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Highlights
 
US Drone Strike Kills 12 in North Waziristan    Poll: Only 12 Percent of Israelis Think Obama Supports Israel    Iranian Parliament Expected to Reject Ahmadinejad's New Cabinet    'Right-Wing' Blogger Was Allegedly Trained by the FBI    US Military to Stay in Philippines    Detainees Shown CIA Officers' Photos    Iraq Arrests 11 Top Officials After Baghdad Strikes    US Commander 'Frustrated' With Pace of Iraq Training    Arms Expert Warns New Mind Drugs Eyed by Military    Blackwater's Unwritten Death Contract    War? What War?    Egypt Rejects US Nuclear Umbrella     Court Reins in Terror Finance Policy    Reality Is Its Own Caricature for US in Afghanistan and Pakistan    Report: CIA Hired Contractor to Kill al-Qaeda Operatives    US Army to Teach Stressed Soldiers to 'Bounce Back'    Veterans Start Over as Colleges Ignore Experience    Afghanistan Vote: Threats, Anger, Empty Polling Stations    German Party Calls for Plan for Removal of Troops From Afghanistan    Bombings Kill 30, Wound About 200 South of Baghdad    Israeli FM Confirms Settlement Freeze, Says Freeze Won't Be Tolerated for Long    Somalia Fighting Kills at Least 45    Gaza's Radical Islamists: Hamas Is Secular, Serves the Jews    Violence Forces Polls to Shut Amid Low Afghan Turnout    Pundits Predict Terrorists Might Capture Michigan Town to Free Detainees    Diplomats: Iran Improves Access to Nuclear Activities    Afghan Election Is a Moment of Truth for Zealous Liberal Aggressors    US Govt Pays for Anti-Muslim 'Education' Trips to Israel    Officials: Lithuania Hosted Secret CIA Prison to Get 'Our Ear'    Blackwater: CIA Assassins?    The Zero Percent Doctrine    British Chinook Helicopter Shot Down in Afghanistan by Militants    10 More Countries Set to Accept Gitmo Detainees    Ridge Says Bush Administration Pushed to Raise Terror Alert for Re-Election    Lockerbie Figure: 'A Convenient Scapegoat?'    US Air Strike Kills Four Police in Afghanistan    Poll: Most Americans' Say Afghan War Not Worth Fighting    
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News
Updated August 21, 2009 - 3:03 PM EDT
Karzai, Rival Both Declare Victory
 
  Violence, Cynicism Keep Afghan Turnout Low
  Afghan Vote Shows Taliban Still Potent
  German Party Calls for Plan for Removal of Troops From Afghanistan
Iraq Arrests Top Officials After Baghdad Strikes
 
  US Training Commander 'Frustrated' by Lagging Iraqis
  Thursday: 40 Iraqis Killed, 223 Wounded
Iran Parliament to Reject Ahmadinejad Cabinet
 
  Diplomats: Iran Improves Access to Nuclear Activities
12% of Israelis Believe Obama Supports Israel
 
  Gaza's Radical Islamists: Hamas Is Secular, Serves the Jews
US Missile Kills 12 in NW Pakistan
 
  Obama 90 Percent Sure US 'Took Out' Pakistani Taliban Leader
Ridge: Bush Pushed to Raise Alert for Re-Election
 
  CIA Hired Contractor to Kill al-Qaeda Operatives
  Officials: Lithuania Hosted Secret CIA Prison to Get 'Our Ear'
  Pundits: Terrorists Might Capture Michigan Town to Free Detainees
Lockerbie Figure: 'A Convenient Scapegoat?'
US Military to Stay in Philippines
Egypt Rejects US Nuclear Umbrella
Viewpoints
Afghan Election Is a Moment of Truth for Zealous Liberal Aggressors  by Simon Jenkins
Reality Is Its Own Caricature for US in Afghanistan and Pakistan  by William Pfaff
US Govt Pays for Anti-Muslim 'Education' Trips to Israel  by Eli Clifton and Daniel Luban
Blackwater: CIA Assassins?
by Jeremy Scahill
Blackwater's Unwritten Death Contract  by Ray McGovern
State Department: 'Be Afraid! Be Very Afraid!'  by Robert Dreyfuss

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Frontline
Court Reins in US Terror Finance Policy
10 More Countries Set to Accept Gitmo Detainees
US Army to Teach Stressed Soldiers to 'Bounce Back'
Blackwater Disclosure Adds to CIA Worries
Arms Expert Warns New Mind Drugs Eyed by Military
Somalia Fighting Kills at Least 45
 
