Today's Highlights

Bush Got Iran Intel Last Winter: Gareth Porter
Turkey: Another Ally Lost: Philip Giraldi
Argue Like It's 1991: Justin Logan
To Die With the Philistines: Uri Avnery
US-Syria Détente on Hold: Khody Akhavi

 
 Karen Kwiatkowski

Tragedy and Hope

 Robert Dreyfuss

U.S. Still Backs Iran in Iraq

 Gareth Porter

Iran Lies Shift and Back Again

 Dilip Hiro

US Has Abused Iraq for a Long Time

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News
Updated December 18, 2007 - 11:25 PM EST
Turkey Withdraws From Iraq
 
 

Top Iraqi Kurd Refuses to Meet Rice Over Turkish Attack

 

US Helps Turkey Hit Rebel Kurds in Iraq

Pentagon Finds Little Long-Term Progress in Iraq
 
  Commander Warns Against Quick Iraq Troop Cut
  Report Gives Britain Low Marks for Reducing Violence in Iraq
 

Tuesday: 53 Iraqis Killed, 66 Wounded

Did Bush Get New Iran Intel Last Winter?
 
 

Iran Indicates It Is Building Another Nuclear Plant

Latest Violence in Afghanistan Kills More Than 30
 
 

US and Allies Review Afghanistan War as Attacks Soar

Judge Orders Hearing on CIA Videos

 
 

Judge: White House Logs Are Public

Viewpoints
Another Milestone on the Road to Serfdom  by Scott Horton
Is Bush Stopped in His Tracks on Iran?  by Chris Hedges
How Not to Investigate the Destruction of the CIA Tapes  by Emily Bazelon
Torturing the Language of Torture
by Sheldon Richman
To Die With the Philistines  by Uri Avnery
Basra Is Not a 'Better Place'
by Maggie O'Kane

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Frontline

Democrats Unveil Budget Bill That Meets Bush's Limits

Iraq's Sadr Not Quite Hezbollah Mold

Iraq Launches 1st Oil Tanker in 27 Years

Gays Living in Shadows of New Iraq

Assassination Jars Nascent US Détente With Syria

Japanese Ship Downs Missile in Pacific Test

A Grandfather's Suicide Bombing Puzzles Algerians

German FM Rejects Peaceful Nuclear Programs for Arabs

 
Official: Basra Handover Does Not Diminish Britain's Iraq Role
Today in Iraq

Iraq, Syria Sign Security Agreements

Truck Bomb Explodes Near Iraq's Largest Dam

One Killed in Mosul Truck Bomb

Body Riddled With Bullets Found Near Fallujah

21 Suspected Gunmen Arrested Under Baghdad Security Plan

Violence in Iraq Still Falling, but Pace of Decline Slows

Monday: 2 US Soldiers, 47 Iraqis Killed; 59 Iraqis Wounded
Kurdistan

Iraq Parliament Condemns 'Cruel' Turkish Air Strikes

EU Urges Turkish Restraint After Iraq Strikes

Iraqi Kurds Agree to Postpone Key Vote on Oil City

Pentagon Giving Turkey Intelligence on PKK

Occupying Iraq

US, al-Qaeda Interpretations of British Withdrawal Clash

Predator Crashes in Iraq – 8th This Year

The War at Home

Richardson Rips Rivals, Media Over Iraq

Bush Pushes for Further War Funding

Dems Slam Diplomatic Downsizing as Untold Cost of War in Iraq

Congress Seeks Passport Rule Delay

'War on Terror'

Doctors: Gitmo Briton Near Suicide After Years of Torture

Hoekstra Says Congress Will Defy Justice Dept on CIA Tapes

Afghanistan

Bush, Karzai to Hold Video Chats

German Kidnapped in Afghanistan

In Afghanistan, It's About Air Power, Too

Australian PM: NATO Must Do More to Stabilize Afghanistan

Pakistan

Pakistani Insurgents Join Forces on Afghan Border

Suicide Bomber Kills Nine Troops in Pakistan

Bhutto Warns of Anarchy if Elections Are Rigged

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka May Ban Rebels if Attacks Continue

Red Cross Says Volunteer Slain in Sri Lanka

Asia

Ex-Leader Thaksin Looms Large in Thailand's First Post-Coup Vote

Kyrgyzstan President's Party Wins Big

Seven Killed in Rebel Attack in Northeast India

China Scouts Colleges to Fill Ranks of Modern Army

 
Iran

Iran May Now Be Cooperating With US in Iraq

Russia Makes First Nuclear Fuel Shipment to Iran

Bush: Russian Offer Means Iran Should Freeze Nuclear Efforts

Palestinian Factions

Study: Hamas Maintaining Its Popularity in Gaza

Hamas 'Prepared' for Israeli Invasion

Abbas Rules Out Talks With Hamas

Fatah Says Hamas Responsible for Escalation of Violence in Gaza

Israel Frees Female Hamas Activist and Son Born in Prison

Freed Female Hamas Activist Calls for More Kidnappings

Israeli Air Strike Kills Three Islamic Jihad Men in Gaza

Israel/Palestine

Senior Israeli Official: We Don't Need American Approval to Expand Settlements

Quartet Worries About Israel's Expansion

Russian FM Admonishes Israel, Palestinians

Sarkozy Calls for Independent Palestine

Palestinians Win $7 Billion Aid Vow

Israel Allows Palestinians to Get New Cell Phone Network

Israel's Lieberman: Making Nukes Easy, Only Takes a Few Months

Lebanon

Lebanon Presidential Vote Postponed for Ninth Time

Lebanese Leaders Seek to Salvage President Vote

Somalia

Journalist Kidnapped in Somalia Is Said to Be Safe

Shelling Kills 12 in Somalia's Capital

Somalia: A Nation in Ruins

Africa

South Sudan Dangers Still Lurking

Nigerian Oilfield Militants Urge Unity Against Oil Corporations

Russia

Putin Says He Would Accept Job as PM

Russian Nuke Chief 'May Target' US Shield

Europe

Belarus Says US Sanctions Illegal

Poll: Czechs Still Oppose US Missile Shield, Want Vote

Americas

Former Uruguayan Dictator Detained

Venezuelans Tried to Bribe Miami Man, US Says

Venezuela Says US Trying to Divide Latin America

Fidel Castro Hints at Retirement

 
Columnists

Justin Raimondo
12/17/2007
The Huckster's Foreign Policy

Philip Giraldi
12/18/2007
Turkey: Another Ally Lost

David R. Henderson
12/17/2007
Don't Lean on the NIE

Alan Bock
12/15/2007
Postwar Elections and Peace Prospects

Doug Bandow
12/14/2007
Embarrassed to Explain US Foreign Policy

Nebojsa Malic
12/13/2007
The Final Assault

Charles Peña
12/12/2007
Bush's Surreal Iran Policy

Ivan Eland
11/13/2007
Bush's Role in Bringing
Pakistan to the Abyss

Ran HaCohen
10/16/2007
The Israeli Right Has a Peace Plan

Praful Bidwai
9/24/2007
Nuke Deal May Trigger Midterm Polls in India

Sascha Matuszak
9/18/2007
Chaos in the Great Game

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