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Report: Iraq social and refugee crisis is worsening
By Sandy English | According to a report issued last week by the human rights organization Amnesty International, the plight...
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Big Oil’s Big Lie
By George Monbiot | Of course, it’s not a crime, and it’s hard to see how, in a free society, it could or should become...
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Mind-Forged Manacles
By George Monbiot | Which of these countries has the most prisoners per head of population? Sudan, Syria, China, Burma, Saudi...
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Alternatives to Free Trade: Fair Trade and Beyond
By Shamus Cooke | The global debate around free-trade and its consequences has evolved tremendously in recent years, from...
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The Real State of Iraq
By Juan Cole | American television loves natural disasters. The Burmese cyclones that may have carried off as many as 200,000...
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Activists, Journalists Harassed Ahead Of EU Meeting
Radio Free Europe | Ahead of an EU-Turkmen meeting on human rights in Ashgabat, civic activists and independent journalists...
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Richard Dowden: If the people want power, they must fight for it
While it was always a possibility that the Zimbabwean opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, would pull out of Friday’s...
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Civilian sex assaults by Afghan soldiers ignored
By Rick Westhead | Canadian soldiers serving in Afghanistan have been ordered by commanding officers “to ignore”...
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Reporters Say Networks Block War Reports
By Brian Stelter | Getting a story on the evening news isn’t easy for any correspondent. And for reporters in Iraq...
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NATO: 6,000 troops urgently needed in Afghanistan
BERLIN (Reuters) | Up to 6,000 additional troops are urgently needed in Afghanistan and a failure to deploy them will only...
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Dems to OK Bush War Funds Without Conditions
By ANDREW TAYLOR | Democratic and GOP leaders in the House announced agreement Wednesday on a long-overdue war funding bill...
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Sweden passes ‘Big Brother bill’
Press TV | Swedish lawmakers vote in favor of a controversial bill allowing all emails and phone calls to be monitored over...
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World Governments Misleading and Failing Iraqi Refugees
Amnesty International | The international community is evading its responsibility towards refugees from Iraq by promoting...
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Zimbabwe Government Blocks Aid for Six Million In Need
By Ephraim Nsingo | Sixty-six year old Gogo Lethiwe Ncube gazes at a distant truck cruising towards the Avoca Shopping Centre...
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US spy base to be built in Western Australia
BY PHILIP DORLING | Australian defence support for United States military operations in the Middle East will be boosted...
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Read the Government Report On Slavery and Iraq
Irregular Times | There is a report that was released by the U.S. State Department just at the end of last week, and it’s...
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Why Are Corporate Journalists So Afraid of Questioning Authority?
By Scott Ritter | “I think the questions were asked. I think we pushed. I think we prodded. I think we challenged...
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How many innocent people are going out of their minds today?
By George Monbiot | We shouldn’t be surprised to hear that George Bush dined with a group of historians on Sunday night....
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Bush threatens Iran with military action
By Colin Brown | George Bush has warned Iran that military action is still “on the table” if it fails to respond...
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Detention Camp Remains, but Not Its Rationale
By WILLIAM GLABERSON | The Guantánamo Bay detention center will not close today or any day soon. But the Supreme Court’s...
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Democracy in the EU Institutions
Blair Watch | There is much debate over the Irish rejection of the Lisbon treaty, but what I’m finding interesting...
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A New Kind Of Corporate Slavery
Corporations are getting rich using federal prisoners as captive labor pools. By Betty Brink | Unless she’s dying or recovering...
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Renditions Victim to Sue German Government
Spiegel | A German-Lebanese victim of the CIA’s extraordinary renditions program plans to sue the government in Berlin...
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Picket killed in fuel protest in Spain
By Daniel Woolls | Truckers angry over soaring fuel prices blocked highways across Spain on Tuesday, disrupting supplies...
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An alternative to oil?
By Lee Waters | Oil prices could reach $200 a barrel by the end of the year, and the cost of filling up is rising nearly...




