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What I saw in Vietnam, 50 Years after the War and Ecocide
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What I saw in Vietnam, 50 Years after the War and Ecocide

H. Patricia Hynes

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – This year 2025 is the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Vietnam from the “American War.”  The […]

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“Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:23

“Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:23

10/31/2025 By Juan Cole

Samhain, the Celtic New Year, and Halloween

Samhain, the Celtic New Year, and Halloween

10/31/2025 By Hugh J. Curran

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Clarke Bush Pressured Him To Find Iraq

Clarke Bush Pressured Him To Find Iraq

Clarke: Bush Pressured him to Find Iraq link to 9/11 Dick Clarke’s interview on CBS’s 60 Minutes struck me as powerful and credible. I was […]

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Sistani Un Must Not Legitimate Interim

Sistani Un Must Not Legitimate Interim

Sistani: UN must not Legitimate Interim Constitution Reuters reports that Grand Ayatollah Sistani sent a letter to Lakhdar Brahimi, special envoy of UN Secretary-General Kofi […]

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Bremer Enacts New Investment Law For

Bremer Enacts New Investment Law For

Bremer enacts new Investment Law for Iraq ash-Sharq al-Awsat: Civil administrator Paul Bremer signed Law Number 64 on Sunday, altering the Iraqi law of corporations […]

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Reprisals By Assassination Against

Reprisals By Assassination Against

Reprisals by Assassination against Baathists az-Zaman: Iraqi sources connected to the ministry of the interior (=FBI in American terms, MI5 in British ones) say that […]

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Mudarrisi Loose Federalism In Interim

Mudarrisi Loose Federalism In Interim

Mudarrisi: Loose Federalism in Interim Constitution a Time Bomb Sayyid Muhammad Taqi al-Mudarrisi, a leading Shiite cleric of Karbala, has warned that there are explosive […]

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More On Spain Check Out Bill Schers

More On Spain Check Out Bill Schers

More on Spain Check out Bill Scher’s well-reasoned opinion piece in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. “Conservatives would like you to think that Spain wants to wimp […]

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1 Marine Killed Attack On Puk In Mosul

1 Marine Killed Attack On Puk In Mosul

1 Marine killed; Attack on PUK in Mosul, Police in Kirkuk leave 2 Iraqis dead AFP reports: ‘ a US marine was killed in an […]

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Iraqi Minister Calls Governing Council

Iraqi Minister Calls Governing Council

Iraqi Minister calls Governing Council no more Democratic than Saddam In the speech he used to inaugurate his reelection campaign on Saturday, Bush boasted that […]

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Muqtada Calls For Us Withdrawal From

Muqtada Calls For Us Withdrawal From

Muqtada calls for US withdrawal from Iraq From BBC World Monitoring: “HEADLINE: Shi’i cleric Al-Sadr denounces US presence in Iraq SOURCE: Voice of the Mujahidin, […]

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