... you are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can't make you be that country unle ...
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Well-organized Force Brazenly Kidnap 5 Brits from Finance Ministry in Bagdad
This is all happening against a major backdrop. Within hours of Muktada al-Sadr's speech denouncing the occupation last Friday British forces tracke ...
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Mexicans Boo Miss USA
The newspaper said that when the show went to a commercial break, an NBC representative warned the audience of 9,000 to behave because "this gives the ...
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The Fort Dix Tipster Who Didn't Want The Glory
Pakistan Is Going Down the Road of the Shah’s Iran
Tribute to Seymour Melman
Video - Miniature TV for glasses
Video - Reuters Technology Week
Political Protest Dress of Miss Mexico ruled out of bounds in Mexico City
In another hitch, Miss Mexico was made to change her outfit for the regional dress contest after her original dress, decorated with brutal images of r ...
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TB Quarantine - Fist since 1960s
1948 Letter from Einstein and Other American Jews about Visit of Begin to America
Cindy Sheehan Withdraws as "Face" of Peace Movement
Cindy Sheehan Withdraws as "Face" of Peace Movement
Iran charges 3 Iranian-Americans with spying
Majority of Iraqi Lawmakers Now Reject Occupation
On Tuesday, without note in the U.S. media, more than half of the members of Iraq's parliament rejected the continuing occupation of their country. 14 ...
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Israeli general: 'We've lost our fighting instinct'
Accounting Rules 'hiding' trillions in debt - USA TODAY
Liability $516,348 per U.S. household
Former US Embassy Bomber now a Member of Iraqi Parliament
Iraqi Law Makers Tell U.S. to Set Date And Get Out
Iraqi Parliamentarians Urge Pull-Out Date
Architects Urge Boycott of Israel
OPPOSITION SETS SIGHTS ON AL-MALIKI
Secret Service Stretched to the Limit
Neocons Gathering in Bermuda to Plot Next Steps to Change IRAN
Critique of THE ISRAEL LOBBY - Stephen Zunes - IL
This also requires suppressing challenges to this policy within the United States and there is no question that the Israel lobby plays an important r ...
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The Zionist Plan for the Middle East
Wolfowitz Sneak Appoints New Country Director for IRAQ
US and UK Attack Sadr Forces Killing Basr Commander
Saddam - 1937 - 2006
IRAN Talks - Advantage to Tehran Say Analysts
Last Minutes of Sadaam
Chinese allowing two Films about Rape of Nanking
Chinese allowing two Films about Rape of Nanking
MN Guardsman a long time gone in IRAQ
As Minnesota Guardsmen's Tour Is Extended, Small Home Towns Acutely Feel Their Absence
Desperate Musharraf Hits Harder with U.S. Backing
In some ways it's a repeat of 30 years ago when the U.S. desperately hung on and tried to prop up an increasingly isolated and sinking Shah in Iran. < ...
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Top Pentagon Man Doesn't Even Know Number Killed
Cindy Sheehan QAuits Dem Party
Secret SURGE II Now Underway
Untapped: Scrambling for AFRICA's Oil
Security think-tank: Iran may be preparing to strike Europe
Neo-Con Front Group Meets in Bermuda and Plans IRAN War
Foundation for the Defense of Democracies ANeo-Con front promoting "Iran Confrontation" Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 The Foundation for the Defense of D ...
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Lebanon: Not Al-Queda, Rather Palestinian
Al-Qaddour denied that Fath Al-Islam was affiliated with Al-Qaeda, and added: "Our organization is an Islamic project aimed at liberating Palestine an ...
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Hersh: Bush administration arranged support for militants attacking Lebanon
China, the Olympic Games, and global leadership
Father Greg
Egypt bashes U.S. for hypocrisy
PROFNET ROUNDUP: 2007 Commencement Speakers
Honorary Degree for Father Greg Boyle
Operation Freedom From Iraqis
VIDEO - Rosie in her PEACE Shirt
American Troops Want Out of IRAQ
The Cabal Strikes Back
The neocons are discredited – but not defeated
'Wiped off the Map' – The Rumor of the Century
Bush sanctions 'black ops' against Iran
Why Congress Caved to Bush
How Can Bush Free Iraq When He Brings Tyranny to America?
Sy Hersh on NOW in Feb 03
Seymour Hersh: "We've Been Taken Over by a Cult"
Sy Hersh spoke in January 2007 at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York. SEYMOUR HERSH: About what's going on in terms of the President is tha ...
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AIPAC Trial Really Might Take Place
Insight Into the CLINTONs and their wheeling/dealing
US Deaths In IRAQ going Up
America's "Broken" Army?
