Is an Anti-US Fatwa in the Works?

That possibility has been brought up by a close aide to the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani: KUWAIT, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Iraq's most revered Shi'ite cleric could issue an edict that would ban Iraqis backing a U.S.-appointed council and spark mass protests if Washington...

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Bill Evers Goes Neocon

It’s funny, but Bill Evers used to be one of those libertarians who went around giving everyone else a purity test, and he often found them wanting. Back in the good old days, he used to write a column for Libertarian Vanguard, the newspaper of the Radical Caucus,...

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Mayonnaise of Mass Destruction

A Halliburton whistleblower gets fired for trying to spare American soldiers from food poisoning. Don't read this just before eating. On July, 17, 2003, Heather Yarbrough flew to Kuwait to start a new job: monitoring the quality and safety of food served to soldiers...

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Calling David Brooks!

From The Jewish Week: President George W. Bush will do better among Jewish voters in November than he did in 2000, even though Jews are much less supportive of his Iraq and anti-terror policies than other Americans. And former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, who hopes to be...

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Jack and the phantom journal

USA Today's star foreign correspondent, Jack Kelley, landed in hot water over fabricating a story about a journal purporting to "prove" Serbs were "ethnically cleansing" Kosovo. After an internal investigation, Kelley resigned from the paper. Case closed? Hardly. The...

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The Forgotten Victims: Iraqi Palestinians

While all Iraqis are suffering as a result of this totally unnecessary war, Iraqis of Palestinian descent are perhaps worse off than most of their countrymen. Jo Wilding gives a brief first-hand account of what their lives are like now: She lives in a tent with UNHCR...

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Fighting on the Frontier: Pakistan-Afghanistan

Victoria Schofield, a specialist on South Asia, is the author of "Afghan Frontier: Feuding and Fighting in Central Asia." In this commentary for the Daily Star (Lebanon), she discusses the tense and dangerous border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan and how it has...

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