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Obama: Continued West Bank Settlements Not Legitimate    Afghan War Driving Obama's Approval Down    Alerts Across US Intensify in Terror Probe    Britain Sending Mixed Signals on Afghan Escalation    Israeli MPs Call for West Bank Settlement Expansion    Obama Under Growing Pressure to Add More Troops in Afghanistan    Gen. McChrystal: Pakistani Govt Aiding Taliban    Karzai Embraces Call for Further US Escalation    As Expected, Divisions Linger After Tripartite Summit    Obama's Task: Persuading Allies to Stay in Afghanistan    US Afghan Campaign Plan Says Key Groups Back Taliban    McChrystal's Conundrum    Bill Clinton Says US Must Approach Iran Carefully    Zelaya's Daring Return Reignites Honduras Crisis    Dem to White House: Keep Focus on Afghanistan    Frustration Over Obama's Afghanistan War Policy    Al-Qaeda Releases New 9/11 Video Showing Zawahri    Mitchell: Israeli Settlement Freeze 'Not Essential'    US Embassy in Dubai 'is a Recruiting Ground for Iranian Spies'    Huge Crowds Mourn Italians Killed in Afghanistan: 'How Many Deaths More?'    Two NATO Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan    US Pushing Beyond Settlement Freeze    9/11 Trial At Guantánamo Delayed Again    German Peace Movement Demands Withdrawal From Afghanistan     Last Exit Before Quagmire    Obama Needs to Expand on His Good Instincts in Foreign Policy    The Hard and Bitter Truth    West Bank Settlement Lays Groundwork for New Neighborhood    FBI May Have Destroyed Files on Walter Cronkite    With Missile Shield Change, National Interests Get a Leg Up on the Military-Industrial Complex    More Than a Numbers Game in Afghanistan    Entangled Giant    
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News
Updated September 23, 2009 - 11:29 PM EDT
Afghan War Driving Obama's Approval Down
Karzai Embraces Call for Further US Escalation
 
  Obama Under Growing Pressure to Add More Troops in Afghanistan
  Gen. McChrystal: Pakistani Govt Aiding Taliban
  US Afghan Plan Says Key Groups Back Taliban
  Britain Sending Mixed Signals on Afghan Escalation
  Top Dem Wants Afghan Escalation
Obama: Continued Settlements 'Illegitimate'
 
  As Expected, Splits Linger After Mideast Summit
  Israeli MPs Call for West Bank Settlement Expansion
  Mitchell: Israeli Settlement Freeze 'Not Essential'
Ahmadinejad: Iran Is an Opportunity for US
 
  US Embassy in Dubai 'Is a Recruiting Ground for Iranian Spies'
'No Credible Threat,' But Flurry of Terror Alerts
 
  Using Queens Imam in Terror Inquiry Backfired on New York Police
Viewpoints
Entangled Giant  by Garry Wills
With Missile Shield Change, National Interests Get a Leg Up on the Military-Industrial Complex  by Leon T. Hadar
German Peace Movement Demands Withdrawal From Afghanistan  by Reiner Braun
Last Exit Before Quagmire
by William S. Lind
9/11 Trial at Guantánamo Delayed Again  by Andy Worthington
More Than a Numbers Game in Afghanistan  by Eugene Robinson

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Frontline
US Pushing Beyond Settlement Freeze

At UN, Views on Iran and North Korea Are Divided

UK Plans to Cut Trident Fleet in Nuclear Overture

FBI May Have Destroyed Files on Walter Cronkite
Russia, Plagued by Heroin Use, to Press US on Destroying Afghan Poppy Crops

Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine
 
Iraq
Maliki Says Arab Efforts to Patch Up Differences With Syria Did Not Work

Iraq to Press for Dropping Debt at UN Meeting

Tuesday: 2 Iraqis Wounded
Occupying Iraq

Two US Vehicles Destroyed in Salah al-Din

US Soldier Charged With Murder in Iraq Base Death

Flesh-Eating Bug Nearly Killed British Soldier in Iraq
'War on Terror'

