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Join the forum discussion on this postThe Big Questions About Iraq
By PATRICK COCKBURN
Will Iraq disintegrate if the United States withdraws its combat troops?
The US and Iraq are close to agreeing a security accord under which the US would pull its combat troops out of Iraqi cities, towns and villages on June 30, 2009 [...]

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Activists Break Blockade of Gaza
Israel Allows Boats to Deliver Symbolic Shipment of Aid
By Linda Gradstein
Special to The Washington Post
Sunday, August 24, 2008; A12
JERUSALEM, Aug. 23 — Two wooden boats carrying dozens of human rights activists reached the Gaza Strip on Saturday afternoon after the Israeli navy decided no t to hinder the challenge to Israel’s [...]

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Join the forum discussion on this postby Patrick J. Buchanan
originally published August 15, 2008 by humanevents.com
Mikheil Saakashvili’s decision to use the opening of the Olympic Games to cover Georgia’s invasion of its breakaway province of South Ossetia must rank in stupidity with Gamal Abdel-Nasser’s decision to close the Straits of Tiran to Israeli ships.
Nasser’s [...]

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Embedded in Iraq
By Michael Massing

"Embedded in Iraq", the title of Michael Massing’s article in the current issue of the New York Review of Books in the New York Review of Books, has a surprising double entendre. He concludes:

Iranian hegemony over Iraq: that is the Bush administration’s [...]

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Their union says the action is to protest the war in Iraq, but port operators and shippers say it’s an attempt to influence their contract. The 8-to-5 action affects 29 facilities from Seattle to San Diego.
By Louis Sahagun
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
12:08 PM PDT, May 1, 2008
Thousands of dockworkers at 29 West Coast ports, including [...]

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Join the forum discussion on this postKurt Nimmo
Infowars
April 18, 2008
http://www.infowars.com/?p=1582
After police fished the body of Riad Hamad out of Lady Bird Lake in East Austin, Texas, they told the media the non-violent Palestinian activist and directing coordinator of the Palestine Children’s Welfare Fund had committed suicide.
“Right now, the indications are that this was not, [...]

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Join the forum discussion on this post By Kenneth B Finch
May 21, 2007 (Added Footnotes, slight edits 3/24/08)
Calling the Bush Political Machine “the Bush illicit gang” can seem inflammatory, particularly without a clear understanding of the machine’s organization, and its goals and its structure. Clearly most people who have in [...]

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Join the forum discussion on this postGlobal Research, April 1, 2008
World Tribune.com
Global Research Editor’s Note
The following report suggests that Israel is on a war footing.
These war games are not defensive in nature as claimed by the Israeli government. These military exercises are part of the broader US-Israeli military agenda in relation to Iran and [...]

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Published on Monday, March 17, 2008 by CommonDreams.org
by Jeff Cohen
In 1971 at age 19, I had a life-changing experience when I met dozens of Vietnam veterans who’d descended on my hometown of Detroit to testify at the “Winter Soldier” hearings organized by Vietnam Veterans Against the War. In anguished presentations, the Vets painstakingly described the [...]

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Another tragedy as the Shia majority turn on each other
Published on Thursday, March 27, 2008 by The Independent/UK
by Patrick Cockburn
A new civil war is threatening to explode in Iraq as American-backed Iraqi government forces fight Shia militiamen for control of Basra and parts of Baghdad.

Heavy fighting engulfed Iraq’s two largest cities and spread to other [...]

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