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Today's Highlights

The Audacity of Hype: Justin Raimondo
A Short Honeymoon: Alan Bock
Pundits Debate Nuclear Iran: Ali Gharib
Arabs Uneasy About Joining IDF: Daan Bauwens
Foreign Policy Realignment?: Leon Hadar

 
 Gareth Porter

Iranian 'Smoking Laptop' Documents Forged

 Michael Scheuer

Still Marching Toward Hell

 Woody Powell

The Virtues of Peace

 Scott Horton

What Next for Bush's 'Detainees'?

Iraqi Soldier Kills Four US Troops After Argument    Minute Uranium Traces Complicate Syria Investigation    Arabs Uneasy About Joining Israeli Army    Pundits Debate the Inevitability of a Nuclear Iran    UN Council Warms to Idea of More Congo Troops    World Leaders at Nation's Doorstep, but Next President Isn't Taking Meetings    Iraqi Sunni Guards Join Shi'ite Government Payroll    Bush Intelligence Policy to Stay Largely Intact Under Obama    Obama Mulls Keeping Gates on Board    Israeli Vice Premier Eyes Destruction of Gaza Villages    Taliban's Khyber Pass Hijacking Threatens NATO Supply Route    Obama Advisers Call Gitmo Closure a Priority    Top Two Intel Officials Expect to Lose Jobs    The Audacity of Hype    US Defends Missile Defence Plan    Antiwar Camp Urges Obama to Dump Gates    IAEA Irked at 'Premature' Syria Nuclear Disclosures    Helicopters Bomb Militants to Recover US Vehicles    UN Chief Says 100,000 Refugees Trapped in Congo    Gates' Visit Shows US Support for Ukraine, Baltics    Baghdad Sees New Spate of Deadly Bombings    Afghan Insurgency Stronger Than Ever    Lawyers Condemn Rising State Violence in Zimbabwe    The US Can Quit Iraq, or It Can Stay. But It Can't Do Both    Israeli Police Evict Palestinian Couple From Home of 52 Years    Somali Islamic Insurgents Take Two Strategic Towns    After the Silence    Will the Constitution's Trial Rights Finally Be Vindicated?    A Short Honeymoon    Seoul Searching    Baghdad Bridge of Death Becomes Bridge of Hope    Hitting the Deck Running    Foreign Policy Realignment?    Prisoner Release Highlights Guantánamo Failures    
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News
Updated November 12, 2008 - 5:38 PM EST

Obama Mulls Keeping Gates on Board

 
 

Antiwar Camp Urges Obama to Dump Gates

Bush Intelligence Policy to Stay Largely Intact

 
 

Top Two Intel Officials Expect to Lose Jobs

 

Obama Advisers Call Gitmo Closure a Priority

Iraqi-US Soldiers' Argument Leads to Shoot-Out
 
  Three Days of Deadly Blasts Rattle Baghdad
  Iraq Dissatisfied With US Reply on Security Pact
  Kurdish Expansion Moves Threaten Stability in Northern Iraq
 

Bombing Shows Fragility of Iraq's Security Gains

 

Wednesday: 4 US Soldiers, 31 Iraqis Killed; 109 Iraqis Wounded

Afghan Insurgency Stronger Than Ever
 
 

Pakistani Taliban's Khyber Pass Hijacking Threatens NATO Supply Route

Minute Uranium Traces Complicate Syria Probe

 
 

IAEA Irked at 'Premature' Syria Nuclear Disclosures

Pundits Debate the Inevitability of a Nuclear Iran

 
 

World Powers to Meet Anew on Iran Sanctions

Israeli Vice Premier Eyes Destruction of Gaza Villages

 
 

Israeli Police Evict Palestinian Couple From Home of 52 Years

Viewpoints
Hitting the Deck Running  by Jeff Huber
Prisoner Release Highlights Guantánamo Failures  by Andy Worthington
Will the Constitution's Trial Rights Finally Be Vindicated?  by Thomas R. Eddlem
Foreign Policy Realignment?
by Leon Hadar
After the Silence  by H.D.S. Greenway
Seoul Searching  by Doug Bandow

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Frontline

World Leaders at Nation's Doorstep, but Next President Isn't Taking Meetings

Iraqi Sunni Guards Join Shi'ite Government Payroll
Bush 'Will Miss Commander-In-Chief Role'

US Official Insists Missile Defense Not Targeted at Russia

Pakistani Helicopters Bomb Militants to Recover US Vehicles

Arabs Uneasy About Joining Israeli Army

 
Somali Islamic Insurgents
Take Two Strategic Towns
Today in Iraq

Iraqi FM in Damascus to Hold Talks With Syrian Officials

Battle for Mosul Hangs in the Balance

UN: Many Christians Who Fled Mosul Have Returned

Iraqi Town Defies al-Qaeda

Baghdad Bridge of Death Becomes Bridge of Hope

Iraq Signs $3.5 Billion Deal for China to Develop Oil Field

Attacks Continue

Baghdad Sees New Spate of Deadly Bombings

Car Bomb Injures 15 in Mosul

Baghdad Street Sweepers Clear Bodies After Bombings

Shopping Amid Bombings in Baghdad's Vibrant Souks

Tuesday: 7 Iraqis Killed, 51 Wounded

Occupying Iraq

Britons Hand Over Basra Airport to Iraqis Soon

UK Show Examines US Military Damage to Babylon

'War on Terror'

