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Today's Highlights

Torture – Yes We Can?: Justin Raimondo
Obama Takes Charge: Time to Leave Iraq: Bandow
The North Korean Conundrum: Feffer/Engelhardt
Recruiters Losing the Battle at Home: Kelley Vlahos
The Danger of Keeping Robert Gates by Robert Parry

 
 Philip Hammond

Stay Out of Darfur!

 Gareth Porter

Iranian 'Smoking Laptop' Documents Forged

 Michael Scheuer

Still Marching Toward Hell

 Woody Powell

The Virtues of Peace
Experts Warn Obama Threats Won't Work on Iran    Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State?    Korea Tensions Rise With Seditious Balloons    Gates Hits Out at Russian Missile Deployment    CIA Warns of Growing al-Qaeda Influence    Obama in Indirect Contact With Gates About Staying    Iraqi Shi'ite Leader Breaks With Govt, Urges Passage of US Deal    CIA Chief: Iraq Not Main Front in Terror War    US Envoy: Obama and Bush Are Not So Far Apart on Foreign Policy    World Leaders Quick to Press Obama on Policy    The Conservative Malaise    Barack Obama Takes Charge: Time to Leave Iraq    The North Korean Conundrum    India-Pakistan Rapprochement Unlikely Obama Priority    100 Countries to Destroy Cluster Bomb Stocks; But Not US, Israel, China, Russia, India, nor Pakistan    Russia: US Media Finally Got Georgia Story Right    UK May Send 2,000 More Troops to Afghanistan    Islamists Continue Advance Through Somalia    Medvedev: No Missile Deployment if Obama Drops Anti-Missile Shield    Torture – Yes We Can?    Foreign Reporters Furious Over Gaza Ban    With Iran, Obama Needs More Carrot, Less Stick    Obama Risks Trap With Ahmadinejad Letter, Analysts Warn    World Powers Discuss Iran, No Breakthrough Seen    Bulgaria to Pull Troops From Iraq at End of Year    Pakistan Supply Line Attacks Show US Vulnerability    At Least 21 Killed in Afghan Suicide Bombing    Recruiters Losing the Battle at Home    The Danger of Keeping Robert Gates    Pakistan Leader Meets With Rice on Missile Strikes    Isolated North Korea Tightens Borders    In India, a World of Hurt Over a Perceived Obama Slight    Self-Evident Truths    Why Did the West Ignore the Truth About the War in Georgia?    
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News
Updated November 14, 2008 - 1:06 AM EST
Obama in Contact With Gates About Staying
 
  World Leaders Quick to Press Obama on Policy
  US Envoy: Obama and Bush Are Not So Far Apart on Foreign Policy
CIA Warns of Growing al-Qaeda Influence
 
  CIA Chief: Iraq Not Main Front in Terror War
Gates Hits Out at Russian Missile Deployment
 
  Medvedev: No Missile Deployment if Obama Drops Anti-Missile Shield
Pakistan Supply Attacks Show US Vulnerability
 
  20 Afghans, 1 GI Killed in Blast Near Pakistan Border
Experts Warn Obama Threats Won’t Work on Iran
 
  Obama Risks Trap With Ahmadinejad Letter, Analysts Warn
  World Powers Discuss Iran, No Breakthrough Seen
Korea Tensions Rise With Seditious Balloons
Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State?
Viewpoints
With Iran, Obama Needs More Carrot, Less Stick  by Scott Ritter
Recruiters Losing the Battle at Home  by Kelley Vlahos
Why Did the West Ignore the Truth About the War in Georgia?  by Mary Dejevsky
The North Korean Conundrum
by John Feffer and Tom Engelhardt
The Conservative Malaise
by Jacob G. Hornberger
Self-Evident Truths  The Guardian (UK)

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Frontline
October Budget Deficit Hits Record of $237.2 Billion
Iraqi Shi'ite Leader Breaks With Govt, Urges Passage of US Deal
Civilian Cargo Plane Crashes in Iraq, Killing Seven
Iraq Politicians Criticize PM's Nobel Nomination
Sahwa Councils Could Stir Sedition, Says Key Legislator
100 Countries to Destroy Cluster Bomb Stocks; But Not US, Israel, China, Russia, India, nor Pakistan
 
