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IRAQ'''''Everything Iraq, from About Iraq to Weapons Iraq.
Nerves stretched to breaking point as Baghdad clings to normal life  Every two days for the past two years more civilians have died in Iraq than in the July 7 London bombings.
At least 15 die in Iraq attacks : Three members of an Iraqi provincial council were assassinated in Baghdad as they headed to an internet cafe in the western neighborhood of Khadhra.
Soldiers in Iraq report low morale Asked about this, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told a

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Confidential: [i] Use of Force: [a] Security Council Resolutions [b] Self-defence [c] Humanitarian Intervention
DEBASING WOMEN : The New York Times notes in an editorial:'If devout Muslims become terrorists because they believe Western civilization is depraved, does it make sense to try to unnerve them by having Western women behave like trollops? Yet those appear to be the operative theories at Guantánamo Bay, where military jailers developed the 'aggressive' interrogations that were later exported to the Abu Ghraib prison.' [New York Times Editorial, July 15, 2005]
ANDREW SULLIVAN'S COMMENTARY : Sullivan, who is English, was shocked to find out how many Americans approve of torture, as long as it is some one else who is being tortured, and as long as someone is available to say that it really isn’t torture at all. America, Sullivan contends, is not what it used to be. [Andrew Sullivan's blog]
Abortion war after Bush picks...Roberts
Camp counsellors charged in teen's death: 6 Counselors at Ga. Camp Charged With Murder in Boy's Death; Was Restrained After Confrontation

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Weather

Possible floods from Emily threaten northeast Mexico
Beijing power crunch prompts shutdown

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Australian troops not to replace British forces in Iraq : Australian Defense Minister Robert Hill on Thursday said Australia will not send more troops to Iraq to replace departing British troops.
London Mayor Blames West : "If, at the end of the First World War, we had done what we promised the Arabs, which was to let them be free and have their own governments, and kept out of Arab affairs, and just bought their oil, rather than feeling we had to control the flow of oil, I suspect this wouldn't have arisen."
Irish Treaty from Hell, by Daniel Fey: Treaty gives CIA powers over Irish citizens and will be allowed to interrogate Irish citizens on Irish soil in total secrecy, under an agreement signed between Ireland and the US last week. The deal was condemned yesterday by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) as 'an appalling signal of how the rights of Irish citizens are considered by the minister when engaging in international relations'. The ICCL said 'it appeared to go far beyond even what has been agreed between EU countries.'
London attacked again: Police confirm four blasts
Business
China not revaluing its currency
Oil prices rise on strong Chinese data ahead of US stocks release: on news that China's economic growth was gathering pace, while traders anticipated a fall in US crude inventories owing to hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico. | 07-20-2005, 12h36 LONDON (AFP)
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How much does Google know about you?
Don't panic! But the future of the Internet is at stake
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Science & Health
Decoding traumatic memory patterns at the cellular level
Breast Chancer Risk Linked To Sleep Patterns
Saving our children from nature deficit disorder - forwarded by Eric G
Double Dose Of Diabetes Baffles : The theory: Overweight people need more insulin to process glucose regardless of whether they're insulin-resistant yet. So, perhaps obesity overworks the pancreas until it wears out, Pittsburgh's Becker suggests. Or perhaps obesity accelerates the autoimmune destruction — meaning someone genetically predisposed to Type 1 diabetes might not have gotten it had they stayed thin.
Teflon risks 'hidden for 20yrs' : 05:36 (AEST) A SERIES of lawsuits filed in US courts today against DuPont claim the chemical giant covered up for decades health risks of nonstick Teflon used in cookware around the world.
AIDS strikes some countries' ability to govern
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From No Man's Land to Displacement - Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches
READERS WRITE: - Who's Watching the Watch List?
World

American expelled in anti-west cleanup
Rumsfeld: Russia helping to arm China : China is gaining important new military capabilities from Russia and other countries, US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has said, arguing that a European arms embargo against the Chinese should be kept in place.
Vodka and the Demographic Crisis - The collapse of the Soviet Union was accompanied by a demographic crisis in Russia when birth rates plummeted and death rates skyrocketed. Fertility fell from 2.0 to 1.3 children per woman while the death rate grew from 10.4 deaths per 1,000 people in 1986 to 15.7 in 1994, a catastrophic and abnormal level. By June 2005, there were 16.9 deaths per 1,000 people, a mortality rate found only in African countries suffering from the HIV/AIDS epidemic. ....
The 7/7 London Bombings: How to Set Up a Patsy
Niger children starving to death- Children are dying of starvation in feeding centres in Niger, where 3.6m people face severe food shortages, aid agencies have warned.
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Deep Background: STRATCOM Preparing for Attack on Iran: As in the case of Iraq, the response is not conditional on Iran actually being involved in the act of terrorism directed against the United States. Several senior Air Force officers involved in the planning are reportedly appalled at the implications of what they are doing - that Iran is being set up for an unprovoked nuclear attack- but no one is prepared to damage his career by posing any objections.
Many killed in Afghan fighting
Koizumi wants to end rift with N.Korea
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Commentaries
John Yoo's: 'Terrorists Gone Wild'- John Yoo, a “visiting scholar” at the neocon criminal organization the American Enterprise Institute, suggests “our intelligence agencies create a false terrorist organization” as a way to fight against another false terrorist organization, al-Qaeda.
Economic Injustice: America's New Leading Export- by Jason Miller

Revised: Distinguishing Reality From Fantasy, Truth From Propaganda - by Eric G

Discourse & Dissent :Thoughts on America

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