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IRAQ '' 'Everything Iraq, from About Iraq to Weapons Iraq.
Shooting deaths on the rise in Baghdad: A total of 1,100 corpses were received in July, a sharp increase from the previous record of 879 in June, and far exceeding the morgue's 10-a-day capacity.
Five Iraqi soldiers killed in car bomb attack in Fallujah: A car bomb blew up at a joint US and Iraqi forces patrol in eastern Fallujah on Wednesday, killing five Iraqi soldiers, a medical source said.
US tempers Iraq pullout predictions.In a blunt assessment of the situation in Iraq, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff has said that 'nobody knows' when the Iraqi government would be ready to provide for its own security.
The gates of hell: The gates of hell are now wide open - thanks to U.S. invasion - and their fires have enveloped almost everything in our country. There is no electricity, no water, no fuel, no food rations, no security, no sewage .
Aussies kept gung-ho US in check : AUSTRALIAN and British military legal advisers frequently had to "red card" more trigger-happy US forces to limit civilian casualties during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, according to one of the Australian advisers.
Counting The Dead : MOSUL - Fifteen people were killed in separate incidents over the past 24 hours. BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber killed six people and wounded 14. BAGHDAD - A mortar bomb exploded, killing a traffic policeman. ISKANDARIYA - Two civilians were killed as gunmen shot at their car.
Coffins And Empire :  This war cannot be won by America. Those pathetic Iraqis just will not stand and fight toe to toe. For some strange reason, the Iraqis are fighting to win, not to meet American wishes and expectations. Every day that Americans are in Iraq fighting the insurgency is another day that George Bush is losing ground.
U.S. News
Looking Back at L.B.J. by William Fisher
Watching the U.S. economy crumble Good News! Soon You'll No Longer Need An Expensive College Education to Work in the US
Mars spaceship launch scrubbed

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US contingency plan for a Venezuela oil cut off- I love the way they talk about Venezuela's 'political instability'. The reality is that when you try to overthrow the leader of a nation, he is likely to hold a grudge, and that grudge will be an impediment to getting a discount on what that nation sells.
Russian bird flu advances: Kazach's say deadly
Questions marks over Annan, Boutros-Ghali: LIKE any political institution the UN has never been perfect, but for 60 years its most senior officials have been respected for their good intentions and personal integrity.
Not any more. The release of the third interim report of the Volcker commission's inquiry into the $US64billion oil-for-food scandal shows that when it comes to graft and corruption, the UN's top brass can succumb just as readily as anyone else.
Businesss
Dollar Falls on Retail Sales Report, Expected Wider Trade Gap: Aug. 11 (Bloomberg) - The dollar fell against the yen and euro after a government report showed U.S. retail sales in July grew less than economists predicted.
Airlines Face Growing Fuel Shortage Risk While fliers haven't yet had to add that problem to the list of headaches associated with air travel, it may not be far away. Airports in Arizona, California, Florida and Nevada recently came within a few days _ and at times within hours _ of running out of jet fuel.
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Gulf of Mexico mystery: Huge Dieoff - Nothing Alive To 20 Miles Off FL West Coast
Oil-for-food inquiry claims Sevan took $150,000 in payments


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Ed Koch pimps the 'War of Civilizations' angle. : 'They are coming to get us, unless you get them first. Really. Honest!'
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Scientist: Men do have trouble hearing women : Men who are accused of never listening by women now have an excuse -- women's voices are more difficult for men to listen to than other men's, a report said.
There is no truth to the rumor that beer is a cure.
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Welcome to America : U.S. Defends Detentions at Airports : Foreign citizens who change planes at airports in the United States can legally be seized, detained without charges, deprived of access to a lawyer or the courts, and even denied basic necessities like food, lawyers for the government said in Brooklyn federal court yesterday.
Venezuela's Chavez Presents Land Titles to Indigenous Groups: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez presented property titles to several indigenous groups Tuesday, recognizing their ownership of ancestral lands and reversing what he says have been centuries of injustice.
Financial Times: US losing control in Latin America: The article provides a fascinating window into the international financial communities' sober assessment of the floundering corporate agenda in Latin America -- an analysis not altogether different from our own.
Halt uranium conversion 'without delay', Russia tells Iran...'We think that Iran could definitely maintain the moratorium without any damage to the realization of its nuclear energy programme,' the statement added.
One US soldier and at least 16 militants died  when insurgents attacked a patrol of Afghan and US troops in the latest clash to rock Afghanistan ahead of key elections, the American military said.
Middle East|Asia

Has India sacrificed at America's altar?
S. Korea: N.Korea has right to peaceful nuclear program, a view conflciting with Washington in its disagreement with the hard-line Pyongyang regime that has snagged disaramament talks.There was no immediate reaction from the Bush administration. On Wednesday, Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill reafirmed the U.S. opposition to allowing N.Korea to retain a nuclear capability for civilian use.
A Childish Theory  It is none of our business what forms of government other countries have... by Charley Reese
There is now more terror, not less; the Middle East is less stable, not more stable; and we are not going to end up with a democracy in Iraq. We're going to end up instead with a theocracy aligned with Iran, a civil war or another authoritarian government - or the entire series of bad outcomes, one after another.
Vermin and Souvenirs: How to justify a nuclear attack  Mickey Z.. ICH
Because Japan chose to invade several colonial outposts of the West, the war in the Pacific laid bare the inherent racism of the colonial structure. In the United States and Britain, the Japanese were more hated than the Germans. The race card was played to the hilt through a variety of Allied propaganda methods. Spurred on by a growing Chinese lobby and vocal American trade protectionists wary of inexpensive Japanese goods, the campaign would eventually help cajole the American public into a pro-war, anti-Japan position. By 1938, as historian Michael C.C. Adams writes, polls showed more Americans favored military aid to China than to Britain or France. Even more so than the Third Reich, Japan was the U.S. villain of choice.
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