Americans And U.S. Arab Regimes Rush Latest Military Supplies to Christian Lebanese Govt
Former White House Chief Hissed and Booed for Minutes by Students and Faculty at UMass
One faculty member onstage held a sign: "Card _ no honor, no degree." Another sign said, "War criminals go home." ..."For the university to so cynical ...
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2008 is an election year... so guess what about troops in Iraq...
Immediate gunning for Al-Sadr and His Forces
Immediately after he reemerged and give a loud anti-occupation anti-American Friday sermon U.S. and British forces have gone gunning for his commander ...
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What the 'Sanctions' Did To IRAQ
The Politics of Fear - New Statesman
Afghanistan - Unsustainable
When Afghan children are forced to eat mud, it is clear we have squandered billions of dollars of aid
Bob Marley - New Statesman
Hailed as the best album of the 20th century, Bob Marley's Exodus is 30 years old next month. Vivien Goldman recalls the sessions that produced a mode ...
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CHINA - Special Report in The Guardian
Brits Kill top Mahdi Army Commander Just Hours After Moktada Al-Sadr Reemerges
Not likely this is an accident of timing. Much more likely this was designed by the Brits and the Americans as a major provocation designed to put mo ...
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What the Finkelstein Tenure Fight Tells Us About the State of Academia
And Now It's a Democratic War
The Bush Administration's Dual Loyalties - Dec 2002
WHAT THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMUNITY MUST DO
Masquerading as advocates of the 'two-state solution' this is a group whose origins are actually AIPAC and the centrist Zionists. The two states they ...
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Imprisoning a whole nation - John Pilger
Gaza: The jailed state
Pentagon details China's new military strategies
Fred Thompson Prepares
Iraqis Chant NO to US, Israel, Occupation!
"No, no for Satan. No, no for America. No, no for the occupation. No, no for Israel," the glowering, black-turbaned cleric chanted in a call and respo ...
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Rosie Speaks Up and Ships Out
Rosie 'implied' it's the Americans themselves who are the 'terrorists': Wednesday's debate was the culmination of a fight that started on "The View" ...
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John Pilger on ISRAEL
Anti-US, Anti-Israel, Anti-Christian Forces Threaten Further in Lebanon and Beyond
"No crusader will be safe in Lebanon after today. As you hit you will be hit," said a speaker identified as the military leader of the group in a Web ...
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Iranian leader warns Israel it may be ‘uprooted’
Turks Fear Popular Democracy - Veto Popular Election of Pres
Tenet claims CIA was a scapegoat for war
CIA Did Warn of Consequences of Invading Iraq
U.S. joins Arab allies in aiding Lebanese army
Obama Lines Up Behind Neo-Conservative Campaign Against Iran
A CYBER TERRORISM 9/11 In Our Future?
The disruption continues: thousands of popular websites, from eBay to YouTube, start malfunctioning or are replaced by malicious parodies. Tens of m ...
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Cheney and Neocons Trying to Manuever Bush to War with IRAN
Cheney Attempting to Constrain Bush's Choices on Iran Conflict: Staff Engaged in Insubordination Against President Bush
US students set up 'checkpoint' on campus
Students at San Jose University disguise as soldiers, Palestinians at improvised checkpoint to condemn Israeli army's occupation of West Bank
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Neo-Cons To Plot Iran Strategy Amid Caribbean Luxury
Jews acting like beastly persons, Ahmadinejad says
Middle East Section in FT
Anti-US cleric renews Iraq withdrawal call
Israelis Strike Close to Palestinian Prime Minister
Netanyahu Promotes Jordanian Control of Palestinians
But both Palestinians and Jordanians reject the idea of a confederation, dismissing it as an Israeli ploy to prevent the creation of an independent P ...
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LIVELEAK - IRAN
America is blowing the whistle for war with Iran
Torture, Al-Qaeda Style
You never know now what to believe from the U.S. The Pentagon and the CIA each now have huge budgets for everything from war fighting to paying journ ...
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US fears over China long-range missiles
Video - Bush Pooped On in Rose Garden
U.S. candidate Paul assigns reading to Giuliani
'Flashpoint' tells the story of wounded CBS reporter Dozier
Israel seizes Hamas leaders, violence goes on
Five hidden, affordable beach destinations
Rep. Ron Paul has a terrorism 'reading list' for Giuliani
U.S. Working To Sabotage Iran Nuke Program
IAEA Proposes 'Third Way' for IRAN
Obstacles to peace: BBC Series of Articles
The BBC News website is publishing a series of articles about the attempts to achieve peace in the Middle East and the main obstacles. Today, Martin A ...
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History of Failed Israeli-Palestinian Peace Plans - BBC
Tehran alarm over US tough talk - Feb 07
What will alarm Tehran about the latest details of US military planning for a strike on Iran is the fact that there are now two possible triggers for ...
