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Highlights
 
Ex-US Envoy Says He's Not Looking for Afghan Post    Obama Eyes 'Preventive Detention' System    US Says Aid Won't Go to Pakistan Nuclear Program    1 in 7 Freed Detainees Rejoins Fight, Report Finds    At Least 80 Killed as Pakistan Retakes Sultanwas    Ex-AIPACer Weissman Comes Out Against Military Action in Iran    KBR Paid $83 Million in Bonuses for Work That Electrocuted US Soldiers    Following Iranian Missile Test, Clinton Downplays Diplomatic Progress    Top Israeli Official Mocks Two-State Plan as 'Childish and Stupid'    Military Attorney: Waterboarding Is 'Tip of the Iceberg'    US Promises to Fully Fund Israeli Missile Defense System, While Cutting Their Own    Israeli DM Pledges to Uproot West Bank Settler Posts    How MI5 Blackmails British Muslims    Despite Talk, Obama Seeks to Retake Terrorism Front    US, Iraq Redefine Cities to Defy Deadline    UN Doubts Major Hezbollah Rearming in South Lebanon    FBI Chief Undermines Obama on Guantanamo Closure    Milan Judge Says CIA Trial Continues    'Go Home Nazi Scum,' Serb Hardliners Tell Biden    Kurd Official Denies US Trains Rebels    Fears of a Taliban Spread    Al-Qaeda Seeks a New Alliance    European Official: Israeli Strike Likely if Sanctions Fail    A Neo-Con Yankee in Karzai's Court    Car Bomb Blast Kills 41 in Northwest Baghdad    Torture and Empire    Reports Say Obama Will Call for 'Demilitarized' Palestine    From Antiwar Law Professor to Warmonger in 100 Days    White House Agrees With Congress on Pulling Gitmo Closure Funds    NATO Airstrike Kills at Least Eight Afghan Civilians    Terrorists in Prison: Is There Anything the Right Doesn't Fear?    76 Senators Sign AIPAC-Backed Letter on Mideast    What Was I Fighting For?    
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News
Updated May 21, 2009 - 12:20 AM EDT
Obama to Call for Demilitarized PA State
 
  US to Fully Fund Israeli Missile Defense, Cut Its Own
  Top Israeli Official Mocks Two-State Plan as 'Childish and Stupid'
Obama Mulls Preventive Detention Plan
 
  Obama, Dems Agree to Pull Gitmo Closure Funds
  FBI Chief Undermines Obama on Guantanamo Closure
  Special 'Terror' Courts Worry Legal Experts
  Despite Talk, Obama to Retake Terrorism Front
  Judge Says US Can Hold Detainees Indefinitely
US, Iraq Redefine Cities to Defy Deadline
 
  Car Bomb Blast Kills 41 in Northwest Baghdad
  KBR Paid $83 Million in Bonuses for Work That Electrocuted GIs
NATO Airstrike Kills at Least 8 Afghan Civilians
 
  US Says Only 30 Afghan Civilians Died in Earlier Bombing
At Least 80 Killed as Pakistan Retakes Sultanwas
 
  Fears of a Taliban Spread
After Iranian Missile Test, Clinton Downplays Progress
Viewpoints
From Antiwar Law Professor to Warmonger in 100 Days  by Alexander Cockburn
Liberty City Case Leaves Bitter Aftertaste  by Leonard Pitts Jr.
Terrorists in Prison: Is There Anything the Right Doesn't Fear?  by Glenn Greenwald
Watching Obama Morph Into Dick Cheney  by Paul Craig Roberts
Torture and Empire  by Stephen M. Walt
Netanyahu Adviser Moves Out of the Shadows  by Jonathan Cook

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Frontline
Ex-AIPACer Weissman Comes Out Against Military Action in Iran
76 Senators Sign AIPAC-Backed Letter on Mideast
Military Attorney: Waterboarding Is 'Tip of the Iceberg'
Milan Judge Says CIA Trial Continues
Trial of CIA, Italian Agents Provides Rare Look at Intel Work
 
