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Today's Highlights

The Joan Walsh Syndrome: Justin Raimondo
The Long Retreat: Patrick Buchanan
Still Homeless in Baghdad: Dahr Jamail
Bad and Good News for the Uighurs: Worthington
Military's Expanding Waistline: Pratap Chatterjee

 
 Gareth Porter

Obama Vs. Petraeus Continued

 Rep. Ron Paul

The Law Vs. The Empire

 Jason Ditz

The Israeli Elections

 William Astore

Peace or the Draft?

Netanyahu Charged With Forming Next Israeli Govt    Suicide Bombing Kills at Least 30 at Pakistani Shi'ite Funeral    Iran Markedly Slows Atom Enrichment Expansion-IAEA    Iraqi ‘Shoe-Throwing’ Journalist’s Trial Delayed Yet Again    As Clinton Heads to South Korea, North Says It Is Ready for War    Lieberman Demands Enormous Concessions to Join Likud Govt    Officials: Inspectors Found Graphite, Uranium at Syria Site    Livni Would Consider Joining Likud Coalition, if Lieberman Is Involved    Afghanistan, the Next US Quagmire?    US Delays Payments to Pakistan for Military Service    Court Passes the Buck on Fate of Chinese Muslims    Hamas Offered a Bullet to Bite    Still Homeless in Baghdad    Calls Mount for Obama to Appoint 'Truth Commission'    U.S.-Israel Storm Clouds Ahead?    The Long Retreat    Senator Kerry Goes to Gaza Strip, Avoids Hamas    NATO Official Confirms CIA Drones in Pakistan    The US and Afghan Tragedy    The Joan Walsh Syndrome     Obama: Did Not Press Canada on Afghanistan Troops    Czech President Compares EU to Soviet Union    US Patrol Finds Anger and Distrust in Afghanistan    Indyk: Netanyahu May Seek Syria Deal to Deflect US Pressure    The Full Extent of Labour's Curbs on Civil Liberties in UK    US Envoy Calls Pakistan's Zardari Over Swat Valley Deal    Bad News and Good News for the Guantánamo Uighurs    US Defense Secretary 'Disappointed' Over NATO Response to Troop Call    The Military's Expanding Waistline    Classified Pentagon Report: Strains, Threats Hurt Military Readiness    Gates: US Would Pay More for Disputed Base    Maliki List Tops Iraq Poll but Needs Alliances    Taliban: Afghanistan Will Be 'Graveyard' for US    Is Iran Nearing Nuclear 'Breakout' Ability?    Iran Urges Global Nuclear Disarmament    Q&A: Supply Routes for Western Troops in Afghanistan    Where the Wild Things Are    Freed Gitmo Detainee Claims Torture    The Asian Century    Mosul's Tin-Can Grenades, Car Bombs Test Obama Withdrawal Plan    
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News
Updated February 20, 2009 - 11:08 PM EST
Bomber Kills 30, Wounds 65 at Pakistan Funeral
 
  US Delays Military Payments to Pakistan
  Gates: US Would Pay More for Disputed Kyrgyzstan Base
Afghanistan, the Next US Quagmire?
 
  A US Patrol Finds Anger and Distrust in Afghanistan
  Taliban: Afghanistan Will Be 'Graveyard' for US
  Pentagon Chief 'Disappointed' Over NATO Response to Troop Call
Netanyahu Gets Nod to Form New Israeli Govt
 
  Lieberman Wants Huge Concessions to Join Govt
  Livni Would Consider Joining Likud Coalition, If Lieberman Is Involved
  US-Israel Storm Clouds Ahead?
  US Congressmen Express Shock at Gaza Devastation
Iraqi 'Shoe' Journalist’s Trial Delayed Yet Again
 
  Maliki List Tops Iraq Poll but Needs Alliances
North Korea Warns of War Ahead of Clinton Visit
Iran Markedly Slows Atom Enrichment Expansion: IAEA
Officials: Inspectors Found Graphite, Uranium at Syria Site
Viewpoints
The Military's Expanding Waistline
by Pratap Chatterjee and Tom Engelhardt
Bad News and Good News for the Guantánamo Uighurs  by Andy Worthington
Where the Wild Things Are
by C.J. Maloney
The Long Retreat  by Patrick Buchanan
The Asian Century  by Doug Bandow
The US and Afghan Tragedy
by Khushal Arsala and Stephen Zunes

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Frontline
Czech President Compares EU to Soviet Union
Court Passes the Buck on Fate of Chinese Muslims
Calls Mount for Obama to Appoint 'Truth Commission'
Classified Pentagon Report: Strains, Threats Hurt Military Readiness
Still Homeless in Baghdad
Russia Hopes US Congress Will Pass Nuclear Pact
Blackwater Laying Off Staff as It Adopts New Name
Hamas Offered a Bullet to Bite
 
Senator Kerry Goes to Gaza Strip, Avoids Hamas
Today in Iraq
Mosul's Tin-Can Grenades, Car Bombs Test Obama Withdrawal Plan
Hero or Villain? Iraq's Shoe Thrower Faces Judgment
Iraq a Rare Haven From the Global Financial Crisis – for Now
Iraqi Provincial Election Results
US-Backed Sunni Group Takes Anbar Vote
Soldier Confessed Killing Iraqi to Investigators
Seven Iraqi Soldiers, Police Killed in Bomb Attacks
Thursday: 20 Iraqis Killed, 31 Wounded
Guantánamo
Obama and Harper Skirt Guantánamo Detainee Issue
Freed Gitmo Detainee Claims Torture
Uighurs Still in Limbo After Ruling
China Calls for Return of Guantánamo Bay Inmates
Guantánamo Detention: How Harsh Is It?

