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British Opposition Leader Says Strong Case for More Troops to Afghanistan    Michigan Prison May Hold Guantánamo Bay Detainees    Arrests in Bank Robbery Create a Rift Between Iraqi Officials    Veteran Suicide's Rising Toll    US Weighs Cutting Off Iran's Gasoline Imports if Nuclear Talks Are Rejected    Without Opium, Afghan Village Economy Spirals Into Poverty    Georgia, Russia Trade Accusations as South Ossetia Tensions Flare    Pentagon May Speed Bunker-Buster Bomb    Spasm of Religious Violence Leaves Pakistani Christians in Mourning, Frustration    No End in Sight as Britain Faces 'Decades' of War in Afghanistan    Iran Trials Condemned as Court Threatens to Jail Critics    Panetta: 'Reality' of 9/11 Excuses Bush Scandals    British Govt Hopes to Tie War to Security at Home    Tell US Why We're in Afghanistan, British MPs Say    Mousavi Says Trial Confessions 'Forced by Torture'    Iraqi Army Officers Pulled $4.8-Million Bank Heist, Police Say    UK Troops in Afghanistan Suffer Over 50 Amputations    Israeli Minister Accuses Fatah of 'Declaration of War'    Netanyahu: We Uprooted Israelis From Gaza, and Now It Is a Terror Base    Over 50 Palestinians Ousted in Culmination of East Jerusalem Legal Battle    Is America About to Be Overrun by the Chinese/Russians/Anybody?    Inept at Both Killing and Coddling Terrorists    Remains of Navy Pilot Killed in 1991 Iraq War Found    Israeli Police: Indict Lieberman on Multiple Graft Charges    Pakistan Police Lodge Charges Against Cleric    Obama Admin Considers Military-Civilian Terror Prison    Allegations That Britain Colluded in Torture of Terror Suspects Reach European Court    UK Plans 2,000 More Afghan Troops    How Many Civilian Deaths Are Acceptable?    As Mass Graves Are Filled, Photo Raises New Questions About Nigerian Cleric's Killing    Western Hubris Won't Reform Iran    9 NATO Troops Die in Afghanistan This Weekend, Including 6 GIs    Britain's Rendition Cover-Up    Obama Courts Human Rights Abusers in Taliban Fight    America Hears a Gaffe, Russia Sees a Plot    
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News
Updated August 3, 2009 - 10:36 PM EDT
Britain Faces 'Decades' of War in Afghanistan
 
  Bomb Kills 10, Wounds 20 in Western Afghanistan
  British Govt Hopes to Tie War to Security at Home
  Without Opium, Afghan Village Economy Spirals Into Poverty
  9 NATO Troops Die in Afghanistan This Weekend, Including 6 GIs
50 Palestinians Evicted, Settlers Take Homes
 
  Israeli Minister Accuses Fatah of 'Declaration of War'
Iran Court Threatens to Jail Critics of Trials
 
  Mousavi Says Trial Confessions 'Forced by Torture'
  US Weighs Cutting Off Iran's Gasoline if Nuclear Talks Are Rejected
Panetta: 'Reality' of 9/11 Excuses Bush Scandals
 
  Obama Admin Considers Military-Civilian Terror Prison
  Michigan Prison May Hold Guantánamo Bay Detainees
Pentagon Eyes Accelerated 'Bunker Buster' Bomb
Georgia, Russia Trade Barbs as S. Ossetia Tensions Flare
Nigeria: Mass Graves Filled, Photo Questions Cleric's Killing
Viewpoints
How Many Civilian Deaths Are Acceptable?  by Tom Hayden
Life in the Bubble: At Home in the Israeli Settler State  by Ed Kinane
Is America About to Be Overrun by the Chinese/Russians/Anybody?  by Justin Logan
A Jeremiad and a Message of Hope
by Uri Avnery
Britain's Rendition Cover-Up
by Clive Stafford Smith
Western Hubris Won't Reform Iran
by Kevin Sullivan

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Frontline
Sands Hid Fate of Gulf War Pilot Lost Since '91
UK Troops in Afghanistan Suffer Over 50 Amputations
US to Push Peace in Middle East Media Campaign
Army Wants More Officers
Veteran Suicide's Rising Toll
Neighbors Frown Over Military Family's Tattered American Flag
Allegations That UK Colluded in Torture of Suspects Reach Euro Court
 
