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  • Tomgram: Michael Schwartz, Will Iraq's Oil Ever Flow?

    Michael Schwartz , Tom Dispatch, 2 February 2010

    Americans have largely stopped thinking about Iraq, even though we still have approximately 110,000 troops there, as well as the largest “embassy” on the planet (and ...

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  • Tomgram: Shooting Gnats with a Machine Gun

    Nick Turse and Tom Engelhardt, 14 January 2010

    In his book on World War II in the Pacific, War Without Mercy, John Dower tells an extraordinary tale about the changing American image of the Japanese fighting man....

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  • Of Underwear Bombs and Smart Missiles

    Prabir Purkayastha, Newsclick, 11 January 2010

    After Umar Abdulmutallab’s, the “underwear” bomber’s attack on the Amsterdam-Detroit flight, the US response has been to start installing full body scanners at airports...

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  • Honduras, Afghanistan and the Obama Compromise

    Srinivasan Ramani

    Apparently, the US strategy from the beginning, was to play along with the coup plotters' strategy in a case of running with the "we are against the coup" hare and hunting with the...

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  • Should Obama Withdraw the Stimulus Package NOW?

    Rohit, Newsclick

    There has been much debate of late in the United States about the economy recovering from the worst crisis it has witnessed since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

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  • New NASA Launch Vehicle: Rocket to Nowhere?

    D. Raghunandan, Newsclick, 7 November 2009

    The first new US rocket or launch vehicle since the Space Shuttle, and indeed in terms of launch technology the first new rocket from any country in the past thirty years, was launched in a...

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  • UN Envoy Says Afghan Strategy is Too 'Military-Driven'

    Dion Nissenbaum, McClatchy Newspapers, 07 March 2010

    Hours before boarding a flight out of Kabul, Norwegian diplomat Kai Eide delivered a final warning Saturday as he wrapped up his two-year tenure as the top United Nations diplomat in...

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  • Liz Cheney's 'al-Qaida 7' smear

    The Guardian

    If any further proof were needed that Liz Cheney is a chip off the old block of her father, then have a look at this video that her Keep America Safe front organisation is running. Using...

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  • Students Protest Fee Hikes at Universities

    Peter Henderson, Reuters, 4 March 2010

    More than 100 such events in over 30 states were scheduled for a "Day of Action" in support of public education across the country, prompted by tuition hikes and program cuts that...

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  • What the Muslim World Can Teach Us About Nonviolence

    Randall Amster J.D. , t r u t h o u t , 05 February 2010

    It might be a bad dream, but it feels real enough. The mantle of warfare slips seamlessly from one president to another, from one party to another, from one decade to another,...

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  • Google Teams up with National Security Agency to Tackle Cyber Attacks

    Adam Gabbatt,The Guardian, 5 February 2010 1

    Google's decision to enlist the help of the National Security Agency in tackling cyber attacks has caused alarm among internet groups and bloggers, who fear that users' personal information...

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  • Thousands of Civilians Flee Afghan Region as Nato Plans Onslaught

    Jon Boone , The Guardian, 5 February 2010

    Ten of thousands of Afghan civilians are abandoning an area of central Helmland where UK and US forces are set to launch one of the biggest operations of the year.

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