'Go Home Nazi Scum,'
Serb Hardliners Tell Biden
Iraq
Kurd Official Denies US Trains Rebels
Iraqi Militiamen Frustrated That Promised Jobs Haven't Materialized
Kuwait Presses UN to Resolve Outstanding Issues With Iraq
Iraq to Slap Foreign Oil Firms With 35% Corporate Tax
One US Unit to Leave Baghdad Ahead of June 30 Deadline
Study: Nearly 25 Percent of Iraqis Live in Poverty
Wednesday: 43 Iraqis Killed, 79 Wounded
US Military
Gates Defends Cuts to US Missile Defense Programs
Napolitano: Piracy Among Coast Guard's Challenges
Iraq Rape-Slaying Prosecutors Want Death Sentence
Three Dead as US Navy Helicopter Crashes Off California
'War on Terror'
1 in 7 Freed Detainees Rejoins Fight, Report Finds
US Expected to Prosecute Guantanamo Detainee in NY
Ex-CIA Agent: When Did Questioning the CIA Become Anti-American?
Clinton-Era Hard Drive Missing From National Security Archives
How MI5 Blackmails British Muslims
4 Arrested in New York Terror Plot
NY Bomb Plot Complaint (pdf)
Binyam Mohamed: Torture Collusion Claims Silenced for Legal Reasons
Pentagon Official: US Must Take Gitmo Prisoners
Suspect Pleads Guilty to Supporting al-Qaeda
Iran
Clinton: Iran Can't Have Nuclear Arms Capability
US Officials Confirm Iranian Missile Launch
European Official: Israeli Strike Likely if Sanctions Fail
Iran's Missile Test Is Playing With Fire, Says Israel
Moderates Take on Hardliners in Iran Vote
Iran Approves Four Final Candidates for Presidency
Palestine/Israel
Spain Nears Ending Probe of Israeli War Crimes in Gaza
UN Rights Inquiry on Gaza to Hold Public Hearings
Prosecutor: Gaza Probe Goes on Without Israeli OK
Netanyahu: Israel Ready for Talks With Syria, No Preconditions
Israeli DM Pledges to Uproot West Bank Settler Posts
Palestinian Rifts Widen as New Hamas-Free Cabinet Sworn In
Egypt
Egypt Arrests 33 Members of Opposition
Egyptians Married to Israelis May Lose Their Citizenship
Saudi Arabia
Activists: Delay in Saudi Elections a Setback
 
Afghanistan
Ex-US Envoy Says He's Not Looking for Afghan Post
A Peace Overture in Afghanistan
Roadside Bomb Kills Two Americans Outside Kabul
A Neocon Yankee in Karzai's Court
Worsening Afghan Security Hurting Children: UNICEF
Gates Wants Review of Afghan Plan Next Year
Pakistan
US Says Aid Won't Go to Pakistan Nuclear Program
No Option but to Win Against Militants, Says Zardari
US Hails Pakistan 'Mood Change' Against Taliban
Al-Qaeda Seeks a New Alliance
Govt: 250,000 Pakistani Refugees Expected in Camp
Taliban Threat on Dress Code Works
Food Shortage Worsening in Restive Malakand Areas
Sri Lanka
War Over, Sri Lanka's Next Fight Lies Ahead
Aid Groups, UN Want to Visit Sri Lanka Battlefield
Sri Lanka Weighs UN Request for Battlefield Access
Sri Lankan President Seeks Compromise After War
Interned Tamil Refugees Face Two-Year Wait to Return Home
Pakistan's Crucial Role in the Death of Tamil Tigers
Sri Lanka's Tamils Voice Misgivings
Myanmar
Myanmar Lets Diplomats Visit Suu Kyi, Opens Trial
US Says Myanmar Trial Outrageous, Vote Illegitimate
Asia
India Gives Pakistan New Information on Mumbai Attack
Indonesia Military Plane Crash Kills 98
Somalia
Islamic Insurgents Attack Base in Somalia, Three Dead
Report: Al-Shabaab Leader Wounded in Blast
Africa
Sudan Hands Down Darfur Death Sentences
UN Raises Alarm Over Congo Killings, Rapes
Nigerian Army Turns to Informants in Rebel Crackdown
Lebanon
Israel Gives UN in Lebanon Cluster Bomb Maps
UN Doubts Major Hezbollah Rearming in South Lebanon
Russia
Russia: Arms Control and Missile Shield Linked
US Says Russia Nuclear Talks Make Positive Start
Europe
Vice President Biden Offers Serbia 'New' Relations
Britain to Present New Rules for Gurkhas
Moldova Parliament Fails to Elect New President
 
Columnists

Justin Raimondo
5/20/2009
American Death Squad

Kelley B. Vlahos
5/21/2009
‘March of Freedom' a Trail of Tears

Nebojsa Malic
5/20/2009
Biden Does the Balkans

Philip Giraldi
5/19/2009
Picking on AIPAC?

Alan Bock
5/18/2009
Torture: The Plot Sickens

Ivan Eland
5/16/2009
Don't Admit Ukraine Into NATO

Edouard Husson
5/15/2009
Twenty Years After the Fall

Charles V. Peña
5/13/2009
Pentagon Gluttons

David R. Henderson
4/28/2009
The Case for Prosecuting Bush

Ran HaCohen
2/18/2009
Abe Foxman's 'Anti-Semitic Pandemic'

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