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Highlights
 
At Least 48 Killed in Latest Iraq Bombings    Bombs Targeting Shiites in Iraq Kill at Least 48    Iran Police Chief Admits to Prisoner Abuse    Increasing Doubts Indonesian Terror Leader Was Actually Killed    Honduras Prohibits Visit of OAS Crisis Negotiators    Obama Embraces a Bush Tactic: Signing Statements    Fatah's Only Jewish Member Seeks Key Position    Study to Seek Clues to Soldier Suicides    Netanyahu Vows to Never Evict Any Settlers    Clinton: US Supported Iran Protesters 'Behind the Scenes'    Top Adviser Calls for 45,000 More US Troops in Afghanistan    US Open to Direct Talks With North Korea    Pakistani Taliban Death Reports Spur Flurry of Rumors and Denials    Clinton: US Doesn't Expect Iran to Accept Talks    Poll: US 'Biggest' Threat Say Pakistanis    Obamageddon    GOP Senator Warns Against Pulling a 'Rumsfeld' in Afghanistan    UN: Hamid Karzai's Government Using State Resources to Swing Afghan Election    Colombia Hands Over Captured Ecuador Troops    Chavez Urges Military to Be Prepared for Conflict    Abbas's Party Keeps 'Right to Resist,' Angering Israel    Nagasaki Mayor Urges Worldwide Nuclear Arms Ban    Holder to Name Prosecutor to Probe CIA Abuses: Report    UN Says Violence Threatens Afghan Poll    White House: Afghan War Not in Crisis    British Contractor Arrested for Killing Fellow Contractors in Baghdad    The Israel Lobby May Be Headed Toward Obsolescence    Pakistan Interior Minister Demands Taliban Prove Leaders Are Alive    Poll: 66 Percent of Israelis Want Settlement Expansion in Jerusalem to Continue    Put Moussavi, Khatami, Karroubi on Trial Says Iran General    Netanyahu Calls Gaza Withdrawal 'A Mistake'    National Security Advisor: Gitmo Closed by January    Is the Israel Lobby in a Panic?    The Persistence of Empire    Eritrea Confounds US in Somalia    Iraqi Lawmaker: Only 50,000 US Troops Will Be Left by Mid-2010    Our Tin-Pot Autocrat in Tbilisi    The Case for Leaving Iraq – Now    An Antiwar Effort Only the Right Can Lead    Lost in Military Limbo    
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News
Updated August 10, 2009 - 6:13 PM EDT
Bombs Targeting Iraq Shi'ites Kill 48
Poll: US 'Biggest' Threat, Say Pakistanis
 
  Pakistani Taliban Death Reports Spur Flurry of Rumors and Denials
  Pakistan Taliban Commander Denies Shootout With Rival

Top US Commander: Taliban Winning in Afghanistan

 
  5,000 More US Troops Urged for Afghanistan
  UN: Karzai's Govt Using State Resources to Swing Afghan Election
Clinton: US Aided Iran Protest 'Behind the Scenes'
 
  Iran's Police Chief Acknowledges Prisoner Abuse
  Put Moussavi, Khatami, Karroubi on Trial, Says Iran General
  Clinton: US Doesn't Expect Iran to Accept Talks
Israel PM Vows Never to Evict Settlers
 
  Abbas' Party Keeps 'Right to Resist,' Angering Israel
US Willing to Hold Direct Talks With North Korea
Doubts Grow Over Death of Indonesian Terrorist
Viewpoints
An Antiwar Effort Only the Right Can Lead  by John V. Walsh
The Case for Leaving Iraq – Now
by Tim McGirk
The Israel Lobby May Be Headed Toward Obsolescence  by Michelle Goldberg
The Persistence of Empire
by David Bromwich
Lost in Military Limbo  by Dahr Jamail, Sarah Lazare, and Tom Engelhardt
Is the Israel Lobby in a Panic?
by Rami G. Khouri

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Frontline
National Security Adviser: Gitmo Closed by January
Nagasaki Mayor Urges Worldwide Nuclear Arms Ban
Paperwork, Not Bomb Threat, Turns Back China-Bound Afghan Flight
Study to Seek Clues to Soldier Suicides
Chavez Urges Military to Be Prepared for Conflict
Eritrea Confounds US in Somalia
Netanyahu Calls Gaza Withdrawal 'A Mistake'
 
