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Seismic Shift or Non-Decision by Bush on Iran? |
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Middle East
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Written by Gareth Porter
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Saturday, 19 July 2008 |
 WASHINGTON - The U.S. decision to send the State Department’s third-ranking official to sit in on the meeting between European Union foreign affairs chief Javier Solana and Iran’s nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili Saturday has been hailed as a major diplomatic breakthrough, but it is too soon to pop the champagne cork. Be first to comment this article
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As Obama Heads to Middle East and Europe, Let's Talk About U.S. Imperialism |
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News & Views
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Written by Roberto Lovato, Of America
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Saturday, 19 July 2008 |
 As Obama prepares for his world tour, we must prepare to ask him the tough questions about imperialism and the U.S. global military machine.
Just a week before Barack Obama's highly anticipated first tour of Europe and the Middle East as presidential candidate, CNN's Fareed Zakaria asked the Senator about the kinds of experiences that will inform his ability to occupy the most powerful foreign policy position on earth. Be first to comment this article |
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Ashcroft Defends Waterboarding In Front of House Judiciary Committee |
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Human Rights
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Written by Lara Jakes Jordan
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Friday, 18 July 2008 |
 WASHINGTON - Former Attorney General John Ashcroft said Thursday “it was not a hard decision” to withdraw Justice Department legal opinions that approved the use of harsh interrogation methods which critics say amount to torture.Be first to comment this article |
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Bush to Speed Iraq Troop Withdrawal in to Help McCain |
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Iraq
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Written by Leonard Doyle, Independent UK
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Friday, 18 July 2008 |
 Can the president synonymous with a military disaster put a positive spin on McCain's Iraq plan?
President George Bush wants to speed up the withdrawal of American combat troops from Iraq, a move that could help to quell the anti-war anxieties of voters before November's presidential election. Be first to comment this article |
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Bring Me the Head of Osama bin Laden |
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Op-Eds
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Written by Steve Weissman
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Thursday, 17 July 2008 |
 If Osama bin Laden consciously set out to lure the United States into an ever-widening, never-ending and militarily unwinnable war, President George W. Bush is providing exactly the war the bearded one wanted. Start with Iraq, where for all his talk of military success, Mr. Bush has just failed to get Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to accept a long-term Status of Forces Agreement. The Iraqis, it turns out, stubbornly insist on a timetable for withdrawing US troops and a commitment to block the Israelis from using Iraqi airspace to bomb Iran. Such are the political fruits of imperial adventure in a world that has long rejected colonial rule. Nor should it come as a surprise to hear our badly overstretched military brass echoing Barack Obama in Monday's New York Times. It seems that everyone in the know now wants to withdraw combat forces from the Iraqi quagmire to send them to fight the resurgent Taliban and opium-rich warlords in an Afghan morass.Be first to comment this article |
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Bush Can Hold Terrorist Suspect Indefinitely: US Court |
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Human Rights
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Written by Agence France Presse
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Thursday, 17 July 2008 |
 WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that President George W. Bush has the power to keep a terrorist suspect jailed indefinitely, but that the detainee has the right to challenge his detention as an “enemy combatant.”
The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, took up the case of Ali Al-Marri, the only “war on terror” suspect arrested on US soil, and reversed a June 2007 decision by a lower court denying Bush the power to keep the suspect jailed indefinitely and ordering his release.
By a 5-4 decision, the Richmond court, reputedly one of the most conservative in the country, said: “if the government’s allegations about Al-Marri are true, Congress has empowered the president to detain him as an enemy combatant.”
At the same time, the court also decided by a 5-4 vote that “al-Marri has not been afforded sufficient process to challenge his designation as an enemy combatant.” Be first to comment this article |
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First Guantánamo Interrogation Video Released: Prisoner Moans 'Kill Me' |
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Human Rights
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Written by Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian
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Wednesday, 16 July 2008 |
 Footage showing interrogation at detention camp released by Canadian teenager's lawyers.
The secrets of interrogation at Guantanamo Bay prison camp were broadcast for the first time yesterday in grainy footage of a teenage inmate calling for his mother and begging: "Help me, help me."
Yesterday's release of eight minutes of video of Canadian intelligence agents questioning a Canadian detainee, Omar Khadr, marked the first time the public has been able to witness the interrogation of a suspect at the camp. Be first to comment this article |
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Robert Fisk: 'Europe has a duty to educate the US about Middle East' |
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Written by Robert Fisk
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Wednesday, 16 July 2008 |
 Walid Moallem leans forward in the armchair of the Paris Intercontinental Opera. "It's all on the record," he snaps. It usually is. The Syrians can be up- front when you least expect it. Syria's Foreign Minister is one of their top negotiators, a man who knows Israel's diplomats almost as well as they know themselves, who understands all the traps of the Middle East.
Tell me who murdered Rafiq Hariri, I ask him. And Mr Moallem grins bleakly and reaches into his jacket pocket. His beefy hand emerges clutching a wad of pale green Syrian hundred-pound notes. "Tell me the answer and you can take all my money," he says. Be first to comment this article |
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