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WAR: About that War

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by Justin Raimondo (AntiWar.com)

As a groggy and very hung-over American hegemon wakes from a dream of imperial dominion and faces the harsh light of morning in war-torn Iraq, the cruel reality of what General Odom calls "the greatest strategic disaster" in our history is

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Los Angeles Times

As part of an information offensive in Iraq, the U.S. military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an effort to burnish the image of the U.S. mission in Iraq.

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Reuters

Faced with European demands that the US explain secret detention centers to interrogate terrorism suspects were located in two unnamed east European countries, Rice intends to remind the Europeans that they are in a joint fight against an enemy that

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San Francisco Chronicle

Lawmakers killed the widely criticized nuclear "bunker buster" concept, which critics regarded as too aggressive, and instead appropriated $25 million for research on what is called the reliable replacement warhead, or RRW.

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London Times

THE Middle Eastern news network Al-Jazeera was accused by Donald Rumsfeld of broadcasting “vicious, inaccurate and inexcusable” reports about the war in Iraq the day before President Bush suggested bombing the station’s headquarters to Tony Blair at

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A blog by Al Jazeera Staffers

Hear from the Al Jazeera staff whose crime was reporting the news in the Middle East from all sides, or letting the video speak for itself.

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The Daily Star

It's not known how many prostitutes work in Baghdad or how many have been killed or threatened. But prostitutes, community leaders and police reported that prostitution has significantly changed in the capital. Once an open secret, the business i

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Associated Press

As of Saturday, Nov. 26, 2005, at least 2,105 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003. At least 1,653 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.

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Reuters

Abuse of human rights in Iraq is as bad now as it was under Saddam Hussein, if not worse, former prime minister Iyad Allawi said. "People are doing the same as (in) Hussein's time and worse. It is an appropriate comparison."

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Associated Press

Iran's hard-line president said the Bush administration should be tried on war crimes charges, and he denounced the West for pressuring Iran to curb its controversial nuclear program.

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Los Angeles Times

In e-mails to his family, Westhusing seemed especially upset that traditional military values such as duty, honor and country had been replaced by profit motives in Iraq, where the U.S. had come to rely heavily on contractors for jobs once done by th

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Daily Telegraph

Poland's newly elected government threw open its top secret Warsaw Pact military archives - including a 1979 map revealing the Soviet bloc's vision of a seven-day atomic holocaust between Nato and Warsaw Pact forces.

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The tactical question today is this: What can critics do to persuade the voters that (1) this war is a colossal mistake, (2) our troops' continued presence in the Middle East is an equally colossal mistake, and (3) American troops must get out of

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USA Today

Drawing lessons from his own career, Col. Mat Moten tells his students at West Point they could one day have a duty just as important as fighting terrorism: helping rebuild an Army fractured and exhausted by a long and unpopular war.

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Reuters

President Bush's hopes for a brief reprieve from the bitter Iraq war debate were dashed on Friday when peace activist Cindy Sheehan rallied her troops in protest near his central Texas ranch.

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BBC News

A US company has been given a two-year contract to help fight piracy off the Somalia coast - seen as among the world's most dangerous waters. Topcat Marine Security will target the "mother ship" launching pirate ships from the open sea,

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by Tom Engelhardt (Tom Dispatch)

In the case of the American imperium, such as it is, the builders seem largely to have been in the hire of our vice president's favorite corporation, Halliburton (and its subsidiary KBR). So here's a quick whirl through the monuments of our e

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