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Syria's Assad Fingered in Hariri Assassination
Arab League Fuming Over Danish Mohammed Cartoons
Chalabi Takes Over Iraqi Oil Ministry
1948 - 2005 - Palestinians In Iraq
'Black' America
2005 is the year of torture, rendition, secret prisons, illegal extra-judicial spying, corruption, coverup...and it all promises to expand considerabl ...
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Poisoned Honey: Israeli Tactics in Post-Disengagement Gaza
Rising Anti-Arab Anti-Muslims Attitudes and Results on U.S. Campuses
Police State Egypt Strikes Again - Blood Pools On Egyptian Street
Penetrating Neocon 'Scooter' Libby
A high-stakes nuclear gamble
Israel-Firster Cheryl Halpern Named Head Of Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Austria pulls Chirac-Bush-Queen sex posters
Chinese Journalists Walk Out en masse in Protest
Malcolm Hoenlein Interviewed in Ha'aretz Online
Israel's Ha'aretz Blogs About the Jewish World
Israel's Ha'aretz Twists Blogs About Palestine
Escalation Inevitable Says Schff of Israel
NYTimes Versus Robert Fisk of The Independent
Israel To Put Anti-Missile System on Passenger Jets
Will Bush Experience Clinton's 2nd Term Impeachment Process?
Telling it like it isn't - Fisk on U.S. Media, the Middle East, and Israel
It's the rare occassion in the U.S. that the establishment corporate media deal with these crucial subjects in this way. In this case it's a long-tim ...
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The Times smears Robert Fisk
U.S. 'Phased Withdrawal' from Iraq Proceeds
There are many reasons the Americans are handling things as they are among them: * Having exhausted the deployments of the Reserves the U.S. simply la ...
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Further Chaos and Mayhem in Imprisoned Gaza
Oil Rich Iraq Coming Apart
2006 will not be a good year for Palestine
From: Saber Ahmed Jazbhay - Durban, S.A. 30th December 2005 The Editor - via email Sir 2006 will not be a good year for Palestine 2006 will ...
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Israel army chief rules out early strike on Iran
EU Criticizes Egypt's Jailing of Mubarak Foe
Iraq's History Still Divides Children of Mesopotamia
Thanks to the Americans northern Iraq has become Kurdistan -- no U.N. seat but just about everything else -- and southern Iraq has become Shialand, cl ...
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Impeachment is Now Real
Gated America
Top electronics show offers cars, sex, software
NSA Web Site Places 'Cookies' on Computers
Queen Bush et. al Sex Poster To Much For Some in Austria
Bush and Cheney Reportedly Closer than Ever
Hard to know of course what is true and what is public relations spin. Other reports in recent months have been quite otherwise. This report today i ...
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Israelis Now Debate How To 'Deal With' Hamas
Fearful PA Fateh Tries Uniting Against Hamas
Abbas Prepares Way to Cancel Palestinian Elections Blaming Israel
The Department of Arab and International Relations PLO Press Release The Department of Arab and ...
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Palestinians Face Further Dictate from U.S. and the 'Quartet'
In the end it is the Americans who are pulling most of the strings and trying desperately to orchestrate all that happens. And behind them of course ...
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Judith Kipper and CFR now front for Saudi Arabia
EU Now Has GPS, China and Others Will Surely Follow
Shock, awe and Hobbes have backfired on America's neocons
US Threatens PA In Advance of Upcoming Partial Election
Now the Americans, and their chums, want to determine not only who can vote and when and how, but who can be elected and who can have any power and in ...
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New Hope To End Violence Says Vatican Rep in Holy Land
Bin Laden Group to help build new Saudi 'Tourist City'
Gaza Descends Into Chaos As Foreign Workers Are Kidnapped
I do not regret athletes' deaths, says Munich massacre plotter
Illegal Wiretapping To Be At Heart of Many Defenses Now
The Constant Gardener - Le Carré’s propaganda overdose
Wiretaps fail to make dent in terror war; al Qaeda used messengers
Seriously Overreaching Neocons
Saving Israel From Itself
Today's Joseph and Mary would face 15 checkpoints
The Israelis, egged on and funded by the Americans and International Jewry, have sure made quite a mess of the once Holy Land. Never ever has there b ...
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Palestinian 'Democracy' At Crossroads
WSJ comes to Bush/Cheney National Security State Defense
Just a day after Barron's so unexpectedly came out for Impeacehment Hearings the WSJ weights in supporting Bush/Cheney and the National Security State ...
