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Former Soldier Accused of Brutal Rape and Murder of 14-Year Old Iraqi Girl Starts Trial »
Posted by: dissent 6 months, 4 weeks ago in News
23-year-old Steven Green is accused of bragging 'that was awesome' after the premeditated killing of Abeer Qasim Hamza al-Janabi and her family.
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Did oil influence America's decision to invade Afghanistan? »
Posted by: dissent 6 months, 2 weeks ago in News
America has wanted a new government in Afghanistan since at least 1998, three years before the attacks on 11 September 2001. The official report from ...
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It's not just Afghanistan: it's everywhere from Azerbaijan to Uzbekistan. »
Posted by: dissent 4 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Central Asia has oil and gas.
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And heroin.
Journalist Simon Reeve said of his trip to the Stans, such as Uzbekistan:
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Baghdads water still undrinkable 6 years after invasion »
Posted by: dissent 8 months, 1 week ago in News
BAGHDAD — The stench of human waste is enough to tell Falah abu Hasan that his drinking water is bad. His infant daughter Fatma's continuous ...
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Barracks and Burger King: U.S. Builds a Supersized Base in Afghanistan »
Posted by: dissent 3 months, 2 weeks ago in News
BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan -- Anyone who thinks the Afghanistan troop "surge" is a temporary, one-time deal should watch the construction here of a vast new ...
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MPs 'regret' use of UK arms by Israel in Gaza | The Jewish Chronicle »
Posted by: dissent 3 months ago in News
A committee of MPs has said it was regrettable that arms components made in the UK were “almost certainly” used by Israel in the conflict ...
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War For The Truth Of History »
Posted by: tehranchik 10 months, 1 week ago in Political News
My last posting The New Nazis drew a response from Thermblog as published below. I "may be called a Nazi" he wrote. In Thermblog's ...
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YouTube - Land of Ruins: A Special Report on Gaza's Economy-1/2 »
Posted by: dissent 7 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Democracy Now! producer Anjali Kamat files a report on the state of the Gazan economy, where unemployment and poverty rates are among the highest in ...
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Israel seizes land for settlement expansion »
Posted by: dissent 9 months, 1 week ago in News
EFRAT, West Bank; Plans to expand a West Bank settlement by up to 2,500 homes drew Palestinian condemnation Monday and presented an early test ...
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Clinton, Goldstone and true cost of the occupation »
Posted by: jovial 3 weeks, 1 day ago in News
After US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to Jerusalem this weekend, the US-mediated peace talks threaten to collapse. Meanwhile Israel ramps up its ...
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Robert Fisk: Civilians pay price of war from above -
Robert Fisk, Commentators - The Independent »Posted by: dissent 6 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Of course there will be an inquiry. And in the meantime, we shall be told that all the dead Afghan civilians were being used as ...
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Obama should listen to Iraqis rather than lecturing them »
Posted by: dissent 7 months, 2 weeks ago in News
While broadly sticking to his promise to pull combat troops out in 16 months (the date of August 2010 he now favours is actually 18 ...
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Reality Is Its Own Caricature for US in Afghanistan and Pakistan »
Posted by: dissent 3 months ago in News
The problem with U.S.-sponsored elections in Asia and elsewhere in the non-Western world, as in Afghanistan Aug. 20, is that they are sponsored ...
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US to be buried in 'Graveyard of Empires' »
Posted by: dissent 6 months, 1 week ago in News
US efforts to cut out a friendly Afghan administration could end up as disastrous as the previous international approaches on the country, says a former ...
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America’s Violent Extremism - Paul Craig Roberts »
Posted by: dissent 5 months, 3 weeks ago in News
After the euphoric attention to idealistic rhetoric dies down, Obama will be criticized for extravagant words that create unrealizable expectations. But were the extravagant words ...
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