Today's Highlights

To Russia, With Hate: Justin Raimondo
Gitmo Report Contradicts Govt.: William Fisher
Richard Perle Is a Liar: Stephen M. Walt
Our Friend in Tehran: Ali Reza Eshraghi
Freedom vs. Secrecy in Govt: Becky Akers
 
 Glenn Greenwald

Obama's Law

 Robert Higgs

Depression and War, Then and Now

 Jacob Hornberger

The Most Dangerous Threat to Liberty

 Gareth Porter

Obama Vs. Petraeus Continued
Obama to Announce Iraq Troop Withdrawal Plan by Friday    Gitmo Report Contradicts Govt. Claims of 'Humane' Detention    Pakistani Forces Promise to Observe Four Day Ceasefire in Bajaur    Plenty of Money, but Blockade Keeps Gaza Reconstruction Stalled    British Justice Secretary Vetoes FOIA Release of Iraq War Discussions    Senior PA Official Declares Peace Process Dead    Ex-Lobbyists in US Case of Espionage Win a Round    Taliban Accepts Pakistan Cease-Fire    Pakistan Says Strikes Worsen Qaeda Threat    To Russia, With Hate    Israel's Peres Ushers in Right-Leaning Parliament    No Terror Talk: Homeland Security Head's New Tone    2 Palestinian Women Become Judges in Islamic Court    Hamas Says It Reserves Right to Bring Arms Into Gaza    Red Cross Warns of Worsening Somali Crisis    Livni Tells Netanyahu: I'll Fight Iran Even From Opposition    US Loses Key Appeal in AIPAC Staffers' Case    Heavy Fighting Kills 23 People in Mogadishu    Pentagon Critic Tapped to Be Weapons Buyer    Senate Will Advance Torture Commission    Mosul Police Attack US Soldiers, Killing One    Officials: 'Most' US Troops to Leave Iraq by August 2010    War Without Warriors    North Korea Prepares Launch: Satellite or Missile?    UK Blocks Publication of Iraq War Discussions    Obama Urged to Halt Israel Demolitions    Guantánamo Testimony of Spc. Brandon Neely    Syria Denies Graphite Found at Bombed Site    4 US Troops Killed by Roadside Bomb in Afghanistan    Embargoes Infringe on Our Freedom    Freedom vs. Secrecy in Government    Pakistani Taliban Unite Against US    Our Friend in Tehran    Richard Perle Is a Liar    I Was Illegally Detained and Held in CIA-Run 'Black Sites'    
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News
Updated February 25, 2009 - 11:24 PM EST
Obama to Announce Iraq Troop Plan by Friday
 
  Officials: 'Most' GIs to Leave Iraq by Aug. 2010
  Mosul Police Attack US Soldiers, 1 Dead
  Tuesday: 1 US Soldier, 5 Iraqis Killed; 15 Iraqis Wounded

Taliban Accepts Pakistan Cease-Fire
 
 

Pakistan Says Strikes Worsen Qaeda Threat
 

Pakistani Taliban Unite Against US
  Pakistani Forces Promise to Observe Four Day Ceasefire in Bajaur
  Pak-Afghan Officials Declare New Trust in US Talks
Senate Will Advance Torture Commission
 
 

Ex-Lobbyists in US Case of Espionage Win a Round

Senior PA Official Declares Peace Process Dead

 
  Plenty of Money, but Blockade Keeps Gaza Reconstruction Stalled
UK Blocks Release of Iraq War Discussions
Viewpoints
Freedom vs. Secrecy in Government  by Becky Akers
I Was Illegally Detained and Held in CIA-Run 'Black Sites'  by Mohamed Farag Bashmilah
This Is a Recipe for Creating Terrorists  by Seumas Milne
Our Friend in Tehran  by Ali Reza Eshraghi
War Without Warriors  by Chris Barsanti
Embargoes Infringe on Our Freedom  by Jacob G. Hornberger

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Frontline

Pentagon Critic Tapped to Be Weapons Buyer
Gitmo Report Contradicts Govt. Claims of 'Humane' Detention

No Terror Talk: Homeland Security Head's New Tone

Iraqi Elections a Turning Point, Ban Says

Seoul, Baghdad Sign $3.55 Billion Deal to Rebuild Iraq

What Do They Have to Hide?

