Tony Blair Must Be Charged With War Crimes
Tony Blair's stunning admission to the BBC that he would have invaded Iraq regardless of whether there had been Weapons of Mass Destruction revealed t...
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Are Crippling Droughts the Next Great Threat to Iraq?
Martin Chulov | Posted 12.14.2009 | World
The flow of the Euphrates that reaches Iraq is down, according to scientific estimates, by 50% to 70% and falling further by the week. The water shortage here has not been worse for at least the last two centuries.
US Swagger Equals Foreign Policy Disaster
Sharmine Narwani | Posted 12.14.2009 | Politics
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If Iran offers to swap its low-enriched uranium for higher grade uranium, does the US have the right to dismiss it because it doesn't meet our conditions?
Tony Blair Iraq War WMD Admission Sparks Outrage, Calls For War Crimes Prosecution
Alice Ritchie | Posted 12.13.2009 | World
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Former Prime Minister Tony Blair's recent admission that he would have invaded Iraq even if he knew from the start that it did not have weapons of mas...
Tony Blair: Would Have Invaded Iraq Without WMD
The Guardian | Posted 12.11.2009 | World
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Tony Blair has said he would have invaded Iraq even without evidence of weapons of mass destruction and would have found a way to justify the war to p...
What Does 30,000 Troops Really Buy Us?
Megan Carpentier | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics
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Is a graceful withdrawal and a less unstable puppet government worth more American lives? Are those lives really worth that "success"?
Czech Republic: Iraq Planned Rocket Attack On Radio Free Europe
AP | KAREL JANICEK | Posted 11.30.2009 | World
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PRAGUE — Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime planned to use an anti-tank rocket to attack the U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in ...
Mysterious 'Saddam Channel' Hits Iraq TV
AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 11.30.2009 | World
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BAGHDAD — Turning on their TVs during the long holiday weekend, Iraqis were greeted by a familiar if unexpected face from their brutal past: Sad...
Saddam Was Telling Truth In Missing Gulf War Pilot
AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 11.29.2009 | World
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WASHINGTON — Saddam Hussein was telling the truth, this time. The United States just didn't believe him. So it took the most powerful military ...
Gross Failure of the Media
Cenk Uygur | Posted 11.20.2009 | Media
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How can over a quarter of the country believe something that is patently untrue, utterly ridiculous, and lacking even one iota of proof?
Republicans Once Again Shamelessly Exploiting Terrorism For Political Purposes
Andy Ostroy | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
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Since 2001, 195 cases of terrorism have been uneventfully prosecuted in civilian courts, with 91% ending in convictions, But this little factoid surely won't stop Republicans from exploitative political posturing.
Iranian Memoir By Freed Prisoner Haleh Esfandiari
The New York Review of Books | Claire Messud | Posted 12.17.2009 | Books
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In Emin Prison Claire Messud The New York Review of Books "My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran" by Haleh Esfandiari. Ecco, ...
"Saddam Hussein" Calls In To Radio Free Iraq
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty © 2009 | Posted 10.27.2009 | World
Many people around the world have been cursed with cringe-inducing names (as this BBC story proves). Some, however, are more unfortunate than others. ...
My Testimony on 'Enhanced Interrogation Techniques'
Ali Faisal Al-Lami | Posted 11.29.2009 | World
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In 2008, I was kidnapped from Baghdad International Airport by American civilians with no known affiliation, and was blindfolded and taken to a facility where I was initially interrogated in a hostile way.
Tikrit Prison Break: Iraq Detains 109
AP | BUSHRA JUHI | Posted 11.25.2009 | World
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BAGHDAD — More than 100 prison officials and guards have been detained after 16 prisoners, including five al-Qaida-linked inmates awaiting execu...
Media Mud Pies: CNN's Embarrassing Response to Fox
Linda Milazzo | Posted 11.21.2009 | Media
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In response to Fox's childish and embarrassing ad in the Washington Post that challenged competitors' coverage of the 9/12 teabaggers, CNN is airing this equally chilidish and embarrassing ad.
Hitler Wants You to Wear a Condom
Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living
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Sometimes shock campaigns work but this one just leaves me feeling cold. And kinda icky inside.
A Stupid Made-for-TV Controversy
Jim Wallis | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
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News cycles thrive on controversy and the extreme, so those elements of our country are continuing to get more and more airtime.
Rachel Maddow: Her Intelligence is Right
Joe Cirincione | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media
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Maddow will not let former officials dodge responsibility for launching an unnecessary war in Iraq. Why do other journalists?
Andy Card: A Tale Of Two Quotes
Jackson Williams | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
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George Bush minions are doing quick damage control in the wake of Tom Ridge's revelation that he smelled a rat in White House efforts to raise the terror threat level on the weekend before Bush's '04 reelection.
Fox News "Can't Get a Straight Answer" from White House
Andy Ostroy | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
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The hypocritical Republican crybabies at Fox are outraged over a heated exchange last Thursday between Obama's press secretary Robert Gibbs and their White House correspondent, Major Garrett.
Do Governments Need The Media to Bring Criminals to Justice?
Eric Blinderman | Posted 08.24.2009 | Media
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America's Most Wanted has successfully bridged the gap between entertainment and law enforcement; The Wanted attempts to do this on an international scale.
Must it be Business as Usual as the People of Iran Hang in the Balance?
Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 08.20.2009 | World
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Citizen lobbies and elected representatives have to ask this simple question: do we have to do business with people who do business with the Mullahs?
Random Thoughts for a Monday Morning
Andy Ostroy | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics
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For sure, let's not focus on the eight years it took Bush to destroy the economy when we can blame Obama for not fixing this colossal mess in his first 5 months.
History Has Not Yet Judged Bush
James Denselow | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics
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Certainly Bush's rewriting of his Iraq legacy will be helped by his decision to reverse his earlier policies, abandoning the idealism of the top-down reinvention of Iraq, for reality-based pragmatism.
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