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Democrats in Congress Are Out of Touch With Constituents on Israeli Genocide
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Democrats in Congress Are Out of Touch With Constituents on Israeli Genocide

Norman Solomon

Genocide denial is needed for continuing to appropriate billions of dollars in weapons to Israel, as most legislators have kept doing

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Workers Rights and Palestine Solidarity: Clover in South Africa

Workers Rights and Palestine Solidarity: Clover in South Africa

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Israel’s War: Gaza’s Once-Growing Economy is Nearing Total Collapse

Israel’s War: Gaza’s Once-Growing Economy is Nearing Total Collapse

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The Choice in Pakistan is Democracy or Talibanization: Guest Op-ed by Shahin M. Cole

The Choice in Pakistan is Democracy or Talibanization: Guest Op-ed by Shahin M. Cole

Shahin M. Cole, Esq., writes: ‘I am one of those Pakistan-trained lawyers you have been hearing about. I have spent the last few days watching […]

Juan Cole

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Barnett Rubin warns that knee-jerk support for Pakistani military dictator Pervez Musharraf is not exactly ‘realism’ of the sort some Washington politicians like to boast […]

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Major Bombing of KDP HQ in Kirkuk 12 Dead; 14% of Iraqis Displaced

Major Bombing of KDP HQ in Kirkuk 12 Dead; 14% of Iraqis Displaced

14 percent of Iraqis are now displaced from their homes. That would be the equivalent of 42 million Americans forced from their places of residence. […]

Juan Cole

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Extremists Expand in Swat Bhutto, Iftikhar Call for Rallies Media Defiant

Extremists Expand in Swat Bhutto, Iftikhar Call for Rallies Media Defiant

While the Pakistani military is bothering innocent human rights activists and attorneys who want to defend the country’s constitution, it is ignoring Muslim radicals’ advances […]

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Massive Bombing in Afghanistan Kills 50, including 6 MPs

Massive Bombing in Afghanistan Kills 50, including 6 MPs

In a further sign that the Bush-imposed order in Afghanistan (and the Middle East) is unraveling, a suicide bomber in Baghlan near Kabul unleashed a […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
2007 Deadliest Year Yet for US Troops 30 Bodies found in Tharthar Shiite on Shiite Tensions in South

2007 Deadliest Year Yet for US Troops 30 Bodies found in Tharthar Shiite on Shiite Tensions in South

2007 will be the deadliest year yet for US troops in Iraq. Seven American soldiers were killed on Monday alone, bringing this year’s total to […]

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Cole in Salon on Bush and Musharraf’s Grand Illusion

Cole in Salon on Bush and Musharraf’s Grand Illusion

My article on the Pakistan crisis, “Bush and Musharraf’s Grand Illusion,” is now available online. Excerpt: ‘ In the fall of 1999, as he campaigned […]

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Attorney Protests, Arrests Benazir Pledges Rally Urdu Press on Musharraf’s State of Emergency

Attorney Protests, Arrests Benazir Pledges Rally Urdu Press on Musharraf’s State of Emergency

The Financial Times reports that Pakistan’s cabinet has decided to hold elections in January after all, backing off statements made over the weekend that they […]

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Iraq
Erdogan Unswayed by Bush calls for Patience Wave of Bombings, Assassinations in Iraq

Erdogan Unswayed by Bush calls for Patience Wave of Bombings, Assassinations in Iraq

Bush attempted to mollify Turkish Prime Minister Rejep Tayyip Erdogan at a White House meeting on Monday, but given Erdogan’s belligerent comments afterwards, I’d say […]

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