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October Surprise? Security Agreement said Near Signing; 3000 Christians Flee Mosul
Is this part of a Bush attempt at an October surprise? Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that its sources in Baghdad say that the al-Maliki government […]
100 Killed in Afghanistan; Security Deteriorating
Anand Gopal at Tomdispatch.com on ‘Who rules Afghanistan’? NATO is planning a crackdown on narcotics traffickers in Afghanistan. Pushtun guerrillas in Helmand Province attacked police […]
McCain: Obama Decent, no Arab
John McCain quickly shed his last vestiges of decency when he allowed his campaign to try to smear Barack Obama for having been in the […]
Turkish Air Strikes; Bombings, Attacks Kill 24
Turkish war planes hit 21 targets inside Iraq, in the Kurdish north, on Friday night. Meanwhile, bombings and attacks killed 24 and wounded 45 in […]
Economy in Free Fall, Politics of Personal Destruction
Graph of world markets in free fall. Obama predicted the Republican smear strategy against him last July, in every detail. They will try to paint […]
GI Killed; Sadrist Politician Assassinated
A US GI was killed on Tuesday in Mosul while answering a distress call Assailants killed Sadrist parliamentarian Salih al-`Ukayli with a roadside bomb near […]
Suicide Bomber Kills 11 in Baquba; Turks to Continue Strikes on Iraq
A female suicide bomber detonated her belt bomb on Wednesday near some Iraqi army humvees in front of a courthouse in Baquba, killing at least […]
Reprint Edn.: Barack Hussein Obama, Omar Bradley, Benjamin Franklin and other Semitically Named American Heroes
The below is reprinted from From February 27, 2008, because the [non-] issue is coming back up. At Cincinnati, Bill Cunningham, according to the LAT, […]
Unreal Debate
In the real world of political ads, McCain and his surrogates are shouting ugly insults at Barack Obama. He is accused of saying that US […]
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