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AShampoo - Make An Offer
Rice Ordered for Bush Bugging of U.N. HQ, Sec-Gen Office, International Embassies and Consulates
PA Under Great U.S., E.U., Arab and Israeli Pressure to 'Postpone' 25 Jan Election
A feverish attempt to find a sufficient excuse to once again 'postpone' the Palestiniann election actually set in motion by U.S. and Israeli policies ...
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USAF Nows Readies to Guard and Fight in Cyberspace
Now Israeli Spies Blast Spielberg's MUNICH
The new Ugly Americans - Chinese Set Off To See The World
How useful is US propaganda in Iraq?
Sharon Plans To Fix Israeli Borders With the Wall
Behind Iran's hard-line on Israel
U.S. Now Quasi-Embracing Iraqi "nationalist' 'insurgents'
China to rememer the 'Good Nazi'
Iran wins big in Iraq's elections
It's truly an amazingly contradictory and potential catastrophic situation. Even as the U.S. and Israel prepare to militarily take down Iran it is Ir ...
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Japan's Unwelcome Iraq
Military Recruiters Want Numbers Down
Israeli Settlers Expanding Wave of 'Outposts'
Build a few isolated 'outposts' now, call them the dismantling of 'settlements' later... It's an old trick rather transparent on its face but the pol ...
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Will They Bug the New White House Press Room?
Canada Gives Legal OK to Group Sex
U.S. Spied on Sec-Gen and UN - Barely made U.S.-News Headlines at the time
Bush's counsel on spying now under close scrutiny
Bush's Twisted 'Victory' Strategy
The Impeachment Chorus
In NBC's informal online poll the Bush/Cheney regime is doing very badly -- some 85% online are voting for Impeachment and the "I word" is being heard ...
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More Spying on Journalists in USA
Israel turns firepower onto Gaza
Spying on Americans Far More Widespread Than Understood
Barron's Calls for Bush/Cheney Impeachment...Almost
Year of Impeachment Ahead? This from the Conservative Barron's. Carefully worded of course...but even so explosive in impact and potential: ...
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Hollywood's Deep Existential Crisis
Chinese Firms Sanctioned For Dealing With Iran
Bush Pursued Spying As Secret Court Pursued Minimal Restraints
Spielberg's 'Prayer For Peace' Gets Poor Reception from Munich Mastermind
On Munich, Abu Daoud and Jewish Justice: Some Considerations From International Law
‘Munich’ — a Risky Move for Spielberg
Munich Olympics Massacre Said to Be PLO Operation
PA Palestinians Manuever to outflank Hamas
More Tension As Abbas Moves to Manipulate and maybe Cancel Palestinian Election
Israeli Military Predicts Hamas Moderation Ahead
Israelis talk of Iranian 'Black Middle East' approaching
Munich Palestinian architect Lambasts Spielberg film
Letter to the Editor in Portland
Abbas and PA Moving Toward Finding Excuse To Cancel Elections Again
Reining in Iran - Senator Frist in LATimes
Sharon Plans to Set Israel's Borders Unilaterally
Former Top Aide To Powell Lambasts Bush Admin
Leading Jordanian Charges Israel With Hariri Assassination
BBC Q&A - Palestinian Elections
Sharon Orders Gaza NO GO 'Buffer Zone' and Ariel Blockade
Fateh coming apart one year after Arafat's demise
BBC In Depth - Israel and Palestinians
Outmanuevered with vote going ahead Israelis 'reconsider'
First they did everything they could to put their own 'VIP' Palestinians in power after the stealth assassination of Yasser Arafat. Then when it look ...
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Bethlehem a 'prison' - patriarch
US Chioce for Palestinian 'PM' Bows Out Afraid of Vote
Big Brother Bush Is Listening
Big Brother Bush Is Listening By Marjorie Cohn t r u t h o u t
Goliath Took It on the Chin in 2005
BBC - Top Stories 2005
Bush bubble burst by troubled 2005
Israel's War Deadline - Iran in the Crosshairs
Israel, and the U.S., are working feverishly now to prepare -- both militarily and politically -- for attacking Iran to destroy that countries militar ...
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In Iran, Arming for Armageddon - Krauthammer in Wash Post
Passionate and testy, the Bush blitz continues
Israel's New Great Wall of the West Bank
Koppel and Brokaw on Meet The Press - 25 Dec 2005
Indeed, the underlying realities and the long oftentimes sordid history of the U.S. in the Middle East since World War II is rarely talked about 'in p ...
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Sharon Declares All Major West Bank Settlements 'Here To Stay'
Israel Expanding Settlements Again Even More
Latest Bush Spying Whopper
Don't Blame the Washington Times For the Osama Bin Laden satellite phone "leak."
