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Highlights
 
Huge Attack on NATO HQ in Kabul Kills at Least Seven, Wounds 90    24 Killed, Including al-Qaeda-Linked Cleric, as Hamas, Gaza Islamists Clash    Hezbollah Chief: We'll Hit Tel Aviv if Beirut Hit    South Ossetia Tries to Disarm Its Citizens    With Karzai Favored to Win, US Walks a Fine Line    GAO: Missile Site Costs Likely to Rise    In Helmand, Caught Between US, Taliban    Gen. McChrystal May Seek More Combat, Less Support in Afghanistan    Pakistan Lifts Political Ban in Tribal Areas    US Raid Kills at Least Eight Afghan Civilians and Police    In Iran, Reformists Call for Investigation Into Supreme Leader    J Street's Muslim Funding for Peace    Bombings Worse Than Nagasaki and Hiroshima    Pakistani Provincial Chief Blames 'Foreign Hands' for Unrest    Barack W. Obama: Strengthening NPT    Businessman: US Must Heed Electronic Terror Threat    Afghan Military Translators Risk Low Pay, Death    Army on Track to Surpass 2008 Suicide Numbers    Iraqi Journalists Protest Intimidation of Media, Internet Censorship    British Captain Removed After Slamming Afghan War    Following Election, Fatah Sets Out to 'Liberate' Gaza    Hardline Iran Cleric Urges Tough Stance on Detainees    Blackwater Still Armed in Iraq    Only Time Can Heal Some Iraqi Wounds    'Civilian Surge' in Afghanistan    Bearing the Burdens of the Imperial City    Cheney's New Gambit    US Faults Iraq Raid That Left Iran Dissidents Dead    At Least Six Dead in Government-Rebel Shootout in Chechnya    The Human Timebomb: Why Was He Given Iraq Job?    France Confirms Russian-Manned Ship Found    Role of US Militarism in Ahmadinejad's Rise     Palestinian PM: It's Not Our Business Whether Israel Is Jewish    Canada Court Says Its Officials Knew US Abused Detainee    Human Rights Watch, Israel in War of Words    Afghan Race Becomes Karzai's Cliffhanger    Afghan Election an Early Test of Obama's War Plan    Israel Begins Sell-Off of Refugees' Land    We’re Just Cannon Fodder for the War on Terror    Why Policy Matters    
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News
Updated August 15, 2009 - 11:32 PM EDT
Huge Blast at NATO Kabul HQ, Kills 7, Wounds 90
 
  Gen. Wants More Combat Troops in Afghanistan
  US Raid Kills at Least Eight Afghan Civilians and Police
  In Helmand, Caught Between US and Taliban
  British Captain Removed After Slamming Afghan War
  Afghan Race Becomes Karzai's Cliffhanger
Pakistan Lifts Political Ban in Tribal Areas
 
  Pakistani Provincial Chief Blames 'Foreign Hands' for Unrest
Blackwater Still Armed in Iraq
 
  US Faults Iraq Raid That Left Iran Dissidents Dead
  Iraqi Journalists Protest Intimidation of Media, Internet Censorship
Reformers Call for Probe of Iran Supreme Leader
 
  Hardline Iran Cleric Urges Tough Stance on Detainees
24 Killed as Hamas, Gaza Islamists Clash
 
  Following Election, Fatah Sets Out to 'Liberate' Gaza
  Palestinian PM: It's Not Our Business Whether Israel Is Jewish
Army on Track to Surpass 2008 Suicide Numbers
J Street's Muslim Funding for Peace
Viewpoints
Role of US Militarism in Ahmadinejad's Rise  by Muhammad Sahimi
Bearing the Burdens of the Imperial City  by Christopher Dowd
Only Time Can Heal Some Iraqi Wounds  by Patrick Cockburn
Bombings Worse Than Nagasaki and Hiroshima  by Laurence M. Vance
Barack W. Obama: Strengthening NPT  by Gordon Prather
Why Policy Matters  by Charles Peña
Cheney's New Gambit  by Ray McGovern
Spies Under the Thumbscrews
The Economist

