29 February 2008 | Uncategorized | Margaret Griffis
Updated at 12:23 a.m. EST, March 1, 2008In northern Iraq, Turkey began its troop pullout just in time for the weekly prayer day. Meanwhile, a Christian archbishop was kidnapped in Mosul. In Baghdad, an execution order was signed for “Chemical Ali” who killed tens of thousands of Kurds while working as his cousin Saddam Hussein’s [...]
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29 February 2008 | Uncategorized | Aaron Glantz
US veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are planning to descend on Washington from Mar. 13-16 to testify about war crimes they committed or personally witnessed in those countries. "The war in Iraq is not covered to its potential because of how dangerous it is for reporters to cover it," said Liam [...]
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29 February 2008 | Uncategorized | Justin Raimondo
I must be getting old. This virus, or whatever the heck it is, really knocked me for a loop. It’s funny, but I recall thinking, just before I came down with this, that I’d managed to entirely avoid getting sick this winter, and – whammo! Hubris – it’s the bane of mankind. At any rate, [...]
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29 February 2008 | Uncategorized | Tom Engelhardt
In the week that oil prices once again crested above $100 a barrel and more Americans than at any time since the Great Depression owed more on their homes than the homes were worth; in the year that the subprime market crashed, global markets shuddered, the previously unnoticed credit-default swap market threatened to go [...]
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29 February 2008 | Uncategorized | Doug Bandow
The presidential election is little more than eight months away and the battle lines already seem formed. The Democratic nominee, whether Hillary Clinton, or as looks increasingly likely, Barack Obama, will push economic and social issues while downplaying foreign policy. The presumptive Republican nominee, John McCain, will emphasize national security while attempting to appear [...]
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29 February 2008 | Uncategorized | Joshua Frank
In an attempt to squelch rumors that he is pro-Palestinian, or god forbid Muslim, Barack Obama made it clear in the final Democratic Presidential debate on Tuesday that he is anything but. After being prodded by NBC’s Tim Russert on the issue, Obama said he has long been a "stalwart friend of Israel’s," believing [...]
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28 February 2008 | Uncategorized | Margaret Griffis
Updated at 6:15 p.m. EST, Feb. 28, 2009Millions of Shi’ite Muslims are in Karbala today for the Arbaeen religious observance. Violence has been unexpectedly light following attacks on pilgrims earlier in the week. Overall, at least 13 Iraqis were killed and another 12 were wounded in the latest round of violence. Five Arab nationals were [...]
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28 February 2008 | Uncategorized | Andy Worthington
This has been another terrible week for Guantánamo’s Military Commissions, established by Dick Cheney and his close advisors in November 2001 to try, convict and execute those responsible for 9/11 through a novel process so far removed from the US court system and the military’s own judicial procedures that the tainted fruit of torture would [...]
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28 February 2008 | Uncategorized | David R. Henderson
KING HENRY V [disguised as a fellow soldier] I dare say you love him not so ill, to wish him here alone, howsoever you speak this to feel other men’s minds: methinks I could not die any where so contented as in the king’s company; his cause being just and his quarrel honourable. WILLIAMS [...]
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28 February 2008 | Uncategorized | William S. Lind
If the Balkans had an anthem, it would be that 1950’s doo-wop hit, “Fools rush in, where angels fear to tread.” The latest Balkan fools are the United States and the European Union, which have rushed in to recognize what Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica rightly calls the “fake state of Kosovo.” Why is [...]
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