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Highlights
 
Afghanistan Contractors Outnumber Troops    CIA's Ties With Blackwater Run Deep    US Fears Rifts if Afghanistan Vote Goes to Runoff    Reports Revive Debate on Contractor Use    Georgia Seizes Cargo Ships, Presses Naval Blockade on Abkhazia    Sunnis, Shi'ites Trade Blame Over Baghdad Bombings    Iran Offers Nuclear Concessions to IAEA    $2 Trillion Higher Deficit Projected    Calley Apologizes for My Lai Massacre During Vietnam War    No Sign of Voters on Election Day in Afghanistan Despite Official Claims    Lockerbie: Will the Truth Ever Come Out?    In Afghanistan Election, Deciding Who Won Is the Hard Part    The First Israeli Jew in Fatah's Parliament    IAEA Legal Expert Stifles Neocrazies    Ridge: Fellow Cabinet Members Pushed Terror Alerts    Bombers on Bicycles Strike Grozny, Kill 5    Iran Rulers' Move to Tighten Grip Shuts Out Dissenters    US: Iran Still Not Providing Full Cooperation on Nuclear Obligations    Brazil President Urges Obama to Explain Colombian Bases Plan to South Americans    Russia Rebels Claim Dam Surge Part of Economic War    Lesson of Vietnam Lost in Afghanistan    After Rare US Talks, North Korean Diplomats Hit Vegas    Afghanistan's Democratic Debacle    Iranian Cabinet Nominee Wanted in Argentine Attack    Cracks Appear in Mousavi's 'Green Path'    Karzai, Rival Both Declare Victory    The 'Safe Haven' Myth    Fighting Is Said to Kill 22 in Somali Capital    US Drone Strike Kills 12 in North Waziristan    The Afghan Pipe Dream    Withered Garland of War    
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News
Updated August 22, 2009 - 12:23 PM EDT
Afghanistan: Lots of Votes, Not Many Voters
 
  Karzai, Rival Both Declare Victory
  US Fears Rifts if Afghanistan Vote Goes to Runoff
  Obama Lauds Afghan Vote, Warns of More Violence
  Afghanistan Contractors Outnumber Troops
Iran Offers Nuclear Concessions to IAEA
 
  US: Iran Still Not Providing Full Cooperation on Nuclear Obligations
  Cracks Appear in Mousavi's 'Green Path'
  Iran Rulers' Move to Tighten Grip Shuts Out Dissenters
  Iranian Cabinet Nominee Wanted in Argentine Attack
Iraq Sunnis, Shi'ites Trade Blame Over Bombings
 
  Bombings Interrupt Baghdad's Summer of Optimism
Georgia Seizes Ships, Presses Naval Blockade on Abkhazia
 
  Russia Rebels Claim Dam Surge Part of Economic War
  Bombers on Bicycles Strike Grozny, Kill 5
CIA’s Ties With Blackwater Run Deep
Where’s the Coverage of Cindy Sheehan?
Viewpoints
Lockerbie: Will the Truth Ever Come Out?  by Paddy McGuffin
Lesson of Vietnam Lost in Afghanistan  by Stanley Kutler
The First Israeli Jew in Fatah's Parliament  by Jonathan Cook
The 'Safe Haven' Myth  by Stephen M. Walt
IAEA Legal Expert Stifles Neocrazies  by Gordon Prather
The Afghan Pipe Dream  by Pepe Escobar

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Frontline
US Urged Not to Send Gitmo Prisoner to Bosnia
Behind Hamas' Own War on Terror
Reports Revive Debate on Contractor Use
After Rare US Talks, North Korean Diplomats Hit Vegas
4 American Troops in Iraq Charged With Cruelty
Fighting Is Said to Kill 22 in Somali Capital
$2 Trillion Higher Deficit Projected
Ridge: Fellow Cabinet Members Pushed Terror Alerts
 
Iraq
Iraqi Lawmakers Seek Review of Security Forces
Ramadi Struggles to Instill a Rule of Law
Peshmerga Member Found Dead East of Mosul
Baghdad's Sole Traffic Lights: Struggle for Normality
Lawyers Fear for Baghdad Accused
2 Killed in Baghdad Truck Bombing
Friday: 10 Iraqis Killed, 36 Wounded
Israel and 'Friends'
Swedish FM Insists Neither He nor Sweden Are Anti-Semites
Swedish FM Declines to Condemn Paper, Citing Press Freedom
Report: Israel Threatens to Delay Swedish FM's Visit Over Newspaper Article
Germany Calls for Israel to Take Urgent Action on Settlements
Case Against Settlers Who Beat Palestinians Closed
Yemen
Over 100,000 People Displaced by Yemen Fighting: UN
'War on Terror'
Obama: Lockerbie Bomber's Welcome Highly Objectionable
Libya Keeps Lockerbie Bomber Under Wraps
Fla. Man Acquitted of Terrorism Won't Be Deported
Australia Lists Somalia's al-Shabab as Terrorists
Fiji
Fiji Junta Decides Methodists Are Subversives
Weekend Reviews
In Wilson's Wake
Splendor on the Grass
Withered Garland of War
Cover-up: A Film's Travesty of Omissions
Bases of Empire
Getting Away With Torture
The Pure Horror of Hiroshima
 
Afghanistan
In Afghanistan Election, Deciding Who Won Is the Hard Part
Don't Claim Victory Yet, EU Tells Afghan Candidates
Taliban Diversify Into Tobacco
Two British Soldiers Killed on Afghan Election Day
21-Year-Old Navajo Soldier Dies in Afghanistan
Pakistan
US Drone Strike Kills 12 in North Waziristan
US Targets Taliban Leader in Latest Missile Strike
Kidnapped French Tourist Freed in SW Pakistan
Zardari: Military Operation to Continue

Pakistan Leader Backs China Over Xinjiang
India
Despite Vows to Bolster Defenses, India Remains Vulnerable
Koreas
North Koreans Pay Respects to Kim Dae-Jung
North, South Koreans to Talk During Trip to Seoul
US Monitoring Myanmar on North Korea Sanctions: Envoy
North Korea Scholar Draws Criticism, Praise
Philippines
Philippine Police Arrest Alleged Terror Leader
Europe
Russian Court Arrests Suspected Ship Hijackers
France Seizes Two ETA Weapons Caches
Slovakia Blocks Hungarian President's Visit
Americas
Brazil Leader Urges Obama to Explain Colombian Bases Plan
Nicaraguan Still Feeling Aftershocks of Honduran Coup
Would-Be Zelaya Successor Is Honduras Coup's Other Victim
Maine Woman Wins $21m in Lawsuit Against Cuba
United Nations Hails Security Gains in Haiti
 
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. Peña
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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