Highlights

Of Cabbages and Kings: William S. Lind
Seeds of Terror in Our Backyard: D. Arguelles
Bolton Would Shatter Intel Morale: Ray McGovern
Give Rumsfeld the Pinochet Treatment: Jim Lobe
US Arms Dictators: Thalif Deen

 
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News
Updated May 26, 2005 - 11:29 PM EDT
House Kills First Vote on Iraq Withdrawal
US Chopper Downed in Iraq

Democrats Win Crucial Bolton Vote Delay

Iraqi Troops to Lock Down Baghdad

Europeans Win Iran Nuclear-Freeze Vow

FBI Papers Detail Koran Allegations

Bush Pledges $50 Million to Palestinian Authority
US, Iraq May Release Members of Saddam's Govt
Viewpoints
Seeds of Terrorism in Our Own Backyard  by Dennis G. Arguelles
The Tillman Scandal: Newsweek Error Bad, Pentagon Lying Ok?
by Greg Mitchell
Uzbekistan's Economic Revolution
by Loretta Napoleoni
Of Cabbages and Kings
by William S. Lind
Iraq: How We Were Duped
by Gary Hughes
When Silence Becomes Betrayal
by Jay Shaft

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Frontline

Rumsfeld Laments Global Reach of News in Wartime

Iraq Official: Militant Leader Zarqawi Definitely Wounded

Rights Groups Assail US Govt Torture Report

US Ramps Up Arms Supplies to Repressive Regimes

US Military Aid and Arms Transfers Since 9/11

Mexico: If Posada Returns, He'll Be Sent to Venezuela

Zarqawi Men Nabbed in Iraq

Amnesty: Give Rumsfeld the Pinochet Treatment

 

Anti-Military Recruiting Campaigns Heats Up at Seattle Schools

Occupying Iraq

UK to Send 400 More Troops to Iraq

Greece to Help in NATO Equipment Transport for Iraq

US Official Defends Rebuilding Work in Iraq

Russia Backs Off From Call for Foreign Troops to Leave Iraq

Iraq Today

Lights Go Out During Iraqi Troop Ceremony

Shi'ite Zone in Iraq May Be Precursor to Separation

Iraqi MPs Agree on Sunni Role in Constitution Drafting

Baghdad's Polluted Water Makes Children Sick With Cholera

Thinktank: At Least Five Years Before Iraqi Govt Can Impose Order

Iraq Denies Execution of Saudi Prisoners

Capital Punishment Returns to Iraq

Iraq's 'Devil-Worshippers' Seek Constitutional Rights

The War Goes On

1,000 US Troops Launch New Offensive in Western Iraq

US, Iraqi Forces Kill 10 Insurgents

Syria Told to Stem Flow of Fighters to Iraq

Gunmen Kill Police Chief of Northern Iraqi Town

Zarqawi

Zarqawi Reportedly Evacuated From Iraq

Zarqawi's Group 'Mulls New Leader'

Jordan Following Zarqawi Reports

Hostages of War

Illinois Man Taken Hostage in Iraq

Muslim Cleric Offers to Take Place of Aussie Hostage in Iraq

Japanese Media Glorifies Iraq Hostage

Italy Criticizes Afghan Handling of Hostage Negotiations

Uzbekistan

China Welcomes Embattled Uzbek President

China Agrees to $600 Million Uzbek Oil Deal

Uzbekistan Rejects UN Calls for Andijan Probe

Analysts: Secular Tyranny or Theocracy Uzbekistan's Only Choices

Uzbeks Used UK Trucks for Massacre

Palestine

Hamas Moves Toward Legitimacy

Abbas Visit: What's at Stake?