Today in Iraq
35 Iranian Dissidents Sent to Baghdad for Questioning
Iraqi Army Officers Pulled $4.8-Million Bank Heist, Police Say
Arrests in Bank Robbery Create a Rift Between Iraqi Officials
Iraq's Tareq Aziz Gets Seven Years Jail in Kurds Case
GIs, Out of Iraq Cities, Have Time on Their Hands
Iraqi PM, Kurd President Meet Over Land, Oil Feud
Attacks Continue
Seven Killed in Iraq Market Bombing
IED Goes Off Near Liquor Store in Baghdad
Civilian Wounded in IED Blast Near His Home in Kut
Sunday: 18 Iraqis Killed, 49 Wounded
Iran
Iran Hardliners Accuse Opposition of 'Treason'
Iranian Revolutionary Targeted by Onetime Associates
Khatami Condemns 'Show Trial' of Iranian Reformists
Key Reformist Figures on Trial in Iran
Conservative Seeks Trials for Iran Bloodshed
Swiss Diplomats Ask Iran About 3 Missing Americans
Palestine/Israel
Netanyahu: We Uprooted Israelis From Gaza, and Now It Is a Terror Base
Israeli Police: Indict Lieberman on Multiple Graft Charges
If Indicted, Lieberman Would Select His Successor as FM
Fatah Agrees to Release 400 Hamas Members
Fatah Convention Draws Palestinian Exiles
Israel Lets Palestinians Use Hebron Road for First Time in 8 Years
Syria
Assad: Golan Will Yet Return to Arab Hands
Guantánamo
Defense Attorneys Proving Key to Guantánamo Resettlement
Yemeni at Guantánamo: Prisoner Without a Country
 
Afghanistan
US to Seek More British Troops for Afghanistan
UK Plans 2,000 More Afghan Troops
UK Opposition Leader Says Strong Case for More Troops to Afghanistan
McCain Says US May Need More Troops in Afghanistan
Tell US Why We're in Afghanistan, British MPs Say
UN Official Calls for Talks With Taliban Leaders
Pakistan
Pakistani Police Lodge Treason Charges Against Key Cleric
Beneath Calm in Pakistani Valley Lie Signs of New Conflict
Swati Refugees Head Home After Army Scatters the Taliban
Spasm of Religious Violence Leaves Pakistani Christians in Mourning, Frustration
Hate Engulfs Christians in Pakistan
Troops Patrol Pakistani City After Riots Kill 8 Christians
Schools Open in Pakistan's Swat Despite Taliban Fear
Malaysia
Dozens in Lockup After Malaysia Police Crush Rally
Malaysian Arrests Put in Question Vow of Rights
Asia
North Korea Agrees to Streamline Border Crossing
Hundreds More Chinese Are Rounded Up
Russia/Georgia
Russia Accuses Georgia of Raising Tension After Report of Attack in South Ossetia
Russia Accused of Altering Georgia Border
Five Russians Killed in Northern Caucasus: Reports
Britain
Report: UK Military Worried Some Soldiers Too Fat
Americas
Venezuela Still Aids Colombia Rebels, New Material Shows
Peruvian Rebels Suspected in Attack That Kills 5
 
Columnists

Justin Raimondo
8/03/2009
'Culturally Sensitive' Imperialism

Ivan Eland
8/01/2009
Was Rummy Really Wrong?

Philip Giraldi
7/30/2009
The Disappearing Palestinian

Charles V. Peña
7/29/2009
Odds Against Nuclear Disarmament

Kelley B. Vlahos
7/28/2009
Today, Henry Gates; Tomorrow, You

Ran HaCohen
7/20/2009
Fascism Needs an Enemy

David R. Henderson
7/17/2009
NPR: 'Murder' a Controversial Concept

Nebojsa Malic
7/15/2009
Overload

Alan Bock
7/06/2009
Independence, Empire Don't Mesh

Edouard Husson
5/22/2009
The Virtues of Gorbachevism
Additional Contributors
Ehsan Ahrari
Doug Bandow
Uri Avnery
Matthew Barganier
Patrick J. Buchanan
Juan Cole
Jonathan Cook
Christopher Deliso
Sibel Edmonds
Tom Engelhardt
Mike Ewens
Joshua Frank
Aaron Glantz
Leon Hadar
Jorge Hirsch
Scott Horton
Dahr Jamail
Kathy Kelly
William S. Lind
Jim Lobe
Ray McGovern
Thomas Gale Moore
Brendan O'Neill
Rep. Ron Paul
John Pilger
Murray Polner
Gareth Porter
Gordon Prather
Charley Reese
Paul Craig Roberts
Mark Rothschild
Michael Scheuer
Norman Solomon
Paul Sperry
Joseph Stromberg
Jon Basil Utley
Jude Wanniski
Teresa Whitehurst
Andy Worthington


 
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