BAGHDAD (IPS) — Living from one crisis to another, without electricity or freedom to move under a collapse of security, massive numbers of Iraq
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The headlines tell the world that the US and the Iraqis are close to a deal to get US troops to leave. Upon further reading, the deal isn’t abo
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In this issue of The Nation, an open letter appears in which the signatories position themselves as abject supplicants to Obama, begging him to rever
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On Sunday Michel Chossudovsky reasoned that the US-backed attack on the capital of South Ossetia was designed to produce a humanitarian crisis. On We
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As Philip Giraldi points out in his article “America’s Israeli-Occupied Media,” the Israeli government is continuing its campaign to get
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Western governments are telling their respective citizens that the financial support they give to the Palestinian Authority (PA) is used to foster se
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“The old future’s gone,” John Gorka sings. “We can’t get to there from here.”1That insight from Gorka,2 one of my favorite singer/songwriters chronic
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As a young Palestinian from Gaza, I had been eagerly anticipating the opportunity to study at the University of California San Diego on a Fulbright s
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August 14, 2008Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)Welcome back to the Buzzflash GOP Hypocrite of the Week. John McCain has taken great pains to establish himself
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BUZZFLASH MAILBAG[BuzzFlash Note: Look for the Mailbag again next on Wednesday, August 20. Goin' fishin'...] Want to join the conversation? Share you
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A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERTby Amy WeissOn the 73rd anniversary of the creation of Social Security, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) took the opport
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THE FIFTH COLUMNIST by P.M. Carpenter Slime-merchant Jerome Corsi's latest psychotic episode in print, The Obama Nation, is published by Simon &
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FINDING A VOICE by Ann Davidow It's easy for single-issue or third-party figures to assume the mantel of moral rectitude and criticize main-stream
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If we use the "Rocky" analogy (at least one more time), a presidential race is like a 15-round fight. You may start out with a few punches, but in th
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A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERTby Meg WhitePolitical analysis comes in many forms, but "a pile of words"? A relatively new Internet phenomenon referred to as
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A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTIONby Michael WinshipIn a letter written in 1648, Swedish statesman Axel Oxenstierna, chancellor to both King Gustavus Ado
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A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSISby Meg WhiteWhen Sen. Barack Obama's foreign policy adviser Susan Rice and others spoke repeatedly of a "theme of unity" at
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