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How Guantanamo Can Be Closed: More Advice for Barack Obama

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Syria, Mohamed Jawad, US Supreme Court, Yemen, Tunisia, Terrorism, Judge Ricardo Urbina, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Salim Hamdan, Uzbekistan, Military Commissions Act, Omar Khadr, Uighurs, Barack Obama, Habeas Corpus, Military Commissions, Guantanamo Uighurs, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Enemy Combatants, Obama Guantanamo, Albania, Ali Hamza Al-Bahlul, Libya, Huzaifa Parhat, President Bush, The Guantanamo Files, Iraq, China, Closing Guantanamo, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Several prominent human rights and legal organizations launched a campaign in Berlin on November 10, aimed at persuading European countries to accept cleared prisoners from Guant�namo.

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The Dead Core of McCain's Republican Party

Paul Jenkins | Posted 09.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Transportation, Immigration, Iraq, Race, Democratic Party, Sarah Palin, Stem Cell Research, Iran, Military, Phil Gramm, Carly Fiorina, Technology, Republican Party, African-American Issues, Abortion, Halliburton, Science, Free Trade, Hispanic Issues, Texas, Uzbekistan, Pennsylvania, Capitalism, Barack Obama, College, Oil, Health Care, Scranton, Energy, Gay Marriage, Economy, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

Now that it has thoroughly discredited the market economy it was ostensibly pushing, the Republican Party is left with no clear, logical economic agenda.

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Rumors Of The Next Cold War

Judah Freed | Posted 08.19.2008 | Home

Read More: Europe, Pakistan, Czechoslovakia, Balance of World Power, Hitler, Czarist Empire, Germany, Washington Post, Natural Gas, Saakashvili, Turkey, Communist Revolution, Czarist Russia, Russia Georgia War, Medvedev, Machiavelli, Tajikistan, Fall of the Soviet Empire, India, Trans-Caucasus Pipeline, The Washington Post, Russian Empire, Free Markets, Nazi Germany, Caspian Sea, World History, Oil Pipeline, Market Reforms, Napoleon, Azeri Chirag Gunashli Oil Fields, Putin, Iran, Kgb, Nato, 1917, Financial TImes, Balance of Power, Ukraine, Missile Defense Shield, Russia, Collapse of the Soviet Empire, Caucasus Mountains, World Power, Kazakhstan, Mikhail Saakashvili, Yeltsin, Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, Afghanistan, Mediterranean Sea, South Ossetia, Kremlin, Uzbekistan, Mt. Elbrus, Black Sea, France, Czar, Moscow, Georgia, Oil, Soviet Empire, New York Times, Realpolitik, Alexander Yeltsin, China. 1917 Communist Revolution, Cease-Fire, Baku, Shevardnadze, Turkmenistan, Ceyhan, Kygyzstan, Azerbaijan, Sudetenland, Tbilisi, Machiavellian, Balkan, Home News
Judah Freed

No matter how subtly the conquest happens, Russian control of Georgia would amount to an historic shift in the balance of power -- especially as long as the world economy is fueled by oil.

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Senator McCain, Please Define "Free Nation"

Vanessa Edwards Foster | Posted 08.14.2008 | Home

Read More: Iraq War, Russia, Politics, John McCain, John McCain 2008, Gaza, Zimbabwe, Egypt, Uzbekistan, 2008 Presidential Race, Iran, Israel, John McCain Foreign Policy, Russia Georgia War, Foreign Policy, Home News
Vanessa Edwards Foster

Iraq used to hold elections -- before the American invasion. Does that mean America was an aggressor on a "free nation"? McCain's simplistic tough talk is just Bush-policy in the making.

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Cashing in on the War on Terror

William Fisher | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Eisenhower, Egypt, Military Aid, Human Rights, Indonesia, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, War on Terrorism, Rendition, Department of Defense, David Petraeus, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Defense, Petraeus, Ryan Crocker, General Petraeus, Petraeus Iraq, Crocker, Politics News
William Fisher

On the day Petraeus and Crocker testify before Congress on Iraq, the ghost of Dwight D. Eisenhower will be hovering in the wings. And he won't be smiling.

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Why Voters Reelect Thugs

Lionel Beehner | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Elections, Democracy, Opposition, Kenya, Georgia, Saakashvili, Uzbekistan, Politics News
Lionel Beehner

What's worrying is that the ensuing violence in Kenya could leave Kenyans -- and other voters in illiberal democracies -- with the impression that a closely contested race is just not worth it.

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