Today's Highlights

The 'Real' McCain: Justin Raimondo
Chinese Puzzles: Alan Bock
Bush's 'Lucid Dreams' Become Nightmares: L. Hadar
Rumsfeld's Deal With Saddam: Norman Solomon
Fundamentalists Terrorize Iraqis: Dahr Jamail
 
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News
Updated December 9, 2005 - 10:52 PM EST

Congress Torn Over Iraq Endgame
Lieberman Set to Replace Rumsfeld?

Al-Qaeda-Iraq 'Link' Is Tied to Torture Claim
Pentagon Sticks With 2-War Plan

GOP Accepts Deal to Extend PATRIOT Act
US Terror Watchlist 80,000 Names Long

US Considers Pulling 30,000 Troops From Iraq
Fundamentalist Death Squads Terrorize Iraqis

Majority Says Government Misled Americans on Iraq
Viewpoints
Rumsfeld's Handshake Deal With
Saddam  by Norman Solomon
Bush's 'Lucid Dreams' Becoming
Nightmares  by Leon Hadar

Sorry, Prime Minister, Your Legacy
Will Be a Disastrous Foreign War by Max Hastings
John Murtha's Johnstown
by Katrina vanden Heuvel
Taken for a Ride in the 'War on
Terror'  by Syed Saleem Shahzad
Iraq's Last Small Hope
by Robert Dreyfuss

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Frontline

In 'Victory,' Both Power and Peril

Eyewitness: I Never Heard the Word 'Bomb'

Fitzgerald Visits Law Firm Representing Time Reporter

General Confirms Secret Pre-9/11 al-Qaeda Investigation
Saudi Official: War in Iraq Sparked Terror

US May Yet Deport Acquitted Ex-Professor

US Military Probing Video of British Contractors

US, China Eye Possible Cooperation on Iraq, Iran Issues
 
Iraq's Must-See TV
The War Goes On

Explosion on Iraq Bus Kills 30, Wounds 40

Top US Official: Terrorists Won't Quit After Dec. 15 Iraq Voting

US Marine Killed in Baghdad Bomb Attack

Iraq Insurgents Claim to Kill US Hostage

Hopes Rise for UK Iraq Hostage
Security Incidents in Iraq, Dec. 9

Security Incidents in Iraq, Dec. 8
Occupation Continues

EU Leaders and Public Differ on Pullout in Iraq

Romania Calls for Bigger Role in Iraq Decision-Making

Japanese Forces to Stay in Iraq

Australia Signals It Will Extend Iraq Mission
Saddam Trial

Tension Within Iraqi Tribunal Taints Justice Hopes

Saddam Lawyer 'Threatened' After Adjournment

Gunmen Free Saddam Judge Plot Suspect
Iraqi Politics

Britain Trying to Stall Theft Investigation That Could Hurt Allawi's Election Chances

Sunnis Eager to Vie for Votes

Sadr's 'Militant' Campaign Posters

Iraq's Four Major Voting Blocs
Iraq Today

US Seeks to Hand Reconstruction Over to Iraqis

Heavy-Handed Police Part of the High Cost of 'Progress' in Iraq

Iraq Violence Raises Doubts About Progress

Iraq Set to Pump Less Oil Than Last Year

Baghdad Power Supply Falls Short of Prewar Levels
Egypt Votes

Egyptian Opposition Group Gets 19 Percent of Vote

Egypt Islamists Make Record Gains

'Electoral Intifada' Rages in Nile Delta

Islamists Build on Gains in Violent Egypt Election

US Sees Problems, Progress in Egypt Elections

Egypt’s Islamists Seek to Lift Ban After Poll Gains

Will Politics Tame Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood?