Another gross example of Bush misrepresentation at best, outright lying as far as many insiders are concerned. This time it was at his hastily conven ...
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Israeli and Turkey Military Chiefs Dealing With Military Cooperation Against Iran
Why America is powerless to stop Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
Israel and U.S. Now Target Iran
Mahathir Warns: U.S. Scheming on Iran, Syria
Sharon's Brain - and the gone brain-trust of Generals who once checked him
The Israeli diplomat linked to the AIPAC affair is back in Washington
Busting Out Of the Box - Mobile TV
A Munich to Remember...or Not?
O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie
Netanyahu seeks pre-election debate with Sharon, Peretz
Hamas Heading for Majority in Palestinian Legislature
Reform and Conservative leaders in U.S. want Rice praised as broker in Middle East
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood leader calls Holocaust a myth
Hamas Tells Abbas No More Election Delays
Israel's Hamas
Israel Now Controls Gaza Through 'Ariel Siege'
Israeli Lobbyist on Munich
Beilin's 'Hostile Takeover' of Meretz
Bibi wants Debate with Sharon and Peretz
Jews Urge 'Stand Up To Iran' - Abe Foxman
All Arab Security Employees at Israel's Airport to be Fired
Beilin Says He Wants In On Next Sharon-led Govt
MUNICH - Best Movie of the Year According to Slate
Sharon Orders Gaza No Go Zones and More
Ha'aretz adds Bloggist
Iranian Threat Probe Urged In Israel
Bahrain and the Iranian challenge
Iranians Paying Big Dollars for Top American Hoop Players
One Gene Determines Black/White Race
AIPAC Pushes US Further To Deal With Iran
Sharon: Father of All Corruption Says Former High Ranking Israeli Officer
Report: Al-Qaeda plotted Bush assassination
EU and Israel Dictate Who Comes/Goes from Gaza
"A blow to the honor and sovereignty of the Palestinians" is how the Palestinian resistance in Gaza sees the EU role.
Vote propels militant Hamas
Palestinian PM PUlls Out of Vote Facing Humiliation and Defeat
Christmas Behind The Jewish Wall
5th PSM Divest from Israel Conference to be at Georgetown University 17 Feb 2006
Many Sunni Muslims diverting anger from Israel to Iran
The Iranian Threat - Washington Times 23 Dec 2005
Waiting for the rapture in Iran
US Sends Israel 1/2billion more in 'military assistance'
Call it a kind of Christmas present for the Jewish State. And note that the Congress increased it $150million over what the Bush/Cheney Administratio ...
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Iran Denies Getting Russia Nuke Proposal
Bethlehem Christmas 2005
Bethlehem today is a Muslim city with a small Christian minority of about 12% everywhere walled in and essentialy controlled by the Jewish State of Is ...
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Google limits resolution for sensitive Israeli sites
U.S. Assails Conviction of Mubarak Rival
Abbas: We may be forced to reexamine PA election
It was one of those 'trial balloons', and you could say it never even got into the air or that it was the proverbial 'lead balloon'. Whatever Abbas d ...
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Abbas and co-oped PA loosing power fast
Norwegian county boycott of Israel ires Jewish groups
Hamas and Barghouti Now Rule - Not Abbas and the PA
Spielberg's Munich Unleashes Quite Some Debate Among Jews
Searching for Bush's Jesus - Laid in a manger, abridged in the White House
If there were really a Jesus Christ Son of God you can bet he wouldn't stand for George W. Bush proclaiming himself a modern-day deciple.
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Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove, Officials Report
Bush Lied Again Big Time - most publicly at his press conference last week where he insisted the 'domestic spying' was very narrow and limited and onl ...
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Russia deploys new set of strategic nuclear missiles
Russia deploys new set of strategic nuclear missiles Sat Dec 24 2005 12:33:41 ET The chief of Russia's strategic forces on Saturday attended the d ...
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Crude Designs: The Rip-Off of Iraq’s Oil Wealth
Mainstream journalism is the voice of rampant power - go to the WWW instead
Mainstream journalism is the voice of rampant power By John Pilger 11/25/05 "ICH" -- The Indian writer Vandana Shiva has called for an "insurrection ...
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Academia is silent on imperialism, as German universities were during the rise of the Nazis
Exit from the Holy Land
Japan Provides more funds to UNWRA
Japan Provides 'Emergency Aid' for Palestinian Legislators
Oh Bethlehem! What Have They Done to You?
