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Egypt: Israel’s Nukes Destabilizing to Region (Wikileaks)
Whenever any US official says that Iran’s civilian nuclear enrichment program is destabilizing the Middle East by posing a proliferation problem, I wince. A civilian […]
Karzai Wishes he had Joined Taliban
Rajiv Chandrasekaran of WaPo gets the scoop. His sources say that at a high level meeting in October, Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Karl Eickenberry […]
Former CIA Official Ray McGovern Defends Assange
Former high-ranking CIA official Ray McGovern denounces smear campaign against Julian Assange of Wikileaks
Fareed Zakaria Destroys Beck on Lunatic Islamophobia
On his indispensable television news magazine, GPS, Fareed Zakaria demolishes Glenn Beck’s mind-numbingly stupid assertion that ten percent of Muslims are terrorists. Zakaria’s courage in […]
Enormous Truck Bomb Kills 6 US Troops in Afghanistan as Constitutional Crisis Looms
The NYT reports that the Taliban deployed a massive truck bomb against a joint US-Afghan National Army forward operating base in the Arghandab river valley […]
Visser: Spin-Doctors and the Changing Nature of Imperial Power in Iraq
Reidar Visser writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: Treaties, Acronyms and Spin-Doctors: The Changing Nature of Imperial Power in Iraq In the 1920s, […]
Cardinal Ratzinger Moderated Opposition to Turkey Joining Europe on Becoming Pope: Wikileaks
The Guardian reports on wikileaks cables regarding the position of the Catholic Church on Europe’s Christian character and its unease with Turkey joining the EU. […]
Mubarak: W. Naive, controlled by Subordinates
We now have the full text of the May 19, 2009 cable giving background in preparation for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s visit to President Obama […]
Paul Defends Wikileaks: Neocons Don’t Like Losing Grip on Empire
Rep. Ron Paul defends Wikileaks on the House Floor:
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