Abbas Departs for US Dogged by Domestic Ills, Peace Impasse

Egypt Steps in to Help Defuse Fatah-Hamas Strife

US PR Blitz Aimed at Palestinians

Rice: US Committed to 'Contiguous' Palestine

Bush Plans More Aid to Palestinians

Sources: Bush Won't Pressure PA on Armed Groups Until Elections

Israel

AIPAC Approves of Sharon's Gaza Plan

Israel to Call Up 8,000 Reservists to Help Evict Settlers

Sharon Rules Out Return of Palestinian Refugees

Egypt

Pro-Mubarak Mobs Beat Dissenters on Voting Day

Egypt Holds Referendum, Opposition Urges Boycott

Egypt Referendum Puts Mubarak Reforms to the Test

Crackdown as Egypt Votes on Constitution

Mideast

Hezbollah: All of Northern Israel Is in Range of Our Rockets

Hezbollah Vows to Keep Its Weapons

Syria's Voices of Change

Afghanistan

Karzai Says bin Laden Not in Afghanistan

Karzai Calls for Regional Non-Interference Pact

Mullah Omar: Afghanistan Sold to US

South Asia

South Waziristan Bomb Kills Six

India, Pakistan to Discuss Gas Line From Iran

India Signs Truce Pact With Tribal Rebels

India Wants Troop Levels in Kashmir Glacier Frozen

Pakistan Wants 75 New US F-16 Warplanes

Moderate Kashmiri Separatists to Meet in Pakistan

Nepalese Maoist Leader Conspires With Indian Communists

Nepalese Blogs Cut Through Censorship

Russia

Russia Has No Plans for Nuclear Weapons in Space: Top Commander

Africa

Burundi Army to Relaunch Attacks on Rebels

Ivorian Militias to Be Disbanded

 
America's Gulags

Amnesty Takes Aim at 'Gulag' in Guantánamo

ACLU Report of Gitmo Abuse

US Slams Amnesty Criticism

What Really Happened at Guantanamo Bay?

US Terror Laws 'Creating a New Generation of the Disappeared'

Abuse, Torture, Murder

CIA Operative Testifies He Saw SEAL Beating Iraqi Prisoner

Female Staff at Guantánamo Sexually Abused Pakistani Prisoners

Prosecution Spells Out Murder Case Against GI

Soldier Testifies Murdered Iraqi Was Cooperating

Trial Starts in Abu Ghraib Death

US Military

ABC Network Program Nightline to Again Recite Names of War Dead

Analysts Warn of DoD Budget 'Train Wreck'

Guard Scrambles to Fill Ranks

Military Recruitment Faces Challenges in High Schools

Illegal Immigrants Wandering Onto Arizona Army Base 'a Problem'

US Base Closures Cause Jitters Abroad

Life and Death of a Poster Boy

House Budget Proposal Would Bar Euro Defense Consortium From US Defense Contracts

Connecticut Sub Base a 'Minefield' of Pollution

House Drops Bill to Limit Women in Combat

United States

Pentagon Denies Rumsfeld Authorized Downing Cessna

After Talk of Compromise, Panel Is Again Split on PATRIOT Act

Private Flights to Resume at Reagan National Under Strict Limits

Hail Caesar! GOP Tilts Power to President

Elaborate US Pilot Warning System Doesn't Work if There Are Clouds

Terror

US: Central American Alert for al-Qaeda Suspects Was a Misunderstanding

Navy Ships Sail to Disrupt Terrorists at Sea

Thinktank: Nuclear Proliferation Could Give Weapons to Terrorists

Loopholes Seen in US Efforts to Secure Overseas Ports

FBI Official: Buy a Bootleg DVD or Fake Nikes and You Fund Terror

Iran

US Won't Block Iran's WTO Application

Iran Elections Dim Nuclear Talks

Europeans Meet on Iran

Why Iran's Mullahs Are Feeling Lucky

Iran Hopes Cartoons Will Get Out the Vote

Americas

Fujimori the Fugitive – Poised for a Comeback?

Bolivia Military Denies It Is Plotting Coup

Protesters Choke La Paz in Call for Gas Takeover, Secession Preemption

Colombia: Drug-Smuggling US Soldiers Don't End Drug War Cooperation

Locals Terrorized by Colombian Communists

Suriname Vote May Return Ex-Military Ruler

Tragedy Fuels Calls for End to Chile's Compulsory Military Service

Dead Chile Teen Soldiers' Commanders Face Prison

Chávez Faces Claims of Oil Revenue Cover-Up

Spain

ETA Car Bomb Explodes in Madrid; 52 Slightly Hurt

ETA Bomb Greets Zapatero Plea for Peace Talks

European Union

EU Threatened With Collapse as France, Holland Likely to Reject Constitution

French Leftists Prepare to Celebrate Defeat of EU Constitution

French Ruling Party in Disarray as EU Treaty Vote Is Lost

EU Vote Gives Dutch Premier Another Headache

EU Follows US, Moves to Slap Quotas on Pro-Trade China

Croatia Grows Impatient With EU

East Asia

Singapore Tries to Calm the Japan-China Dispute

US and Indonesia to Restore Military Ties

Tri-Nation History Text Aims to Counter Whitewash

Koreas

Top South Korean Officials Heading North

China Warns North Korea Not to Test Nukes

Roh, Bush Won't Discuss Koreas War Scenario

US Halts Missions to Recover Remains in North Korea

 
Contributors


5/25/2005
The Franklin Affair:
A Spreading Treason


5/24/2005
The Harvest of Messianic Foreign Policy: Anti-US Radical Islam


5/20/2005
Looking-Glass Wars


5/19/2005
Back to Kosovo

Ran HaCohen
5/02/2005
The Palestinian Gandhi

Praful Bidwai
4/19/2005
India, Pakistan Take a Big Stride Forward

Sascha Matuszak
4/11/2005
Laowai and Zibenren

Joseph Stromberg
2/07/2005
An Anti-Imperialist's Reading List: Part Two

Matthew Barganier
10/30/2004
Et Tu, Pat?

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