Oh Bethlehem! What Have They Done to You? 22/12/2005 By: Maria C. Khoury** Celebrating another Holy Season to rejoice in the birth of Christ and on ...
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US Congress Message Pushes Palestinians Back to Military Track
Al-Ahram Weekly Editorial: Denuclearise the Entire Middle East
Book Review: Ghada Karmi Chronicles Her Plight as Refugee
PA Crisis After So Many Years of Corruption and Cooptation
Palestinians tell US and Israel 'No Thanks'
24 December 2005 PRESS RELEASE Palestinian Public Opinion Poll No. (18) STRONG MAJORITIES SUPPORT EXTENDING THE "QUITE", COLLECTING ARMS IN THE GAZ ...
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The Document - "A Clean Break" The Jewish Zionist Neocon Statement of Principles in 1997 crafted by Bibi Netanyahu et. al.
Bethlehem 2005
Did Bush Really Tear Up the Constititon - Verbally That Is?
D-Rep Releases Potentially 'Lethal'
D-Rep Releases Potentially 'Lethal' Impeachment Doc Democratic Congressman Releases Potentially 'Lethal Document' That Could Lead To Bush Impeachment ...
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The 2005 P.U.-litzer Prizes
Impeachment Furor
Cheney and His Patsy, Bush,Face Impeachment Furor by Jeffrey Steinberg ``{Impeach}, {impeachment,} and {impeachable} are words now back in promi ...
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More Iraq Lies
Among Washington's Top 50 Journalists Few Women
Wonkett - 50 of Washington's Most Journalists
Washington - Top Political Blogs
Washington's Top 50 Journalists
One Christmas in Washington: The Secret Meeting Between Roosevelt and Churchill That Changed the World
China to put NYTimes Journalist on Trial
Remember our history, emperor warns Japanese as fears grow over China fallout
Stars too fearful and troubled to 'entertain' troops in Iraq
Israel and Iran Prepare for Battle
Neo-Cons, Fundies, Feddies, and Con-Artists
The Anglo-American War of Terror: An Overview
More on Pentagon Spying and 'Able Danger'
Choking and Censoring the Internet Looms
International aid now comes from many countries,not just the West
U.S., CIA, Turkey Connection As Preparations for War With Iran Escalate
Head of CIA Tells Turks to Prepare for Attack on Iran
Israel Iran War Looming
Egypt Jails Opposition Leader
US and EU - 'Dishonest Brokers'
Iran's Nuclear Program - Flashback to 2003
Iraq election; a blessing or a curse to the U.S.?
As usual the Americans use propaganda and spin to mask reality. In this case Iraq is closer to break up and civil war than ever; and the Americans a ...
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Barghouti Wins - Abbas and Old Guard of Fateh Sinking
UN criticizes Israel's exploitation of occupied lands in Palestine, the Golan
THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE ORGANIZATION OF THE ISLAMIC CONFERENCE WARNS IN A COMPREHENSIVE REPORT FROM THE ISRAELI MEASURES AIMING AT JUDAIZING AND CHANGING THE ARAB AND ISLAMIC IDENTITY OF AL QUDS.
The Chomsky Dershowitz Israel-Palestine Debate - Democracy Now 23 Dec
There's more here than meets the eye...or the ear. Dershowitz is on a roll clearly coordinating with Ariel Sharon personally.It's all in anticipation ...
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'Aerial Siege" of Gaza Now By Israel
The Israelis, and the Americans as well, are so addicted to these verbal accrobatics -- the latest is 'Aerial Siege' of Gaza.
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Wanted By Hamas: A Caliphate
Members of Fatah old guard quit parliamentary election
An anti-corruption, anti-U.S., anti-Israeli, movement is gaining steam in the occupied ghettos of fragmented and blockaded Palestine. Whether Abbas ...
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raq war: A Crime against Peace
Israel ready to strike Iran
The Neocons and Holocaust II
Israelis Don't Like Spielberg's Munich
The Holy Grail of Jihad
Dick's IPOD Comes First
U.S. Tapping All International Commuications
Rumsfeld Makes Troop 'Adjustments' in Iraq
"Adjustments" rather than "withdrawals", "?" rather than "insurgents", the American Pentagon chief has become a stickler for symantecs and twisting re ...
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Spielberg Proud of Widows' Take on Film
Osama's Niece Comes Out... A Lot
EXCLUSIVE: Nuclear Monitoring of Muslims Done Without Search Warrants
Iraq's Sham Election
More Damning Revelations About Supreme Court Nominee Alito
Avoiding Nuclear D-Day
The fear-mongers are out now even more than ever. Some day some attack of some kind will come -- that much we've been told for some time is inevitabl ...
