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Violence Erupts in Kenya After MP Murdered, Power Outages Across Countinent
Adding to tensions already stretched to the breaking point and beyond, a second Opposition member of Parliament was killed today by a police officer. Despite police insistence that the murder was not politically...Obama the Interventionist by Robert Kagan
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Hanging crackdown in Iran
"Surge in public executions is a push to silence political activists, say critics
Robert Tait in Tehran
Sunday August 19, 2007
The Observer
Nikoubazl/Reuters
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"Since the Iranian nuclear standoff began in earnest, the diplomatic and media exchanges between the United States and the Islamic Republic have been tinged with the unsettling suspicion that war is all but...Fool Us Twice? From Iraq to Iran
"It's déja vu. This time the Bush gang wants war with Iran. Following a carefully orchestrated strategy, they have ratcheted up the "threat" from Iran, designed to mislead us into a new war four years after they misled us into Iraq. Like its insistence that Iraq had WMD, the...Criticism Mounts of U.S. Generals in Iraq
"Top warmakers like Gen. John Abizaid have thus far escaped blame for the failures in Iraq. But that's starting to change. The Bush administration's recent shift in strategy on the Iraq War â ending talk about...
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