'War on Terror'

Spy Agency Focus of Shakeup
Biden Attacks Bush's Intel Policy at Swearing in of New CIA Chief
Anger in Britain as Radical Cleric Wins Payout
The Full Extent of Labour's Curbs on Civil Liberties in UK
Iran
Iran Has More Enriched Uranium Than Thought
IAEA: Iran Nuclear Program Remains Under Surveillance
Is Iran Nearing Nuclear 'Breakout' Ability?
Balochis Intensify Rebellion in Iran
Ahmadinejad: Iran-US Ties Can Change
Iran Urges Global Nuclear Disarmament
Bahrain Halts Gas Talks With Iran Over Insult
Iran Seeks to Defuse Sovereignty Tensions With Bahrain
Iran, Afghanistan to Boost Trade
Israeli Politics
Israel's Coalition Options
Indyk: Netanyahu May Seek Syria Deal to Deflect US Pressure
Palestine/Israel
Israeli Planes Attack Gaza Border, Gaza Rockets Do No Damage
Israeli Troops Briefly Enter Gaza
As US Lawmakers Visit, Mideast Ponders What Comes Next
Mitchell: US Committed to Israel Security, Palestinian State
Israeli Military Head 'Sorry' General Slammed Turks
Egypt
'Egypt Angry' Over Israel Truce Condition
Egypt Recalls Commerce Delegation to Israel
Egyptian Dissident 'Surprised' to Be Freed
Middle East
Al-Qaeda Leader Urges Yemeni Tribes to Rise Up Against Government
Jordan Launches New Facilities for Iraqis, Focus on Businessmen
Colombia
Colombian Minister: US Aid Key to Stability
Colombia Militia Leader Confesses to Milking Public Treasuries
Ecuador
US Objects to Ecuador's Expulsion of Diplomat
 
Afghanistan
US Patrol Finds Anger and Distrust in Afghanistan
Obama: Did Not Press Canada on Afghanistan Troops
NATO Calls for 'Civilian Surge' in Afghanistan
Four Killed in New Afghan Attacks: Officials
Would-Be Suicide Bomber Arrested in Afghan Capital, Seven Rebels Killed
Kabul Eyes Control on Aid, Security in US Review
Q&A: Supply Routes for Western Troops in Afghanistan
East Afghan Winter 'Most Violent': General
Georgia to Send 100 Soldiers to Afghanistan
NATO Commits to Back Afghan Polls
Pakistan
NATO Official Confirms CIA Drones in Pakistan
Swat Valley Deal No Concession to Taliban, Says Pakistan Envoy
US Envoy Calls Pakistan's Zardari Over Swat Valley Deal
US' Payments to Pakistan for Fighting Taliban Delayed
Security Forces Kill 14 Taliban in Bajaur
Cleric Holds Peace Talks With Pakistan Taliban
India
Lawyers Torch Police Station in Southern India
India's Nuclear Submarine Plan Surfaces
21 Indian Muslims Charged With Terrorism
Koreas
Clinton Sees Possible North Korea Power Struggle
Clinton Says North Korean Disarmament Stalled
Many in South Korea Say North Is Just Crying Wolf
China/Tibet
China Issues Call to Crush Tibetan 'Separatists'
China Warns Tibet Clergy Against Demonstrations
Asia
UN Urges Tigers, Sri Lanka to Protect Civilians
Popular Azeri Website Shuts Down Abruptly
Russia
Kremlin Ally Calls for Symbolic Gesture to West
Chechen Brothers Cleared of Murdering Kremlin Critic
NATO
NATO Conducting Anti-Submarine Exercise
Zimbabwe
Mugabe Plays Down Arrest of Rival
Arrested Official's Wife Attacks Zimbabwe's MDC
Somalia
Disagreement Over Somalia Peacekeepers
NATO Planning New Anti-Piracy Mission Off Somalia

Italian Nuns Kidnapped in Somalia Freed

Africa
Sudan Army Says Ally Fought Darfur Rebels
Congo Military to Press on With Hunt for Hutu Rebels
Nigeria Military 'Rescues' Two Kidnapped Russians
United Nations
US Holds Firm on Reparations, Israel in UN Racism Talks
New Chapter in Attempt to Reform UN Security Council
 
Columnists

Justin Raimondo
2/20/2009
The Joan Walsh Syndrome 

Nebojsa Malic
2/19/2009
A Year After

Charles Peña
2/18/2009
Portents From the First
Press Conference

Philip Giraldi
2/17/2009
Renounce Extraordinary Rendition

Ran HaCohen
2/17/2009
Abe Foxman's 'Anti-Semitic Pandemic'

Alan Bock
2/16/2009
The War Recession

Ivan Eland
2/14/2009
Battling Christian Terrorists

Doug Bandow
2/06/2009
Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty: The Battle Continues

David R. Henderson
1/27/2009
Meet the New Boss;
Same as the Old Boss

Praful Bidwai
1/18/2009
'Good Cop, Bad Cop' Approach to Pakistan

Sascha Matuszak
11/10/2008
Business Over Bluster

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