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What a 'GOOD YEAR for the AMERICAN PEOPLE' Bush Declares
Alito Argued Strongly for Overturning Roe in 1985
Secret Judges Nervous About Bush/Cheney Extra-Legal Spying and their own roles
State Dept Pulls Propanganda Mag as 'not effective' and too expensive.
Of course Karen Hughes is right about this one - all those millions for something slick but hardly very cosst-effective. But then alot of people are ...
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Bush Letters Congress Trying To Stem The Attacks
Meet Osama's Niece
GLOBAL ENERGY CRISIS Looming Soon
Oil and Beyond Geology Professor Emeritus Kenneth Deffeyes will speak in Washington early in the new you about his recent book entitled "B ...
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America: The Fourth Reich
As Abbas Collapses New Efforts to further 'postpone' elections brewing
Impeach Bush articles and info
'Warrantless' searches not unprecedented
Iraq - Election Defeat for the USA
December 21, 2005 "The election, billed by Mr Bush and Mr Blair, as the birth of a new Iraqi state may in fact prove to be its funeral." Iraq Electio ...
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Japan says China "considerable threat", in new flare-up
Appeals Court Sharply Rebukes Whtie House and Pentagon
Bush’s Abuse of Power Deserves Impeachment
Now we've been saying this for quite some time. Nice to get some company from some of the big boys.
Synthetic Life on the Way
Palestinian: Election May Be Canceled
Abbas' Aides Talk About Delaying Elections
Things get more outrageous, and more dangerous all the time. Abbas, selected and propped up by the U.S., the E.U., and the Israelis, is on thinner i ...
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DICK MORRIS: SPY STORY COULD BITE DEMS
DICK MORRIS: SPY STORY COULD BITE DEMS December 21, 2005 -- Whom did the Valerie Plame leak hurt? Valerie, who went from undercover to on the cover ...
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Why Times Ran Wiretap Story, Defying Bush
Why Times Ran Wiretap Story, Defying Bush By: Gabriel Sherman Date: 12/26/2005 Page: 1 - NYObserver On the afternoon of Dec. 15, New York Times exec ...
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Russia to Back Syria if U.S./Israel Attack
EU threatens to block aid to PA if Hamas wins election
Half of all Israelis favor talks with Hamas to reach peace agreement with Palestinians
EU threatens to block aid to PA if Hamas wins election
China climbs world economic table
Deceptive Jewish 'liberals' twist the Israeli Connection to Iraq
Dramatic split in Fatah blamed on Arafat's 'follied' PA leadership
Clinton Claimed Authority to Order No-Warrant Searches
Clinton ordered warrantless searches in 1995
CLINTON ADMINISTRATION SECRET SEARCH ON AMERICANS -- WITHOUT COURT ORDER CARTER EXECUTIVE ORDER: 'ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE' WITHOUT COURT ORDER Bill ...
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US Electins Bring Iraq Closer to Break-Up and Civil War
Spying Program Included Within US
Lies of the Neocons
Egypt shifts toward the Brotherhood
Iran replaces Iraq as leading threat to Gulf states
Iran replaces Iraq as leading threat to Gulf states DUBAI — Analysts and officials said military procurement by Gulf states has been fueled by the ...
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Analyst: Hizbullah threat equals or exceeds that of Al Qaida
Syria to 'Hide' Iranian Nukes?
This has all the signs of CIA and Mossad disinformation designed to prepare the way for a joint strike against the regimes in both Tehran and Damascus ...
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More Threats and Plots Against Chavez
Iran and Israel Exchange More Threats and Counter-Threats
Making new friends in Damascus?
Sharon's Condition More Problematical Than Admitted
Sharon Leaves Hospital as Medical Staff Speak Out By Ezra HaLevi A7News Tuesday, December 20, 2005 [ for the original Hebrew Maariv article cited: ...
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More Warnings of Iraq Civil War from the 'Coalition'
US Congress Pushed by AIPAC Tells Palestinians Who Can Run in Elections
“The Zionist regime is losing power”
Israel’s state of decay
Lack of U.S. credibility hinders campaign against Iran
Saudis To Pay Billions for New King Abdullah City
30+ Jewish and Palestinian organisations defy EU secrecy
Press release, 20 December 2005 (No embargo; E/32/05)30+ Jewish and Palestinian organisations defy EU secrecyDismayed by the refusal of EU to publish ...
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Impeachment List About Bush
North Korea Says Going Ahead With Nuclear Weapons Program
Googles EARTH View Causing Worries
Stalin's half-man, half-ape super-warriors