Egypt Slips Down Democracy Ladder

Egyptians Rue Election Day Gone Awry

Egyptian Government Steps Up Attacks on Voters
Iran

Britain Complains Iran Undermining Nuclear Diplomacy

Iranian President: Move Israel to Europe

Iran Faces Yet Another Barrage of Criticism After Israel Comments
Syria

Syria, Lebanon Vow 'New Page' in Relations

Syria Kills Eight Militants in Battle

'Syria Willing to Talk With Israel’
Middle East

Turkish PM: Iraq Is Going Badly

Saudi Ambassador Condemns Failure to Capture bin Laden

Muslim Summit Hears Calls for Ban on Preachers of Violence
Afghanistan

NATO Agrees to Expand Afghan Role

US Troop Reduction Likely in Afghanistan With NATO Expansion

In Kabul, Few Have Money and Most Have No Power

The 'Enemy Central' Province in Afghanistan
South Asia

Bicycle Bomber Kills Six in Bangladesh

Twelve Killed by Blast in Pakistan Tribal Market

Nepal Parties Dismiss Reshuffle

Complexity of Nuclear Deal With US Throws India in a Bind
 
War on Terror

30,000 Fliers Seek Terror Watch-List Removal

FBI: Internet-Based Attacks Unlikely

White House Backs Air Marshals' Shooting of Passenger

US General Says bin Laden Is Alive
US Military

Soldier on Trial for Murdering Fellow Serviceman

US Military Devotes Center to Bomb Training

Rumsfeld Says 'I Have No Plans to Retire'

Missile Defense: Leapfrog Race Against Death

Halliburton Offers Big Money for Warzone Truck Drivers
War at Home

Iraq Casualties Sign Will Stay Up Near Duluth Recruiting Office

Murtha's Tough Stand Boosts His Profile

The PATRIOT Act Can't Make Up for a Weak Case

Time Reporter Interviewed in CIA Case

White House Denies Rove Aide Has Left

ACLU: FBI Improperly Spied on Peaceful Rallies
Torture/Detainees

Torture: Disco Inferno

'They Would Beat Us Hard Before Interrogations'

Rice: Abuse May Still Occur Despite Torture Rules

Rice Offers Few Assurances on Torture
Europeans Search for Conciliation With US

Condoleezza Rice's Mission Impossible

Pentagon Memo on Torture-Motivated Transfer Cited

German FM Under Fire Over CIA Detention

US Envoy Reportedly Told Germany of Abductee

NATO Ministers Smooth Over 'Secret Jail' Spat

US Admits Blocking Red Cross Access to Detainees

Guantanamo Wife on Hunger Strike in Bosnia
Palestine/Israel

Israeli Missile Strike Kills Two

Israel Halts Talks With Palestinians

Palestinians Sue Former Shin Bet Chief in US for Deaths in Missile Attack

Israeli Soldier Stabbed to Death Near Jerusalem

Two-Thirds of Palestinians Living in Poverty

Mofaz: Likud Likely to Become Marginal Party

Israel's Likud Finds Itself in a Free Fall

Abbas Invites Pope to Holy Land
United Kingdom

UK High Court: Evidence Obtained by Torture Inadmissible

London Bombing Suspects to Be Tried Next Year
Balkans

Spain Holding Croatian War Crimes Suspect

Top Croat War Crimes Suspect Found After Four Years on the Run
Africa

Zimbabwe Crisis Reaches 'Meltdown'

Peace Slowly Taking Hold as Congo Prepares for Referendum

UN: Congo Peace Process Going Well
Americas

American Antiwar Activists March in Cuba

Cuba-US Relations the Focus of Summit

UN Admits Its Troops Shot Police in Haiti
In Other News
Australia Arrests Five Peace Activists
Chinese Police Kill Villagers During Two-Day Land Protest

WWII Internment of Alaska Aleuts Recounted
 
Columnists

Justin Raimondo
12/09/2005
The 'Real' McCain

Alan Bock
12/09/2005
Chinese Puzzles

Charles Peña
12/08/2005
A Tale of Two Cities

Ran HaCohen
12/07/2005
Democracy and Colonialism

Ivan Eland
12/06/2005
TSA Treats for Holiday Travelers

Nebojsa Malic
11/30/2005
Brave New Numbers

David R. Henderson
11/28/2005
Adam Smith's Economic Case Against Imperialism

Sascha Matuszak
11/23/2005
Who's the Boss?

Praful Bidwai
11/17/2005
Indian Nuclear Deal With US Turns Faustian Bargain

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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