Isolated North Korea Tightens Borders
Iraq Occupation
Bulgaria to Pull Troops From Iraq at End of Year
US: Iraqi Soldier Who Shot US Troops May Have Been al-Qaeda
US Soldier Finds His Voice Blogging From Iraq
Today in Iraq
Militants Turn to Small Bombs in Iraq Attacks
Maliki Leads Seven Parties Alliance in Provincial Elections
Iraqi Army Begins Demolishing Baghdad Squatter Camp
Iraq Hopes for Deal With Kuwait on Gulf War Reparations
Electricity Falls Short of Iraq's Needs
Iraqis Measure Progress With Flip of Switch
Car Bomb Injures 17 East of Mosul
Thursday: One US Soldier, 12 Iraqis Killed; 40 Iraqis Wounded
US Military
Air Force Scales Back Cyberwar Plans
Military Seeks Veterans for 'Wounded Warrior' Aid
'War on Terror'
Bin Laden Alive, Worried About 'Own Securitym,' Says CIA Chief
Agency: Terror Threat Against Denmark Considerable
Researchers Urge Obama to Set Up Guantanamo Review
Muslim Nations Attempt to Clear Islam's Association With Terrorism
Gaza Lockdown
Foreign Reporters Furious Over Gaza Ban
Israel Blocks Gaza Food Aid After Rocket Attacks
UN Agency Says Runs Out of Gaza Food Supplies
Voices: Gaza Closure and Shortages
Israel to Keep Gaza Sealed Over Terror Warning
Israel to Hamas: We Don't Want Escalation in Gaza
Israel/Palestine
Israel Insists Cease-Fire Can Hold
Switzerland Says Israel Breaking International Law
Hamas Ready to Resume Unity Talks if Supporters Freed
Israel Not Counting on Obama in Peace Talks: Livni
Settlers Who Long to Leave the West Bank
Meet the Palestinian Seinfeld. Who Knew?
Middle East
US Official Visited Beirut to Push Missile Ban
Some Detained Yemenis Guilty, Some Aren't, Attorneys Say
Iran Accuses Israel of Abusing UN Interfaith Meeting
DR Congo
Rebels Advance on Congo Town
Britain's Brown Backs Extra UN Troops for Congo
East Congo War Brings Hunger to Breadbasket
Aid Workers to Relocate Congo Frontline Refugees
Rebels Press Young Men to Join Fight in Congo
Children Separated From Parents by Congo Violence
Africa
Germany Extends Africa Naval Mission
France Says Not Swayed by Sudan Ceasefire Call
Mugabe Set to Form Zimbabwe Govt: Minister
Eleven Killed in Ambush in Central African Republic
 
Afghanistan
UK May Send 2,000 More Troops to Afghanistan
Two British Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan
Sweden to Send More Troops to Afghanistan
Taliban Urge World to Block Afghan Executions
Iraq Model Not Good Fit for Afghan War: US Official
Pakistan
Pakistan Leader Meets With Rice on Missile Strikes
Pakistan FM: Terror War Cost Country $34.5 Billion
Taliban Bring New Fear to Peshawar
Two Taliban Killed in Swat Valley
Iranian Envoy Abducted in Pakistan
Pakistan's Leader Backs Moderate Islam
Obama & India/Pakistan
In India, a World of Hurt Over a Perceived Obama Slight
Pakistan Not Averse to Obama Settling Kashmir Dispute
India-Pakistan Rapprochement Unlikely Obama Priority
India/Kashmir
India Terror Arrests Shock Nation Ahead of Elections
Polls Offer Litmus Test for Indian Govt
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Captures Rebel Villages
Sri Lanka Can Defeat Tigers, Top Ex-Rebel Says
Koreas
North Korea Jostles to Get Obama to Notice
South Korea to Press for Sampling at North Korea Nuke Plants
North Korea Hits Back at Balloon Activism From South
Q&A: Why Is North Korea Getting So Angry?
China
China Agrees to Loosen Controls on News Providers
China Democracy Activist Detained for Subversion
Myanmar
In Myanmar, Business Ventures Start With Military

13 More Myanmar Dissidents Get Prison Sentences
Thailand
Blast Wounds 13 Protesting Bangkok Market Vendors
Georgia-Russia
Report: Sarkozy Kept Putin Away From Saakashvili's Testicles
US Studies Another Path for Georgia to Join NATO
Russia: US Media Finally Got Georgia Story Right
Russia, Ukraine Spar Over Georgia War Film
Russia-US
US Hoping for Missile Defense Talks in Moscow
Medvedev Seeks Fresh Start in Russia-US Ties
US Criticized Russia Energy Projects
Somalia
Islamists Continue Advance Through Somalia
Somali Islamists Declare Sharia Law After Taking Town
Islamist Rebels Briefly Take Three Other Somali Towns
Americas
El Salvador Massacre Case Filed in Spanish Court
British Company Develops Former US Base in Panama
 
Columnists

Justin Raimondo
11/14/2008
Torture – Yes We Can?

Doug Bandow
11/14/2008
Barack Obama Takes Charge: Time to Leave Iraq

Alan Bock
11/12/2008
A Short Honeymoon

David R. Henderson
11/11/2008
A Veterans Day Tribute

Sascha Matuszak
11/10/2008
Business Over Bluster

Ivan Eland
11/08/2008
Good Bye Neoconservatives. Hello to Their Liberal Brethren?

Ran HaCohen
11/07/2008
Black Israeli Voices on Obama's Victory

Nebojsa Malic
11/06/2008
Obama's Choice

Philip Giraldi
11/04/2008
Obama's Neocon in Residence

Charles Peña
10/29/2008
You Can't Cut Spending
and Spare 'Defense'

Praful Bidwai
9/05/2008
Lawmaker's Disclosure May Torpedo Nuke Deal

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