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Updated December 9, 2014 - 11:19 PM EST
US Expects Blowback as Torture Report Released
 
  Senate Report on CIA Torture: Full Redacted Text
  17 Disgraceful Facts Buried in the Senate's 600 Page Torture Report
  Thousands of Marines on Alert Ahead of Release of Torture Report
Defying US, Iraq Plans Winter Offensive in Mosul
 
  Rivalries Resurface in Iraqi Town Recaptured From ISIS
  In Iraq to Fight ISIS, Iran General Violating UN Travel Ban
  Officials: ISIS Executes 19 Tribesmen Near Kirkuk
Obama Extends NSA Spying Powers Yet Again
 
  Bill Challenging Official Secrecy Passed After Senator's About-Face
US Not Considering Sanctions Against Israel
 
  Russia Demands Israel Explain Weekend Attack on Syria
Massive Spending Bill Hits Snag as Deadline Draws Near
US Won't Review Policy After Getting Hostages Killed in Raid
US, UK Face Pressure to Reduce Nuclear Arms in Vienna
Afghan War Continues, Despite NATO's 'Ceremonial End'
Viewpoints
The Failure of Counterinsurgency: Afghanistan  by Ivan Eland
'Dead Bodies and Wasted Money': How I Learned Firsthand the Worst Lesson of War  by Michael Carson
Why Is Israel Preventing Rights Experts From Entering Gaza?  by Amira Hass
A Russophobic Rant From Congress  by Patrick J. Buchanan
Ukraine's Made-in-USA Finance Minister  by Robert Parry
Forget North Korea – the Real Rogue Cyber Operator Lies Much Closer to Home  by John Naughton

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Frontline
Experts: Nuclear War Risks Rise Due to Global Tensions and Insecure Stockpiles
Feds: Nuke Site Cleanup Request Is Too Expensive
Three US Teens, Recruited Online, Are Caught 'Trying to Join ISIS'
20 Australians Die Fighting for ISIS Groups: AG
Who Are East Jerusalem's 'Permanent Residents'?
 
CIA Torture Report
5 Questions on CIA Torture Report You Wish You Didn't Have to Ask
Military Braces for Possible ISIS Backlash Over CIA Torture Report
UK Among US Allies Fearing Revelations Over Role in CIA Rendition Program
US Embassies Brace for Backlash Over CIA Torture Report
Dismissing Senate Report, Cheney Defends CIA Interrogations
Pakistan/India/Kashmir
Pakistan Says No Hand in Kashmir Attacks
Terrorist Leader Killed in Pakistan Had South Florida Background
Tight Security for India PM Narendra Modi's Kashmir Rally
Twitter Suspends Account of Man Accused of Orchestrating Mumbai Terror Attack
Asia
Hong Kong Court Orders 'Umbrella Movement' Protest Sites to Be Cleared
8 Sentenced to Death for Attacks in Western China
Indonesia Security Forces Shoot Violent Papua Protesters, Four Dead
Russia
US Sanctions Aimed at Changing Power, Russian Envoy Says
Russian Liberal TV Channel Forced to Quit Premises
Russia Says Would Accept Money or Warships to Solve Mistral Dispute With France
Ukraine
Ukrainians Go Underground: Families Living in Cellars in Donetsk Abandoned by the Government in Kiev
Canada to Train Ukrainian Military Police
Russia Says Committed to Ukraine Ceasefire Talks This Week
Africa
US: Libya Peace Talks May Be Doomed by Meddling Powers
Kenyan Counter-Terrorism Police Admit to Extrajudicial Killings
Nigeria Releases Aircraft Carrying French Choppers
Canada Closes Cairo Embassy Over Security Fears
Americas
Indigenous Leader Says Activist Killed in Ecuador
Amazon Indians Report More Death Threats After Activists Slain
 
Iraq
125 Killed and 57 Wounded in Iraq as Kurds and Arabs Seek Control of Eastern Towns
US Says Allies to Send About 1,500 Troops to Iraq
Fears of Arab Refugees Changing Kirkuk's Population Balance
Clint Eastwood: 'I Was Against Going Into the War in Iraq'
ISIS Beheads 4 Christian Children in Iraq for Refusing to Convert to Islam, Claims 'Vicar of Baghdad'
Syria
Syria and Allies Call for UN Sanctions on Israel Over Alleged Strikes
Rich Countries Urged to Take 5 Percent of Syrian Refugees
Syrian Refugees in Lebanon Stranded by UN Food Aid Cut
Palestine/Israel
Palestinians Become Observers at ICC Meeting
Knesset Votes to Dissolve, Sets New Elections for March 17
Poll: Joint Livni-Herzog List Could Beat Out Likud
Israelis Show Little Enthusiasm for Early Elections
Haredi Party Doesn't Rule Out Joining Labor Coalition
Does Netanyahu Belong to the Same Club as Putin, Erdogan, and Sissi?
Yemen
Ambassador Says US Didn't Know About Talks to Free Hostage Killed During Yemen Raid
Yemen Hostage Rescue: US 'Won't Review' Raids Policy
Yemen al-Qaeda Leader Criticizes ISIS Beheadings as Un-Islamic
Middle East
Bomb Wounds Lebanese Man in Border Town: Official
Police Killed by Home-Made Bomb in Bahrain
Jordan Charges Top Brotherhood Figure Over Anti-UAE Comments
Britain
US Believed FBI Mole Passed Secrets to IRA in Thatcher Murder Plot, Files Reveal
Daniel Ellsberg and John Cusack Visits Assange in Embassy
Europe
Churches Criticize German Arms Shipments
Greek Police Investigate Beating of Handcuffed Protester
 
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Columnists

Justin Raimondo
12/08/2014
Pearl Harbor and the Engineers of War

Ivan Eland
12/09/2014
The Failure of Counterinsurgency: Afghanistan

Nebojsa Malic
12/06/2014
South Stream Blues

Lucy Steigerwald
12/04/2014
The Failure of Police Reform

David R. Henderson
9/18/2014
Richard Epstein's Faulty Case for Intervention

Ran HaCohen
8/02/2014
Yet Another War of Deceit
Additional Contributors
Ehsan Ahrari
Uri Avnery
Matthew Barganier
Alan Bock
Patrick J. Buchanan
Juan Cole
Jonathan Cook
Tom Engelhardt
Joshua Frank
Aaron Glantz
Leon Hadar
Jorge Hirsch
Scott Horton
Jeff Huber
Dahr Jamail
Kathy Kelly
William S. Lind
Jim Lobe
Sascha Matuszak
Ray McGovern
Thomas Gale Moore
Brendan O'Neill
Rep. Ron Paul
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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