Highlights
 
July, August Deadliest Months of Afghan War for US    Bush's Search Policy for Travelers Is Kept by Obama    With Hakim's Death, Who Leads Iraq's Opposition Bloc?    US Drone Attack in Northwest Pakistan Kills 10    Military Prepares Profiles on Reporters Visiting War Zones    Accusations of Vote Fraud Multiply in Afghanistan    Judge Rules That He, Too, Can Grant Access to US Secrets    US Won't Press Israel on Settlements    US Presses Yemen to Counter al-Qaeda    Report: Obama Poised to Scrap Eastern Europe Missile Shield    Was the Afghan Election Rigged, and Who Will Decide?    'Sibel Edmonds Speaks, but No One Is Listening'    Lebanese Security Forces Destroy 'One Third' of Hashish Plantations    US-Colombia Bases Deal Could Fuel Arms Purchases    Obama's Road to War    Different Country, Same Problem    Georgia Slams Railway 'Robbery' in Rebel Abkhazia    Get Out of Afghanistan and Everywhere Else    Afghanistan Apocalypse    Iran MP Says Rape of Some Vote Detainees Proven    Netanyahu Calls for 'Crippling Sanctions' Against Iran    Grays of Making Them Talk    US Eyes 12 Giant 'Bunker Buster' Bombs    Pakistan Suicide Blast Kills at Least 21 Policemen    Afghans in Greatest Danger Since Taliban Fell: Amnesty    Nigerian Police Arrest 30 Afghan-Linked Islamists    North Korea's Talk Offer Is Dilemma for Obama    Car Bombs Hit Iraqi Troops Ahead of Shi'ite Funeral    Fort Benning Investigates Possible Suicides    US Navy: Somali Pirates Fire on US Helicopter    Whistleblower's Courage at Guantánamo    Command Decision    US Helicopter Opens Fire on Afghan Medical Clinic    
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News
Updated August 27, 2009 - 11:25 PM EDT
US Copter Opens Fire on Afghan Medical Clinic
 
  Afghan Vote Reveals Growing Doubts About War
  Admiral Mullen Says US 'Starting Over' in Afghanistan
  As Slow Afghan Vote Count Trudges Along, Questions Mount
  The Long Vote Count in Afghanistan: Room for Mischief?
  Mounting Casualties Leave British Questioning Afghan War
  Taliban Condemn Kandahar Blast
Iraq Burns Its Bridges With Syria
 
  Leader's Death Is a Major Blow for Iraq's Largest Shi'ite Party
  Ex-Bosnian Serb Chief: US Helped Iran Arm Muslims
  CIA Had Sacked Baghdad Station Chief After Deaths of 2 Detainees
Top Ayatollah Slams Iranian 'Dictatorship'
 
  Iran's Factional Disputes Grow Increasingly Bitter
  Supreme Leader Khamenei Says Protest Leaders Not Foreign-Backed
  118 Nations to Back Iran's Proposed Ban on Striking Nuclear Sites
US Drone Attack in Pakistan Kills 8, Wounds 9
 
  Pakistan Suicide Blast Kills at Least 21 Policemen
Files Prove Pentagon Is Profiling Reporters
Gadhafi’s Jersey Campout Plans Have Residents Furious
US Increasing Use of Private Contractors in War Zones
Viewpoints
Seven Points on the CIA Report
by Scott Horton
Renditioning Under Obama
by Anthony Gregory
The Afghanistan Gap: Press vs. Public  by Norman Solomon
G.I. Joe, Post-American Hero
by Tom Engelhardt
Darth Cheney  by Jacob Heilbrunn
Closing In on the Torturers
by Ray McGovern

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Frontline
Report Reveals Cheney Misled on 'Trained Interrogators'
SD National Guard Leader: Pentagon Control of Local Troops Would Create Chaos
Jerusalem's Myriad Divisions
Russia: Concern Over North Korean Missile Testing
US-Colombia Strategic Accord Prompts Questions at Home, Across Region
GM Returns to Cold War Fear in Talks to Sell Opel
 
