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Highlights
 
Finland Blames 'Stupid Firemen' for Nuclear Cargo Ship Rumors    Memos Show Nixon's Bid to Enlist Brazil in a Coup    Clerics' Call for Removal Challenges Iran Leader    Testimony in Iran Trial Ties Mousavi to Unrest    Pentagon Worries Led to Command Change    Gaza Islamists Vow Revenge Against Hamas Following Mosque Raid    Afghan Election 2009: Freedom, Fraud, and Fornication    Canada in Arctic Show of Strength    US, Colombia to Sign Deal on Military Deployment Within Weeks    Security Risks, Segregation Likely to Undermine Afghan Election's Legitimacy    Weapons Cuts to Pay for Army Troop Increase    Ousted Honduras Official: US Played Role in Coup    Rising Tensions as Kurdish Party Blames Nineveh Provincial Govt for al-Qaeda Attacks    Too Gung-Ho? Israel Military Rabbis Draw Criticism    Confusion Over Future Role for British Troops in Afghanistan    Notorious Warlord Returns to Afghanistan to Help Karzai    State Media: North Korea to Reopen Border With South    Millions of Afghan Women to Miss Out on Vote in Landmark Election    Syria Denies Reports of Botched Missile Test    Afghan Government Seeks Election Day Truces With Insurgents    Bodies of 18 Militants Found in Pakistan's Swat Valley    Iranian Hard-Liner Named Intelligence Agency Chief    Intervention Begets Insecurity    War Crimes Are War Crimes    Abridged Histories of the Holy Land    A Thousand Little Gitmos    Israeli DM 'Reconsidering' Promised Cement for Gaza Reconstruction    Signs of Taliban Rift Hearten Pakistan, US    Bagram: Gitmo All Over Again    Afghan Govt Says Over 30 Rebels Killed    Mass Firings as Russia Reforms Bloated Military    Iraq's Coalition of One Changes Its Name    Iraq Delays First Census in Two Decades    Mercenaries and Murder in Iraq    US, South Korea Drill Provokes 'Nukes' Threat    Israeli Envoy: No Plan to Strike Iran    Taliban Threatens Polling Stations in Afghanistan    Honduras: What Business Is It of Ours?    North Korea Threatens Retaliation Over US, UN Sanctions    
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News
Updated August 17, 2009 - 10:36 PM EDT
Insecurity, Segregation Undermine Afghan Vote
 
  Taliban Threatens Polling Stations in Afghanistan
  Notorious Warlord Returns to Afghanistan to Help Karzai
  Millions of Afghan Women to Miss Out on Vote in Landmark Election
  Confusion Over Future Role for British Troops in Afghanistan
Blame Traded as Blasts Feed Iraq Kurd-Arab Feud
 
  Iraq's Coalition of One Changes Its Name
  Iraq Delays First Census in Two Decades
Gaza Islamists Vow Revenge Against Hamas
 
  Israeli Envoy: No Plan to Strike Iran
  Israeli DM 'Reconsidering' Promised Cement for Gaza Reconstruction
Clerics' Call for Removal Challenges Iran Leader
US Troops to Deploy to 7 Colombia Bases
Suicide Bomb Kills 20, Injures Over 100 in Russia
Ousted Honduras Official: US Played Role in Coup
Finland Blames 'Stupid Firemen' for Nuclear Ship Rumors
Viewpoints
Abridged Histories of the Holy Land
by Uri Avnery
Mercenaries and Murder in Iraq
by Eric Stoner
A Thousand Little Gitmos
by Petra Bartosiewicz
Intervention Begets Insecurity
by Marc Raskin and Megan Cheney
Bagram: Gitmo All Over Again
by Andy Worthington
War Crimes Are War Crimes
by Rami G. Khouri

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Frontline
US, South Korea Drill Provokes 'Nukes' Threat
Weapons Cuts to Pay for Army Troop Increase
Canada in Arctic Show of Strength
Pentagon Worries Led to Command Change
Military Pathology Institute Defends Its Turf
Memos Show Nixon's Bid to Enlist Brazil in a Coup
 
Iraq
Bombs Kill at Least 8 People in Iraqi Market
Ethnic Shabak Councilmember Wounded in Iraq Blast
Iraqi Worries Grow as Blast Walls Vanish
Gay Men Targeted in Iraq, Report Says
Sunday: 15 Iraqis Killed, 46 Wounded
Iran
Testimony in Iran Trial Ties Mousavi to Unrest
Iranian Hard-Liner Named Intelligence Agency Chief
Course of Mousavi's Green Path of Hope Is Unclear
Iran Expands Mass Trial of Opposition Supporters
French Academic Freed From Iranian Prison
Iran's President Says 3 Women to Join Cabinet
Palestine/Israel
Hamas Says Gaza Under Its Control, Death Toll in Clashes Rises
Abbas to Convene PLO Council for First Time in Decade
Netanyahu Envoy Departs for US to Negotiate Settlement Freeze
Israeli Soldier Stole From Military Chief's Office
Israeli Arabs Protest Home Destructions
Middle East
Syria Denies Reports of Botched Missile Test
Red Cross: Thousands Flee Fighting in Northern Yemen
Russia
Purges Strike Fear in New Chechnya
Fear Stalks Caucasus Amid Hidden War
Mass Firings as Russia Reforms Bloated Military
Nigeria
Nigerian Police Raid Islamic Sect, Detain Hundreds
 
Afghanistan Election
Afghan Government Seeks Election-Day Truces With Insurgents
Taliban Threats May Sway Vote in Afghanistan
Afghans Told They Can Vote – as Mortar Shells Fly
Karzai Faces 2 Rivals in Debate
Karzai Seen Winning Afghan Poll, but at What Price?
Afghan Female Candidate Packs Gun, Wears Trousers
Ahead of Vote, Afghans in US Backing Candidates From Afar
Donkeys, Helicopters Drafted in for Afghan Vote
Today in Afghanistan
Afghan Govt Says Over 30 Rebels Killed
Brown Says Afghan Mission 'Vital' as Death Toll Reaches 204
Kandahar Dreamers Test Taliban Edicts
Hagel Warns of US 'Drift' in Afghanistan
Pakistan
Signs of Taliban Rift Hearten Pakistan, US
Bodies of 18 Militants Found in Pakistan's Swat Valley
Intel Reports Warn of Possible Taliban Retaliation Over Baitullah's 'Killing'
Three Soldiers Among Five Killed in Swat Attack
Two Killed in North Waziristan
US Envoy Praises Pakistan Progress Against Taliban
Asia
State Media: North Korea to Reopen Border With South
India Fumes Over Khan's Questioning
Latin America
Chavez Says Obama 'Lost in Space' on Latin America
Myanmar
Webb's Myanmar Trip Sparks Debate
Myanmar Release of US Man Could Thaw Relations
 
Columnists

Justin Raimondo
8/17/2009
Afghan Election 2009: Freedom, Fraud, and Fornication

Philip Giraldi
8/13/2009
Wag The Dog, Again

Charles V. Peña
8/12/2009
The Ever Present Military Option

Kelley B. Vlahos
8/11/2009
No Color-Coded Revolution for Afghanistan

Ivan Eland
8/08/2009
Treat North Korea As a Child Psychologist Would

Nebojsa Malic
8/05/2009
The Lessons of August

Ran HaCohen
7/20/2009
Fascism Needs an Enemy

David R. Henderson
7/17/2009
NPR: 'Murder' a Controversial Concept

Alan Bock
7/06/2009
Independence, Empire Don't Mesh

Edouard Husson
5/22/2009
The Virtues of Gorbachevism

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