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The Gross National Debt
(Real-Time)
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Wednesday: 1 GI, 86 Iraqis Killed; 153 Iraqis Wounded
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Are
Americans ‘Good Germans’? Putin Is Said to Compare US
Policies to Third Reich
By Andrew E. Kramer
New York Times
5.10.07
(Excerpt)
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In a speech in Munich on Feb. 10, he [Putin]
characterized the United States as “One single center of power: One
single center of force. One single center of decision making. This is
the world of one master, one sovereign.”
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MOSCOW, May 9 — President Vladimir V. Putin seemed to
obliquely compare the foreign policy of the United States to the Third
Reich in a speech on Wednesday commemorating the 62nd anniversary of the
defeat of Nazi Germany.
The comments were
the latest in a series of sharply worded Russian criticisms of the
foreign policy of the United States — on Iraq, missile defense, NATO
expansion and, more broadly, United States unilateralism in foreign
affairs.
More…
Majority of Iraqi
Lawmakers Now Reject Occupation
5.9.07
(Excerpt)
On Tuesday, for the first time and without
note in the US media, more than half of the members of Iraq's parliament
rejected the continuing occupation of their country. 144 lawmakers signed
onto a legislative petition calling on the United States to set a
timetable for withdrawal, according to Nassar Al-Rubaie, a spokesman for
the Al Sadr movement, the nationalist Shia group that sponsored the
petition.
More…
Blair
& Chums – School Days at Oxford
One
Down, One To Go… Discredited Blair Announces His ‘Resignation’
AP
5.10.07
(Excerpt)
"I may have been wrong, but
that's your call. But believe one thing if nothing else. I did
what I thought was right for our country."
~ Blair
More…
Current News & Views
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Pentagon-Funded
Study: Insurgencies Usually Only Last a Decade or So
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Ramping
Up The Provocations: US Threatens
Even More Sanctions Against Iran in June
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Kuwait
Reviews Readiness for Likely US-Iran War
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US
Embassy in Iraq Orders Staff to Wear Flak Jackets, Helmets
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Cheney
Caught Saying 'Kick the Press Out' at Iraq Briefing
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Bombing
Mars Cheney Iraq Trip
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Pentagon Moved to
‘Fix’ Iraqi Media Before Invasion
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Marine Tells Hearing Of
Iraqi Civilians Shot Trying To Surrender
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US sergeant 'shot five
Iraqi prisoners at Haditha'
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Iraq:
An erosion of
battlefield ethics
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Marine
Says Urinated on Dead Iraqi at Haditha CAMP PENDLETON, California
(Reuters) - Angered that a beloved member of his squad had been killed in
an explosion, a U.S. Marine urinated on one of the 24 dead Iraqi
civilians killed by his unit in Haditha, the Marine testified on
Wednesday.
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NATO Admits Use
of Force Not Enough for Peace in Afghanistan
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Outrage in
Afghanistan as US Airstrike Reportedly
Kills 40 Afghan Civilians
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Afghan
Shooting 'As Bad as Haditha'
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An extraordinarily prescient TV interview
with General Norman Schwarzkopf and Robert Gates - Deputy National
Security Advisor to Former President George Bush Sr.
Why
Invading Iraq Was A Very Stupid Idea…
(Click on blinking
dot above for video)
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