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Frontline
Israel Begins Sell-Off of Refugees' Land
GAO: Missile Site Costs Likely to Rise
South Ossetia Tries to Disarm Its Citizens
Afghan Military Translators Risk Low Pay, Death
Businessman: US Must Heed Electronic Terror Threat
At Least Six Dead in Govt-Rebel Shootout in Chechnya
France Confirms Russian-Manned Ship Found
 
'War on Terror'
Clinton Tells UK Official to Keep Lockerbee Figure in Jail
Lockerbie Convict Drops Appeal, Seeking Early Transfer
Canada Court Says Its Officials Knew US Abused Detainee
Canada Court Wants Gitmo Detainee's Return
Iraq
Idle Iraqi Date Farms Show Decline of Economy
Soldiers' Sentences Reduced in Deaths of 4 Iraqis
Fridge Bomb Seized in Baaquba
Seized Iraqis Begin Hunger Strike After Danish Church Raid
Obama Names Two Officials to Work With Iraqi Refugees
Six Years After Invasion, Electricity Still Scarce in Baghdad
Friday: 2 Iraqis Killed, 7 Iraqis Wounded
Israel/Palestine
Israeli Military Says All Troops Accounted For
Human Rights Watch, Israel in War of Words
UN Official: Evidence That Israel Abused Human Rights in Gaza
Turkey
Blast in Istanbul Kills One
Turkish PM Says Kurdish Reforms to Begin by Year-End
Middle East
Hezbollah Chief: We'll Hit Tel Aviv if Beirut Hit
Iran Cleric: US Despised for Backing Protesters
The War at Home
War Objector Faces Year in Jail
Safety Concerns Cancel Lynndie England Lecture
 
Afghanistan
Afghan Election an Early Test of Obama's War Plan
With Karzai Favored to Win, US Walks a Fine Line
Vote Leaders Take Campaigns Across Afghanistan
Afghan Hopeful Has Penchant for Details
Who Is Funding the Afghan Taliban? You Don't Want to Know
'Civilian Surge' in Afghanistan
Marines Try a Woman's Touch to Reach Afghan Hearts
US Marines to Help Train Georgian Troop for Afghan Mission
Pakistan
Pakistan Calls on Islamist Militants to Surrender
Drones: Silent Killers, or a Vital Source of Information Against the Taliban?
Pakistan's Dancing Girls Return to Swat Valley
Koreas
South Korea to Renew Its Aid Offer to North Korea
South Korea's Lee Seeks Arms Cut Deal With North
Asia
Webb's Trip to Burma May Be Litmus Test
China's NGOs Fear for the Worst
Libya
US Senators Discuss Military Equipment for Libya
Clinton's Africa Trip Ends With a Promise
Honduras
Honduras Charges Zelaya Supporters With Sedition
Honduras Protests Continue, as Zelaya Visits Chile
 
Columnists

Justin Raimondo
8/14/2009
Why Are We In Afghanistan?

Philip Giraldi
8/13/2009
Wag The Dog, Again

Charles V. Peña
8/12/2009
The Ever Present Military Option

Kelley B. Vlahos
8/11/2009
No Color-Coded Revolution for Afghanistan

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

Nebojsa Malic
8/05/2009
The Lessons of August

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

Additional Contributors
Ehsan Ahrari
Doug Bandow
Uri Avnery
Matthew Barganier
Patrick J. Buchanan
Juan Cole
Jonathan Cook
Christopher Deliso
Sibel Edmonds
Tom Engelhardt
Mike Ewens
Joshua Frank
Aaron Glantz
Leon Hadar
Jorge Hirsch
Scott Horton
Dahr Jamail
Kathy Kelly
William S. Lind
Jim Lobe
Ray McGovern
Thomas Gale Moore
Brendan O'Neill
Rep. Ron Paul
John Pilger
Murray Polner
Gareth Porter
Gordon Prather
Charley Reese
Paul Craig Roberts
Mark Rothschild
Michael Scheuer
Norman Solomon
Paul Sperry
Joseph Stromberg
Jon Basil Utley
Jude Wanniski
Teresa Whitehurst
Andy Worthington


 
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