Al-Qaeda Releases New 9/11 Video Showing Zawahri

Al-Qaeda Predicts Obama's Fall by Muslim Nation

NYC Trains Raise Security After Terrorism Warning

Stadiums, Hotels Put on Alert Amid Terror Probe
Iran

Bill Clinton Says US Must Approach Iran Carefully

Ahmadinejad Warns Against Military Attack on Iran
Ahmadinejad Describes Foreign Forces in Region as an Affront to Sovereignty

Japan FM: Iran Says Wants Abolition of Nuclear Weapons

Iranian Leader Says He'll Seek Leniency for American Hikers

Family Holds Out Hope for Hikers Detained in Iran
Asia

Mystery of China VP's Military Appointment Deepens

China Bans Foreign Tourists From Tibet

Policy Center Urges Deeper US-China Relationship

US Looks to China for North Korea Progress

Thai Leader Says US Moving Toward Engaging Myanmar
Honduras

Honduran Troops Rout Zelaya Supporters Outside Embassy

US Pledges to Help Besieged Brazil Embassy in Honduras

Zelaya's Daring Return Reignites Honduras Crisis

Honduras in Lockdown After Ousted President's Return

Mystery in Honduran Leader's Return
 
Afghanistan

Obama's Task: Persuading Allies to Stay in Afghanistan

At Pentagon's Request, Post Delayed Story on General's Afghanistan Report

Frustration Over Obama's Afghanistan War Policy
Bill Clinton: Obama Should Think Through Afghanistan Escalation
In McChrystal's Grim Assessment of Afghanistan, a Catalyst for Obama

Afghan Officials Live in Fear of Taliban Assassins

Two NATO Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan
Investigation After Danish Soldier Publishes Afghan War Book
Pakistan

Holbrooke Holds Meeting With Pakistan's President Zardari

Girls School Attacked in Troubled NW Pakistan
In Swat Valley, a Bittersweet Eid
Israel/Palestine
The Gaza War 'Victory' - Has Israel Grown Dependent on Terror?

Israel Presses EU to Condemn Gaza Report

How Israel Silenced Its Gaza War Protesters

Peres: Netanyahu Will 'Repay' Ahmadinejad
Israeli MPs Press for Massive Expansion of West Bank Settlements to 'Demonstrate Our Ownership'
West Bank Settlement Lays Groundwork for New Neighborhood
Report: Haniyeh Says Hamas Will Support Palestinian State Within '67 Border

Israeli Troops Shoot Dead Palestinian Motorist
Yemen

US Calls for Ceasefire in Yemen

Yemen Army Says 76 Rebels Killed in Saada Skirmishes

Rebels Want Independently Monitored Yemen Ceasefire
Africa

Somalia's Shabaab Proclaim Allegiance to bin Laden
Nigerian Police Defend Summary Execution of Boko Haram Leader

US Embassy in South Africa Closes for Security
 
Columnists

Justin Raimondo
9/23/2009
McChrystal's Conundrum

Ivan Eland
9/23/2009
Obama Needs to Expand on His Good Instincts in Foreign Policy

Kelley B. Vlahos
9/22/2009
GOP Rep. Still Doing Penance for War Vote

Charles V. Peña
9/18/2009
Lessons of 9/11 Still Unlearned

Philip Giraldi
9/17/2009
War Without End

Nebojsa Malic
9/11/2009
Empire's War of Terror

David R. Henderson
9/07/2009
An Evening With Cindy Sheehan

Ran HaCohen
7/20/2009
Fascism Needs an Enemy

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

Edouard Husson
5/22/2009
The Virtues of Gorbachevism
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Matthew Barganier
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Juan Cole
Jonathan Cook
Christopher Deliso
Sibel Edmonds
Tom Engelhardt
Mike Ewens
Joshua Frank
Aaron Glantz
Leon Hadar
Jorge Hirsch
Scott Horton
Jeff Huber
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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