US Arms Dealer Gets 30 Years in Prison
 
Today in Iraq

Iraq Trial in April for Murder of British Soldiers

Iraq Sunni Politician Calls for Full Abuse Probes

South Korea Lifts Ban on Travel to Iraq
Violence Continues

Iraq: Measles Emerges in Violence-Hit Regions

Iraq's Waning Insurgency Scrambles for New Sanctuary

Tuesday: 1 US Soldier, 5 Iraqis Killed; 15 Iraqis Wounded
Guantánamo

Guantánamo Testimony of Spc. Brandon Neely

Paris Appeals Court Acquits Ex-Guantánamo Inmates

Spain Ready to Accept Guantánamo Prisoners

Binyam Mohamed

Gitmo Detainee a Headache for Whitehall

UK Guantanamo Detainee Enjoys 1st Day of Freedom

Guantánamo Ex-Detainee Stopped From Attending Reunion Party
Koreas

Official: North Korea Launch Could Be Weeks Away

North Korea Prepares Launch: Satellite or Missile?

Asia

Tibetan Regions Tense Ahead of Anniversaries

Thousands Demand Dissolution of Thai Parliament

Khmer Rouge 'First Lady' in Cambodia Court Tirade

Somalia

Heavy Fighting Kills 23 People in Mogadishu

Red Cross Warns of Worsening Somali Crisis

Somalia's New Top Diplomat Sees Lull in Violence

Africa

Is Mugabe Sabotaging Zimbabwe's Coalition Government?

Annan Warns Kenya Over Delays Setting Up Tribunal

 
Afghanistan

Blast Kills 4 US Coalition Troops, Afghan Civilian

Canada Probes Whether Blast Killed Afghan Children

Japan to Pay Afghan Police Salary

Pakistan

Facts About Insurgency in Pakistan's Swat Valley

Clinton to Meet Pakistan FM

Pakistan's Slump Creates Security Risks
Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan Troops in Last Rebel-Held Town

Sri Lankan Refugees Face Open-Ended Detention in Camps

What's Next for Sri Lanka's 25-Year War?

India

India Granted a 'Lifeline' After Kashmiri Elections
Israel/Palestine

Clinton Warns Israel Over Delays in Gaza Aid

EU Wants to Be 'Fair, Objective' Partner in Peace Process

Hamas Says It Reserves Right to Bring Arms Into Gaza

Israeli President Urges Europeans to Shun Hamas
Palestinian Group in Legal Challenge Over Britain's Israel Policy

2 Palestinian Women Become Judges in Islamic Court

Mideast Diplomatic Dust-Up Over Unpaid Dinner Tab?
Israel Politics

Israel's Peres Ushers in Right-Leaning Parliament

Livni Tells Netanyahu: I'll Fight Iran Even From Opposition

What Is Happening in Israeli Coalition Talks?

Syria

Syria Denies Graphite Found at Bombed Site

Diplomats: Syria Puts Missile Facility on Hit Site

Middle East

Tribunal on Lebanon Assassination to Open Sunday

Egypt Says 'Tiny Islamist Cell' Behind Bombing

Iran Arrests Students Protesting Reburial of War Dead on University Campus
 
Columnists

Justin Raimondo
2/25/2009
To Russia, With Hate

Alan Bock
2/23/2009
Empire at the End of Its Rope

Ivan Eland
2/21/2009
Obama's Policy on Civil Liberties: Bush Lite?

Nebojsa Malic
2/19/2009
A Year After

Charles Peña
2/18/2009
Portents From the First
Press Conference

Philip Giraldi
2/17/2009
Renounce Extraordinary Rendition

Ran HaCohen
2/17/2009
Abe Foxman's 'Anti-Semitic Pandemic'

Doug Bandow
2/06/2009
Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty: The Battle Continues

David R. Henderson
1/27/2009
Meet the New Boss;
Same as the Old Boss

Praful Bidwai
1/18/2009
'Good Cop, Bad Cop' Approach to Pakistan

Sascha Matuszak
11/10/2008
Business Over Bluster

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