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IRAQ: Nature Adds to Occupation Blows

Do No Evil – Farmers in Diyala province have been hit by just about every crisis possible. First the security disaster dried up supplies and markets, then lack of electricity cut irrigation, and now a drying up of water resources.…

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U.S. cuts off Iraqi who helped make the case for invading…

Politics – U.S. military and diplomatic officials in Baghdad have cut off contact with controversial Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi, a former Pentagon favorite, because of his increasingly strained relationship with U.S.-backed…

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7 Convicted in France On Terrorism Charges

Religion – A French judge on Wednesday convicted seven men on terrorism charges for recruiting young French Muslims to fight against U.S. forces in Iraq. Prosecutors alleged that the seven -- five Frenchmen, a Moroccan…

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How You can get Rich from Exploiting the Poor!

Do No Evil – President Bush recently requested another $70 billion to fund the campaign in Iraq. Was Saddam a monster? Were there WMDs? Links to Al-Qaeda? Was it all about oilââ;¬Â¦? All excellent questions, but isn't…

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McCain predicts troops be out of Iraq by 2013

Politics – WASHINGTON -- Republican John McCain, in a speech forecasting what the country would look like after his first term in office, said today that he expects the war in Iraq to be won and most troops to be home by January…

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DoD: Chinook helicopters at Pa. plant vandalized

News – Investigators have concluded that two military helicopters were vandalized on the production line at a Boeing factory near Philadelphia, the Defense Department said Thursday as it offered a reward in the case.

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Iraq War Harms US Security

Politics – with U.S. casualties again spiking and American troops bogged down in Iraq indefinitely, there have been virtually no prominent articles taking the neocons to task for their lack of realism in failing to see the…

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Defeat: Why America and Britain Lost Iraq

Books – In the new book Defeat: Why America and Britain Lost Iraq, Jonathan Steele dissects the war and explains how it could have been fought ââ;¬" and planned ââ;¬" more successfully.

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Stolen Night-Vision Helping to Kill US Soldiers

News – Thefts and illegal exports of advanced military night-vision gear are rising sharply and U.S. officials say some of the equipment has reached enemies in Afghanistan and Iraq,

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The Survivors' Stories : Guantnamo Makes Us All Less Safe

Politics – When we learned last week that Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi had blown himself up in Mosul in northern Iraq, the US government presented this as a vindication of its policies. Al-Ajmi was a former inmate of the detention…

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McCain: Iraq War Can Be Won By 2013

Politics – According to speech exerpts released in advance, McCain will say that only a small contingent of troops in non-combat roles would remain in Iraq five years from now. He predicts the drawdown will be possible because…

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Winter Soldier on the Hill

News – Winter Soldier on the Hill will allow the US Congress to be more fully informed about the situation in Iraq through soldiers' eyewitness accounts of the on-going military occupation, while they debate the funding…

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Suicide Bomber Kills 22 At Funeral In Iraq

News – Iraqi police say a suicide bomber killed 22 people and wounded at least 40 at the funeral of a Sunni grammar school principle just west of Baghdad.

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Editorial: For Veterans, There is no plan

Do No Evil – We're not prepared to deal with our vets. Even though the overall number of veterans has declined as vets from past wars die of old age, the government will be spending more - about $59 billion each year - on veterans…

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Bogus Claim, al-Maliki Stall U.S. Plan on Iran arms accusations

Politics – The Bush admin's plan to create a new crescendo of accusations against Iran for allegedly smuggling arms into Iraq has encountered 2 setbacks. A plan to show off Iranian arms captured in Karbala was called off after…

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Tangled Web of Allegiances Leads Back to Tehran

Politics – If politics makes strange bedfellows, then the relationship between Iran, the United States, and Iraq is the strangest menage-a-trois in international relations today. The constant barrage of criticism lobbed at…

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Shiite Power Struggle Divides Iraqis

Family – The Shiite power struggle in Iraq is further dividing the war-torn country. Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki's American-backed crackdown on the Mahdi Army is dividing some Shiite families. There are family members…

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The Apocolypse Invitational Golf Tournament

Politics – Bush eschews his beloved golf so Moms don't get the wrong idea about their dead children.

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Anti-war veterans group banned from Bremerton parade

Politics – They're expecting good weather and big crowds in Bremerton this weekend for the annual Armed Forces Day Parade. But one veterans group says they're not invited. The North Olympic Peninsula Veterans for Peace…

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US probing Iraqi companies for insurance fraud

Money – Companies working on Iraq reconstruction have been accused of padding their profits through an insurance scam, leading to a criminal probe and hurried changes in the way many contracts are handled by the U.S. Army,…

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Wednesday: 44 Iraqis Killed,109 Wounded

News – A pair of blasts targeting the Iraqi Islamic Party rocked Baghdad, while light violence continues in the Sadr City suburb. Later in the day, a large suicide bombing occurred west of the capital. At least 44 Iraqis…

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Girl, Eight, In Iraq Suicide Bombing

Politics – An eight-year-old girl strapped with explosives has blown up and killed an Iraqi army captain, reports say.

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Business Stirs in a Walled Neighborhood

News – Since Americans surrounded Saidiyah with the wall, as many as 400 families have returned to the neighborhood, and more than 800 shops have reopened--mostly with $2,400 grants from the U.S. Sun City Food was one…

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World News: 14th May 2008

News – 14th May 2008 Breaking news information and analysis of current events across the world.Daily news blog .Breaking news around the world, featuring the latest national, world, business, sport, entertainm...

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Curtain Time for Obama condensed version Part I

Politics – Evelyn Pringle has written a condensed version of Part 1 to her May 13, 2008, article

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