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Now we are hearing the same story, only this time about Iran – a much bigger target. The lie is much bigger, too: our own intelligence community says the Iranians abandoned efforts to make nuclear weapons in 2003.

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News
Updated August 18, 2012 - 11:20 PM EDT
Russia Rejects US Plan for Syria No-Fly Zones
 
  Fighting Rages in Syria's Aleppo, Damascus
  Russian Cancels Syria Meeting as France Demands Assad Be 'Smashed'
Two More US Troops Killed by Afghan Trainees
 
  War in Afghanistan Disappears From Campaign Discourse
  All NATO Troops in Afghanistan To Be Armed Around the Clock
Trapped in Embassy, Assange in UK Standoff
 
  Russia Warns Britain Against Attacking Ecuador Embassy
US Drone Strike in Pakistan Kills Five People
 
  Pakistan Army Chief: No Joint Operations Against North Waziristan
Pussy Riot Verdict: 2 Years for Anti-Putin Protest
Mursi in Press Crackdown as State Censor Reemerges
Somalia's New Govt: Change of Name; Same Old Game

UN's Multi-Billion Dollar Darfur Force Not Doing Anything

Viewpoints
Britain's Assange Overreach  by Murtaza Hussain
The New Totalitarianism of Surveillance Technology  by Naomi Wolf
Why the World Can't Tolerate a Preemptive Israeli Attack on Iran  by L. Michael Hager
Barak's Blunder  by Philip Giraldi
Obama Turns Back the Clock on Guantanamo  by Baher Azmy
New Evidence That Israel Is Bluffing About Iran  by Robert Wright

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Police Chiefs Offer Guidelines for Drones
German Court Lifts Ban on Domestic Military Ops
Guantanamo Plea Deal Prisoner Said to Have a Cat
US Keeps Russia on 'National Threat' List
Radiation Left by Navy Found on San Francisco Bay's Treasure Island
 
Syria
Russia Embassy in UK Says Attacked by Syria Activists
Syria Activists 'Find 60 Bodies in Damascus Suburb'
Clashes Near Airport in Contested Aleppo
New Syria Point Man Lakhdar Brahimi Believes Every Conflict Can Be Solved
Red Cross Says Met Lebanese Meqdad Clan, Ready to Help in Any Release
Iran
Ahmadinejad Says No Place for Israel in New Middle East
Report: Iranians Planned to Assassinate Israeli Ambassador to Kenya
Iran Is Simply Not Afraid of the US, Says Israel's Former Military Intelligence Chief
Israel/Palestine
Palestinian Taxi Hit by Firebomb in West Bank
Hamas Militant Killed in Accidental Bomb Blast
Bulgaria: Photo of 2nd Bombing Suspect Released
Eyewitness: Jerusalem Brawl Was Lynch Against Arabs
Israel Kicks Out Migrants – by Changing Their Nationality and Sending Them to Another Country
Yishai: African Migrants No Less a Threat Than Iran
Egypt
Egyptian TV Presenter, Chief Editor to Go on Trial
Egypt: Rafah Crossing to Be Sealed for Five Days
Bahrain
Teenager Dies in Clashes With Bahrain Security Forces as Tensions Rise in the Gulf Country
US Military
Decorated Soldier, Suicide Victim, Is Remembered at Calif. Service
 
Assange and WikiLeaks
US Rejects 'Diplomatic Asylum' for Assange
With Assange Inside, UK Police Guard Ecuador Embassy
LatAm Countries Back Ecuador in Assange Case
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Photos of Demonstraters Outside Ecuador Embassy
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WikiLeaks Haters Launch DDoS Assault on Russia Today
Afghanistan
July Is Deadliest Month of 2012 for US Troops in Afghanistan
Deadly Insider Attack That Left 3 US Marines Dead Was Work of an Afghan Teenager
Taliban Leader Urges Insurgents to Cut Civilian Deaths
NATO Brands Taliban Leader Omar's Eid Message 'Insane'
Why Afghanistan's Past Is Being 'Rewritten'
Britain to Pay Compensation to Family of Afghan Boy, 10, Bayoneted by Soldier
Asia
Pakistan: Deadly Bomb Hits Shi'ite Bus in Karachi
Indian PM Moves to Cool Panic as Thousands Flee Cities
China's Hu Gives Show of Support for North Korea
Japan Sends Back Chinese Activists in Bid to Defuse Island Row
Navy Adding Surveillance Planes, Drones to Its Asia-Pacific Fleet
Africa
Islamist Sect Suspected in Man's Death in Nigeria
Sudanese Refugees Face 'Humanitarian Disaster'
South African Official Defends Police Killing of 34
Groups: Investigate Rwanda's Kagame for War Crimes
 
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8/17/2012
The Reinvention of David Frum

Nebojsa Malic
8/17/2012
Blowback in Bosnia

Philip Giraldi
8/16/2012
Romney the Businessman?

Ivan Eland
8/15/2012
Left and Right Call for Escalation in Syria

Kelley B. Vlahos
8/14/2012
The Freedom 7 Are Beating Obama in Court

Charles V. Peņa
6/15/2012
Cyberwar for Me but Not for Thee

Ran HaCohen
5/28/2012
Tel Aviv 'Race Riots' Reveal Much About Israel

David R. Henderson
2/06/2012
Is Iran a Threat?

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