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US military issue journalists in Ramadi official military IDs, insist that all news reports must conform to versions of events issued by US military

In a dispatch posted at 3:14pm Makkah time Wednesday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US occupation officials held an enlarged meeting with journalists and correspondents working in the city of ar-Ramadi, the capital of al-Anbar Province located 110km west of Baghdad, o …

Al Gore: "The unpleasant truth is that Bush's failed policies in both Iraq and Afghanistan have made the world a far more dangerous place."

The pursuit of "dominance" in foreign policy led the Bush administration to ignore the UN, to do serious damage to our most important alliances, to violate international law, and to cultivate the hatred and contempt of many in the rest of the world.

JFK Murder Plot "Deathbed Confession" Aired On National Radio

The "deathbed confession" audio tape in which former CIA agent and Watergate conspirator E Howard Hunt admits he was approached to be part of a CIA assassination team to kill JFK was aired this weekend - an astounding development that has gone completely ignored by the establishm …

World Leader Speaking as the Iraq War Began - Yes, the French (and others) Were Right

Most of us have read articles ridiculing quotes made by the Neocons leading up to and in the early days of the war. Paul Wolfowitz[3/2003] We are dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction and relatively soon.

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Middle East: Has Bush's radicalism assured the fall of pro-Western regimes?

We can set up a simple Hegelian dialectic that explains the position of things in the Middle East today. The regimes that control Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Pakistan, UAE, Kuwait, Qatar and Yemen are all extremely unpopular props of the immediate post-Colonial era.

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Random Act of Vineness: Killfile

It's about time that we award the Random Act of Vineness to the Newsviner at the top of the Leaderboard, Killfile. To be honest, we've been waiting for quite some time to give him his last branch.

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