Detaining Justice
CIA's Instructions for Breaking a Detainee's Will
50% in Michigan Oppose Housing Gitmo Prisoners in the State
'I Was 12 When I Was Arrested and Sent to Guantánamo'
US Military
Military Rethinking 'Golden Hour' for Injuries
VA Ends Gulf War Illness Research Contract
Iraq
Iraq's Shi'ite Power Base Likely to Shift With Death of Hakim
Iraq Summons Syrian Diplomat in Baghdad Over Bombs
US Hopes for Dialogue Between Iraq, Syria
US to Set Up 16 Checkpoints in Nineveh's Disputed Areas
Iraq Violence Puts Off Plan for Seminary
Japanese Group Nears Big Deal on Iraq Oil Field
Wednesday: 7 Iraqis Killed, 13 Wounded
Iran
Iranian Prosecutor Requests 'Maximum Punishment' for Protest Figures
Sarkozy Threatens New Sanctions Against Iran
Iran's Khamenei Says Protest Leaders Not Foreign-Backed
Khatami Slams Trial Confessions as 'Lies'
Tehran Denies Reports It Is Running Out of Yellowcake Uranium
Palestine/Israel
Still No Final US-Israel Settlement Deal
Palestinians Pay the Price for Israel's Illegal Settlements
Netanyahu and Abbas Both Say Ready for Talks
The 'Elders' Arrive in Israel to Boost Mideast Peace
Long Shadow of 1929 Hebron Massacre
Israeli Lawyer Sues Swedish Newspaper in NY Court
Lebanon
Hariri Says Hezbollah Will Be Included in United Front Against Israel
Fears of Shi'ite-Sunni Violence Breakout in Lebanon
Oceania
Australian Military Court Ruled Unconstitutional
Amnesty International: 'Still No Justice' in East Timor
 
Afghanistan
Petraeus: More Tough Fighting Ahead in Afghanistan
UK Suffered One Casualty in Afghanistan for Every Vote
Four British Soldiers Die for Sake of 150 Votes
Alleged Drug Ties of Top Afghan Official Worry US
US Says Afghan Attack Won't Stop Progress
Bombing Deepens Despair for Afghans in Kandahar
2 US Troops Killed in Afghanistan
Troops Off Afghan Frontline Within Five Years: UK Envoy
Turkey Should Expand Role in Afghanistan: NATO Chief
Pakistan
Pakistani Taliban Seen as Regrouping
Jets Pound Militant Positions in South Waziristan
3 Killed in Shooting in Pakistan
Pakistan's Interior Minister: Only 1 Percent of Balochistan Supports Separatist Movement
Sri Lanka
Video Bolsters Claims of Sri Lanka War Crimes
Sri Lanka Rejects 'Execution' Video
China/Taiwan/Tibet
China Denies Xinjiang Inmates Killed: State Media
Taiwan Officials: Dalai Lama to Visit This Month
China Rights Advocacy Aide's Status Is Uncertain
Russia
Putin Defends Rebel Regions' Independence One Year On
Russia to Seek Help Probing Arctic Sea Mystery
Moscow Plans Purchase of French Warship
Somalia
French Agent in Somalia Escapes Dozing Kidnappers
Somali Islamists Ban Selling Explosive Things, Warn People Not Sell Cooked Food
Morocco
Islamic Radicalism Slows Moroccan Reforms
Americas
New Mexico Gov. Richardson on Cuba Mission, Plans White House Report
OAS Chief Still Has Hope for Honduran Settlement
Mayhem Crosses the US-Mexico Border With Informers
Hooded Men Slay 12 Indians in Colombia
United Nations
UN Chief Says Welcomes Criticism After Norway Memo
 
Columnists

Justin Raimondo
8/28/2009
Obama's Road to War

Charles V. Peña
8/28/2009
Different Country, Same Problem

Philip Giraldi
8/27/2009
Just 6 More Months to Victory!

Ivan Eland
8/26/2009
Canada Copies US Customs

Nebojsa Malic
8/19/2009
A Balkans Belgium?

Kelley B. Vlahos
8/18/2009
A Primer for the Neo-Patriots

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
Additional Contributors
Ehsan Ahrari
Doug Bandow
Uri Avnery
Matthew Barganier
Patrick J. Buchanan
Juan Cole
Jonathan Cook
Christopher Deliso
Sibel Edmonds
Tom Engelhardt
Mike Ewens
Joshua Frank
Aaron Glantz
Leon Hadar
Jorge Hirsch
Scott Horton
Dahr Jamail
Kathy Kelly
William S. Lind
Jim Lobe
Ray McGovern
Thomas Gale Moore
Brendan O'Neill
Rep. Ron Paul
John Pilger
Murray Polner
Gareth Porter
Gordon Prather
Charley Reese
Paul Craig Roberts
Mark Rothschild
Michael Scheuer
Norman Solomon
Paul Sperry
Joseph Stromberg
Jon Basil Utley
Jude Wanniski
Teresa Whitehurst
Andy Worthington


 
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