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NY judge: NSA can refuse to discuss wiretapping
WASHINGTON (AP) | The National Security Agency does not need to tell lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainees whether their...
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$2 billion in U.S. aid to Pakistan questioned
By Greg Miller | WASHINGTON — The United States has paid more than $5 billion to reimburse Pakistan for counter-terrorism...
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Iraq authorities say U.S. soldiers killed 9 civilians
By Doug Smith | BAGHDAD — Nine Iraqi civilians were killed Wednesday in two armed clashes involving U.S. soldiers,...
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Oh! What a Lovely (drugs) War
By Ron F | According to UN figures, in the 2000 growing season opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan covered 82,000 hectares....
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Zimbabwe and the Question of Imperialism
Democracy Now! | Listen to the Interview Audio stream Download mp3 Criticism of Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe...
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Bush administration lifts North Korea sanctions
Bush administration lifts sanctions, moves to take North Korea off terrorist list. President Bush said Thursday he will lift...
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Exposed: the arms lobbyist in Parliament
By James Macintyre | A senior arms lobbyist is gaining access to ministers, MPs and peers inside Parliament using a research...
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Gitmo Detainee’s Lawyer ‘Not Allowed To Tell Him’ He’s No Longer An ‘Enemy Combatant’
Think Progress | Nearly two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that detainees held at Guantánamo Bay have the right...
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Kucinich: We went to Iraq for oil
Press TV | Rep. Dennis Kucinich has accused the US of forcing Iraq to privatize its oil fields and keeping US troops at war...
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Five Myths About the New Wiretapping Law
By Patrick Radden Keefe | Sometime today, the Senate is likely to approve the most comprehensive overhaul of American surveillance...
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How the Pentagon Turned an Interrogation Resistance Program into a Blueprint for Torture
By Spencer Ackerman | In August 2004, a Defense Dept. panel convened to investigate detainee abuse after the Abu Ghraib scandal...
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UK uses lung-shredder to kill rebels
Quqnoos | BRITISH troops have used missiles in Afghanistan which suck the air out of human targets, shred their internal...
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A Tragedy Unnoticed By The World
How conflict exacerbates Somalia’s starvation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says thousands of Somalis are malnourished...
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Fortress Britain
By Muhammad Idrees Ahmad | “The public has to be more alert”, warned one “international terrorism expert” in the...
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Report: Iraq social and refugee crisis is worsening
By Sandy English | According to a report issued last week by the human rights organization Amnesty International, the plight...
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New technique can detect biological, chemical and explosive agents
By Steve Wampler | LIVERMORE, Calif. — Airplane passengers and baggage might be screened one day by a machine under development...
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American Envoy Is Linked to Arms Deal Cover-Up
By ERIC SCHMITT | WASHINGTON — An American ambassador helped cover up the illegal Chinese origins of ammunition that a...
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Big Oil’s Big Lie
By George Monbiot | Of course, it’s not a crime, and it’s hard to see how, in a free society, it could or should become...
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Mind-Forged Manacles
By George Monbiot | Which of these countries has the most prisoners per head of population? Sudan, Syria, China, Burma, Saudi...
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“Blood and Oil” an Important Film to See and Share
ADS | “Blood and Oil” is a very, very well made film that will show you something new even if you already know...
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Blackwater, skirting federal law, using cache of AK-47s
By Joseph Neff | The private military company Blackwater has found an unusual way to skirt federal laws that prohibit private...
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Government Study Criticizes Bush Administration’s Measures of Progress in Iraq
By JAMES GLANZ, New York Times | Beyond the declines in overall violence in Iraq, several crucial measures the Bush administration...
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Facing the Truth About the American Voter
Rick Shenkman, is the author of the just-published Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth About the American Voter (Basic...
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US to carry on military trials at Gitmo despite ruling
Hearings for terrorism suspects before US military tribunals in Guantanamo Bay are going ahead despite a Supreme Court ruling...
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ONE IN FOUR AMERICANS CALL THEIR WORKPLACE A DICTATORSHIP
Zogby | UTICA, New York – One out of every four working Americans (25%) describes their workplace as a dictatorship,...