'War on Terror'
Holder to Name Prosecutor to Probe CIA Abuses: Report
Were NC Terror Suspect's Stories an Exaggeration?
UK Denies Role in Terror Suspects' Torture
Iraq
Iraqi Lawmaker: Only 50,000 US Troops Will Be Left by Mid-2010
Iraqi Journalists Cry Foul Over Bank Heist War of Words; VP's Bodyguard Among the Robbers
British Contractor Arrested for Killing Fellow Contractors in Baghdad
British Consul Vows to Intervene to Ease Tension Between Iraq, Kuwait
Turkey to Treat Iraqis Wounded in Bomb Attacks
51 US Soldiers in Iraq Diagnosed With Swine Flu
Sunday: 2 Foreign Contractors, 7 Iraqis Killed; 24 Iraqis Wounded
Iran
Iran Judiciary Looks to Calm Prison Abuse Outrage
Rice Denounces Iran 'Show Trials'
Iran Commander Urges More Control of Embassies
Iraq Hopeful About Release of Americans in Iran
White House: Iran Confirms 3 US Hikers in Custody
Palestine/Israel
Poll: 66 Percent of Israelis Want Settlement Expansion in Jerusalem to Continue
Palestinian Fatah Seeks Renewal, Rejuvenation
Fatah Members in Gaza Finally Vote in Internal Elections
Israeli Raids Leave Six Militants Dead
Israeli Infrastructure Minister Faces Lawsuit Over Refusal to Meet Arab MP
Israeli MPs Scuffle With Expelled Arab Family in East Jerusalem
Israeli Gunboats Fire at Palestinian Fishing Boats
Gaza Militants Fire Mortar Rounds Into Israel: Army
Lebanon
Hezbollah Warns of 'Tougher Response Than 2006'
Israel Warns Hezbollah Over Assassination Report
Russia
After a Decade in Power, Putin Not Ready to Quit
Ship With Russian Crew Disappears: Report
Spain
Bomb Blasts Hit Mallorca, ETA Suspected: Authorities
Basque Separatists Claim 4 Deadly Attacks in Spain
Chechnya
Chechen Leader: Slain Activist 'Had No Conscience'
 
Pakistani Taliban
Pakistan Interior Minister Demands Taliban Prove Leaders Are Alive
Pakistan Taliban 'To Prove' Baitullah Mehsud Is Alive
US, Pakistan Increasingly Believe Mehsud Dead
Mehsud's Aide Says He Is Alive but Ill
Mehsud Alive, Claims Foreign News Agency
Pakistan
Sharif: No Need for Resolution to Charge Musharraf
Eight Killed in Northwestern Pakistan Combat
India
England Withdraws Badminton Team From India Meet Due to Attack Fears
Afghanistan
UN Says Violence Threatens Afghan Poll
British, Three Afghan Soldiers Killed: Military
Taliban: Awaiting US Response on Captured Soldier
US to Hunt Down Afghan Drug Lords Tied to Taliban
Opium Takes Over Entire Afghan Families, Villages
GOP Senator Warns Against Pulling a 'Rumsfeld' in Afghanistan
North Korea
North Korea Wants Better Ties With US: Security Adviser
Kim Jong Il in 'Full Control' of North Korea, National Security Chief Says
North Korea Using Clinton Visit 'To Promote Kim's Son'
North Korea Ship Crew Uncooperative: India Investigators
Indonesia
Doubts Raised That Dead Indonesian Terrorist Was Top Leader
Indonesia Awaits DNA Test to Confirm Terror Leader's Death
Indonesian Leaders Praise Raids
China
Lawyer's Detention Shakes China's Rights Movement
Venezuela/Colombia/Ecuador
Chavez Claims Colombian Troops Entered Venezuela
Venezuela Orders Ambassador Back to Colombia
Colombia Hands Over Captured Ecuador Troops
Americas
Honduras Prohibits Visit of OAS Crisis Negotiators
Protests, Heavy Security Mark North America Summit
Africa
Madagascar Rivals Agree on Transition Deal
Clinton Nudges Oil Producer Angola on Democracy
 
Columnists

Justin Raimondo
8/10/2009
Obamageddon

Ivan Eland
8/08/2009
Treat North Korea As a Child Psychologist Would

Philip Giraldi
8/06/2009
Export Cars, Not Democracy

Nebojsa Malic
8/05/2009
The Lessons of August

Kelley B. Vlahos
8/04/2009
Who's to Blame When Vets Turn Homicidal?

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

Ran HaCohen
7/20/2009
Fascism Needs an Enemy

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

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

Edouard Husson
5/22/2009
The Virtues of Gorbachevism

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