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Trump’s Last Stand: Demands for Hormuz Task Force fall on Deaf Ears
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Trump’s Last Stand: Demands for Hormuz Task Force fall on Deaf Ears

Neil Thompson

Nations outside the US signal their scepticism about White House plans for an international naval operation to re-open the Strait of Hormuz

“Was never deep in anything but Wine:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:41

“Was never deep in anything but Wine:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:41

03/19/2026 By Juan Cole

The Democratic Nat’l Committee’s Kneejerk Backing of Israel Is Political and Moral Failure

The Democratic Nat’l Committee’s Kneejerk Backing of Israel Is Political and Moral Failure

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4 US Troops Killed, 6 Wounded Guerrilla War Kills, Wounds, Dozens of Iraqis Reuters reports that near Baiji north of Baghdad, guerrillas killed 4 US […]

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US Military Rules of Engagement and the Iraq War An informed reader sent in what I found to be a fascinating reply to my comment […]

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IRNA Carries Iran Statement to IAEA on Khamenei Fatwa Forbidding Nuclear Weapons

Iran Issues Statement at IAEA Board of Governors Meeting Corrected version: added additional material after IRNA update IRNA Wednesday, August 10, 2005 T11:39:36Z Journal Code: […]

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Samawah Governor Fired Australian

Samawah Governor Fired Australian

Samawah Governor Fired Australian Officers Critique US Military in Iraq Al-Sharq al-Awsat and agencies: 28 deaths were reported on Monday and 30 wounded in guerrilla […]

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Kurdistan And Future Of Iraq Al Sharq

Kurdistan and the Future of Iraq Al-Sharq al-Awsat/ AFP reports that hundres of Kurds demonstrated on Monday in Irbil (Arbil), 350 km north of Baghdad, […]

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Party Over On Cindy Sheehan Bob Harris

Party Over? On Cindy Sheehan Bob Harris has a must-read meditation on what things are important to George W. Bush and what aren’t, in light […]

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Courage Of Peter Jennings As We

Courage of Peter Jennings As we comemorate the late Peter Jennings, one of the country’s great broadcast journalists, it is worth remembering, as Lila Rajiva […]

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Joke Of Day Constitution They Keep

Joke of the Day CONSTITUTION “They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq. Why don’t we just give them ours? It was written by […]

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Constitution Still Deadlocked 35 Dead

Constitution Still Deadlocked 35 Dead

Constitution Still Deadlocked 35 Dead in Guerrilla Violence AP’s Bassem Mroue reports that the two-hour convocation of Iraqi political leaders at President Jalal Talabani’s home […]

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