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Iranians cycle for world peace
UN debut for $100 laptop for poor
'$100 laptop' sparks war of words
IRAN Warns Israel Not to Attack Palestinians and Lebanon
Wash Post Coverage of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Morgue Data Show Increase In Sectarian Killings in Iraq
Soldiers, Families Paying Price of Iraq War - Part II - PBS News hour
COST OF IRAQ WAR - The Experts Add It Up - PBS News hour
Is Ahmedinejad’s Star Fading?
Mubarak - Egypt's Next President?
Real Cost of War - Audio News Hour
Flights to China to double in next few years
U.S. may negotiate with Iraqi insurgents
John Edwards in 2001
Chinese Bullet Trains
PAKISTAN - Time to Cut a Deal - Economist
Blocked by U.S., China finds it own way to space
Rosie and Elisabeth go after each other on THE VIEW
King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz - Saudi peace plan revived
Interview with Key Iranian about U.S.-Iran Relations
More American Reps Arrested in IRAN
The Iranians are sending all kinds of messages the way of the U.S., just as the U.S. is doing in reverse. One message to academics and business-peopl ...
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Interview with Rory Stewart
Still More Troops, More 'Security Forces' for IRAQ
Nir Rosen On Iraq's Refugees
The Flight From Iraq
VIDEO - Nir Rosen on Iraq's Refugees and Our Responsibilty
HILLARY TO MILITARY: GET READY TO RETREAT
Google Wants More and More Personal Info so...
LIFECHANGING - USA Today Declares the iPod
Stop world cluster bombs, urge six Nobel Prize winners
Steve Jobs - Gore Can Run and WIN!
The Oversight Congress: Trouble for Bush
Amnesty accuses Israel of 'serious rights abuses'
'War on terror' dividing world, Amnesty warns
"The politics of fear is fueling a downward spiral of human rights abuse in which no right is sacrosanct and no person safe," said Amnesty Internation ...
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U.S. Amb in Israel Forced to Retract and Appologize for Remarks about Pollard Spy
9 US Killed in one day
U.S.: Iranian Material Found in Iraq
U.S. to test missile defense system at a decisive moment
Navy Stages Big Show of Force Off Iran Coast
New al Qaeda Tapes Feature U.S. Capitol Under 'Attack'
Why Bush hasn't been impeached
Congress, the media and most of the American people have yet to turn decisively against Bush because to do so would be to turn against some part of th ...
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Why Bush Hasn't Been Impeached
Secret CIA Plan To Regime Change in IRAN
Billions Missing in IRAQ
Members of Congress demanded on Tuesday that the Bush administration explain how billions of dollars of US taxpayers’ money had gone missing in Iraq ...
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Bush may turn to UN in search for Iraq solution
If troop surge fails, strategy is to involve other nations under UN umbrella
More nuke treaty abrogation from the Bush/Cheney crowd
Feds seek answers after former chief at Palisades plant told magazine he was a hired assassin.
JUNE 6 at SAIS - REAL DEBATE ON IRAQ
Many Guantanamos and Abu Ghraibs All Over Iraq
Break Up The FBI?
Tensions Escalating in Pakistan
Impeachment by The People
Using tools the Founding Fathers gave us can energize calls for impeachment of Bush and Cheney
One Laptop Per Child on 60 Minutes
Howard Cort Paper on Alternative Solutions to Israel-Palestine Conflict
Israelis Target Hamas Leaders, Hamas Targets Fateh Leaders
The Democrats' Foreign Policy Primary
Andrew Young With An Op Ed Titled "The Right Man for the World Bank."
Could Andy Young's political adn moral instincts be so off as to not only come to Paul Wolfowitz's defense but to do so by actually championning him a ...
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Hagel's Stand Commented On at BlogRunner
HAGEL'S STAND - Robert Novak
Chuck Hagel represents millions of Republicans who are repelled by the Democrats' personal assault on President Bush but are deeply unhappy about his ...
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SemiWarriors - Andrew Bacevich in The Nation
But in their contempt for politicians and journalists, Americans should not be too quick to let themselves off the hook. Any serious effort to reduce ...
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Bush could double force by Christmas
What is the U.S. really up to? Are forces being built up throughout the region not so much for Iraq but more for the looming war with Iran and maybe ...
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Rolling Stones Urged to Boycott Israel and Israeli apartheid
Rolling Stones Urged to Boycott Israel and Israeli apartheid
Artists call for Iraq troop withdrawal
Israel threatens to kill Palestinian PM
Iraqis Prepare for possible American "pullout"
Iran's secret plan for summer offensive to force US out of Iraq
The greater likelihood here is that the U.S. and Israel are preparing to attack IRAN this summer...and leaked reports of this kind are a major part of ...