French Terrorism Fight May Offer Obama an Alternative

Terror Trial Medic Tried to Join UK Army

5 Held in Terrorist Plot in '05 Are Now on Trial in Australia

Koreas

North Korea Says Will Close Land Border With South

South Korea Sets Up Panel on North's Rights Abuses

Spy Agency Rejects North Korea Kim's Stroke Report

North Korea's Showcase Capital Undergoing Facelift

Asia

China Says No Progress Made at Tibet Talks

Harsh Sentences for Burma Rebels

Ousted Japanese General Defends Comments About WWII

Taiwan's Ex-President Ordered Detained

Congo
UN Council Warms to Idea of More Congo Troops

Conflict Makes Congo Worst Place to Be a Child

UN Chief Says 100,000 Refugees Trapped in Congo

Congo Troops 'Looting Villages'

Zimbabwe

Lawyers Condemn Rising State Violence in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe Police Crack Down on Protesters

Zimbabwe: Activists Say Violence Increasing

Cash-Strapped UN Cuts Rations for Hungry Zimbabwe

Neighbors Urge Zimbabwe to Form Unity Government

Opposition Gloomy as Regional Leaders Discuss Harare Impasse

Africa

Arms Race, Uneasy Peace in Sudan

Rwanda Expels German Envoy

 
Afghanistan
Obama Seeks New Approach in Afghanistan

British Official: Afghanistan as High a Priority as World Wars

Red Cross: Poor Security Hampers Afghan Relief Effort

Pakistan

11 Taliban Killed in Swat, Seven in Bajaur

For Pakistan's Tribesmen, a Difficult, Deadly Choice

Suicide Attack Kills Four in Peshawar

Pakistan Suffered Most From Afghan Conflict, UN Told

Pakistan Scrambles to Prevent Bankruptcy

South Asia

India to Upgrade Nine Airbases Along Pakistani Border

India Police Say They Hold 9 From Hindu Terrorist Cell

Bangladesh: Myanmar Exits Disputed Waters, Troops Alert

Maldives Swears in Former Prisoner as President

Iran

ElBaradei: Obama Openness May Help IAEA With Iran

Turkish Leader Volunteers to Be US-Iran Mediator

Iran Test-Fires New Missile Near Iraq

Ex-KGB General Cautions US Against Iran War

Is Iran's Ahmadinejad Losing Chance for Vote Win?

Iranian Papers Praise President's Letter to Obama

Lebanon

Hezbollah Chief Sees No Change in US Foreign Policy Under Obama

Lebanon Raids 'Mossad Spies' Flat

Israel/Palestine

UN Sees 'Unique' Chance for Arab, Israeli Leaders to Meet

UN Says Food Aid to Halt for Thousands in Gaza

Meeting of Palestinian Factions Postponed

Obama Adviser Denies Hamas Meeting

3 Bedouin Killed Near Egypt-Israel Border

Abbas Says Israel Has Proposed Jerusalem Concessions in the Past

Livni Distances Herself From Olmert Comments on '67 Borders

Israel Deploys Remote-Controlled Guns Along Gaza

Secular-Religious Divide Shows in Jerusalem Race

Russia

Senior US Diplomat Headed to Moscow for Talks

Russia's Aging Navy Still Packs a Deadly Punch

Russia's Medvedev Submits Draft Law on Longer Term

Global Crisis Hits Russian Arms Makers

Europe

On NATO's Table, Ukraine and a Test of Russian Ties

Gates' Visit Shows US Support for Ukraine, Baltics

US Urges Ukraine NATO Membership, Action Unlikely

UN Chief Urges Kosovo to Reconsider EU Mission Plan

 
Columnists

Justin Raimondo
11/12/2008
The Audacity of Hype

Alan Bock
11/12/2008
A Short Honeymoon

David R. Henderson
11/11/2008
A Veterans Day Tribute

Sascha Matuszak
11/10/2008
Business Over Bluster

Ivan Eland
11/08/2008
Good Bye Neoconservatives. Hello to Their Liberal Brethren?

Doug Bandow
11/07/2008
The American People Render Their Electoral Judgment: Time to Finish Off the Neoconservatives

Ran HaCohen
11/07/2008
Black Israeli Voices on Obama's Victory

Nebojsa Malic
11/06/2008
Obama's Choice

Philip Giraldi
11/04/2008
Obama's Neocon in Residence

Charles Peña
10/29/2008
You Can't Cut Spending
and Spare 'Defense'

Praful Bidwai
9/05/2008
Lawmaker's Disclosure May Torpedo Nuke Deal

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