Afghanistan Election
Violence Forces Polls to Shut Amid Low Afghan Turnout
Obama Vows to Finish Job After 'Successful' Afghan Vote
White House: Afghan Election Outcome Won't Change Policy
Afghan Election: What Outcome Is Best for the US?
Afghan Govt 'Satisfied' With Election Turnout
NATO Chief Hails Afghan Elections as Great Success
Complaint Over Afghan Poll Ink
Afghans Turn to the Twitterverse for Election
Today in Afghanistan
US Air Strike Kills Four Police in Afghanistan
British Chinook Helicopter Shot Down in Afghanistan by Militants
Head of Polish Army Resigns in Row Over Equipment in Afghanistan
Pakistan
Bomb Wounds 7 Close to Pakistan Capital
Pakistan's Lawyers Above Law?
Pakistan Hopes Afghan Vote Will Bring Stability
Koreas
North Korea Holds US Talks, Moves to Ease Border Restrictions
US Firm on Talks as North Koreans Pay Rare Visit
US: Bilateral Talks With N. Korea Must Be in Six-Nation Framework
South Korea Agrees to Visit by North
India to Inspect North Korean Ship in Bigger Port
China
China Slams US for Violating 'National Interests'
China's Secretive Military Launches Web Site
Asia
Myanmar Military Gains on Rebels as Villagers Flee to Safety
Group Finds More Unmarked Graves in Indian Kashmir
Africa
Somali Rebels Retake Two Towns
Nigeria Deports Islamist Sect Members to Niger
'Smart Sanctions' for Sudan Could Help South: US Envoy
Congo's Militias Lure Former Rebels From Burundi
Swiss President Apologizes Over Kadhafi Son's Arrest
'War on Terror'
CIA Said to Use Outsiders to Put Bombs on Drones
Detainee Plan Draws Fear, Opposition in Michigan
Detainees Shown CIA Officers' Photos
Judge Rejects Challenge to Overseas Wiretap Law
Ex-Syrian Soldier Pleads Innocent to Arms Dealing
'Right-Wing' Blogger Was Allegedly Trained by the FBI
Australia-Bound Passengers Caught in Mid-Air Bomb Scare
 
Iraq
Al-Qaeda Emerges as Main Suspect in Iraq Bombings
Gun-Loving Kurds All Fired Up
Bombings Kill 30, Wound About 200 South of Baghdad
Iraqis Blame Bombings on Political Infighting
Iraqi Govt Accepts Resignation of Kurdish Deputy PM
Security Stepped Up After Baghdad Bombings
Iraqis Can Contain Surge in Terrorism, Says Petraeus
US Officials Say Baghdad Blasts Attack on International Community
Thursday: 40 Iraqis Killed, 223 Wounded
Palestine/Israel
Abbas Says US Still Insists on Freeze of Israeli Settlements
Israelis Unhappy With Fatah Conference Results, Says Poll
Israeli FM Confirms Settlement Freeze, Says Freeze Won't Be Tolerated for Long
Israel PM Summons Minister Over Call to Defy US
Hamas Official Upbeat on Fatah Reconciliation
Israel-Swedish Row
Israeli FM Likens Swedish Counterpart to Nazi-Era Officials
Swedish Govt Distances Itself From Ambassador's Public Condemnation of Newspaper Article
Middle East
Families: US Hikers Detained in Iran Are Harmless
Obama Urges Simultaneous Moves Toward Mideast Peace
Mitchell to Finalize Gestures by Middle East Powers: Official
Retired Lebanon Official Confesses to Spying for Israel
Syria, Iraq and Turkey 'To Discuss Water Shortage'
Russia
Arctic Sea Crew, Hijackers Interrogated in Moscow
Putin Orders Probe of Creaking Infrastructure
Belarus
President Says Belarus Ready to Work With West
Colombia
Colombian Senate Approves Bill Allowing President to Run for Third Term
US Military
Veterans Start Over as Colleges Ignore Experience
Army Medic-Training Home Fending Off Texas Sprawl
4 US Soldiers Killed in Copter Crash in Colorado
 
Columnists

Justin Raimondo
8/21/2009
War? What War?

Philip Giraldi
8/20/2009
Vanishing Liberties

Nebojsa Malic
8/19/2009
A Balkans Belgium?

Kelley B. Vlahos
8/18/2009
A Primer for the Neo-Patriots

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

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

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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