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Peres: Israel to present counter-proposal to Arab peace plan
Robert Fisk: Scores dead as Lebanese army battles Islamists in bloodiest day since civil war
Robert Fisk: Blair's lies and linguistic manipulations
Gore Blasts Bush in 'The Assault on Reason'
On the one hand, Gore has written an un-nostalgic look back at the previous six years that lays out his case as to how the world might look today had ...
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Second Life for Iraq Study Group
DEATH PLOT! Secret U.S. Plot to Kill Al-Sadr!
So Who Was Right? Rudy Guiliani or Ron Paul?
Iraq's Sadr Overhauls His Tactics
Baghdad's Theater of War
Stinking Tech Support
The Old Interview in the Age of Blogs, Email, and YouTube
AIPAC June Conf in Washington State
Maliki and Sadr
Saddam Hussein’s Last Words: "To the Hell that is Iraq!?"
"On the Holy day of Eid, the world watched in horror at the barbaric lynching of President Saddam Hussein of Iraq, allegedly for crimes against human ...
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How the Saudis stole a march on the U.S.
Iraq’s harsh realities disguise its lucrative opportunities
Bush presidency worst in history, says Carter
What Happened to Wolfowitz the Strategist?
Zbigniew Brzezinski Calls Iraq War a Historic, Strategic and Moral Calamity & Says Stop the Trappings of Colonial Tutelage
Israeli Minister Calls for Death of ALL Hamas Leaders
US sponsored Gaza Warlord Dahlan - Palestinian Pinochet Making His Move?
The leader to whom they answer is Mohammed Dahlan, the Gaza warlord who has long been Washington’s anointed favorite to play the role of a Palestinian ...
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Arab Oil States Rethink Link to the Dollar
Chinese Govt Starts to Diversify Investments Away from US Treasury Bills
Fortress American Size of Vatican in Baghdad
"What kind of embassy is it when everybody lives inside and it's blast-proof, and people are running around with helmets and crouching behind sandbag ...
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Air American To Relaunch with More Blogs
Shadowy militants new threat to Lebanon
Israel to twist Arab League 'peace plan' for political and propaganda purposes
There's a long long history to this kind of thing. The Israelis will attempt to draw the Arab League into 'negotiations', and the 'negotiations' will ...
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Lebanon Fighting Reminiscent of Civil War Today
Saboteurs have upper hand in an endless war, says Iraq's Oil Minister
With Blair Gone Expect Official Inquiry into IRAQ War
Take Down That American Flag Car Dealers in Vegas Told
Video YouTube - Civil War in Gaza
Bearded Gazans on razor's edge between life and death
Israelis Move To Ending Hamas - More ASSASSINATIONS LOOM
Jerusalem: 40 facts for 40 years
Iranian Foreign Minister Backtracks...or is it Corrects Israeli Reporting...
Iran and Arab Regimes Clash Over Israeli-Palestinian 'Peace Plans'
"We had some 130 plans in the past 30 years, but none of them were realized because of the approach of the other side (Israel)," Mottaki said during a ...
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Arabs Host Israel at World Economic Forum in Jordan - unpredented photo op
America's Arab Regimes Blast IRAN at Conference
DiCapro: It Is The 11th Hour!
Blasts Target Blair both in Baghdad and Basra
"Where Is Our Soul" New Michael Moore Film SICHO asks
Humans face extinction claims DiCaprio
Iran Calls Bush’s Bluff
Palestinians’ Hard Choice: An Interview With Sari Nusseibeh
House seeks tighter U.S.-Israeli missile defenses
U.S. has tough task to heal rift over Wolfowitz
Iranians Tell Israelis They Have Been Misunderstood
In a rare, if not unprecedented, conversation with an Israeli journalist, Mohammad Larijani, an Iranian politician and scientist whose brother Ali is ...
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Israel, US, Arab Client Regimes All Helping Fateh Against Hamas
The reality is the U.S. and Israel have been helping Fateh against Hamas in all kinds of ways for many years now. Even so corrupt and co-opted Fateh ...
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Hundreds of Millions More for ISRAEL for 'joint missile defense'
Blair tipped to be World Bank president as disgraced Wolfowitz resigns
Carter Condemns Blair's Support for Bush
"And I think the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major tragedy for the ...
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Mortors Explode Nearby As Blair Visits Iraq
Celeste Blog on Gore and REASON
Fighting Plunges Gaza Further Into Chaos
"Our retaliation for (Fatah's) crimes is going to be beyond their imagination," Abu Obeida, spokesman for Hamas's military wing, told The Associated ...
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Wolfowitz Out...Almost
Tony Blair to take over for Paul Wolfowitz at World Bank?
Republican South Caroline May 15 Debate Transcript