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Excerpt: The Bush Regime's "terrorist" protection schemes have reached the height of total incompetence and utter absurdity. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, a private organization that defends the US Constitution that inattentive Americans neglect, there are now one million names on the "terrorist" watch list.

Excerpt: For years, "oil" and "Iraq" couldn't make it into the same sentence in mainstream coverage of the invasion and occupation of that country. Recently, that's begun to change, but "oil" and "the Pentagon" still seldom make the news together.

Excerpt: LONDON -- Medical reports seen by IPS appear to confirm the testimony of IPS Gaza correspondent Mohammed Omer of physical abuse at the hands of Israelis last month.

When it comes to hosting congressional delegations, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad likes to think of itself as the eHarmony of Iraq -- lawmakers outline what they're looking for, and officials try to set up the perfect date.

CQPolitics.com - It may be Barack obama's consistency on Iraq policy, not the charge of flip-flopping, that puts him in the greatest political peril.

Excerpt: The conventional wisdom is that the US government is taking a new tack when it comes to confronting the Iranians. As a recent piece on Breitbart.com -- and dutifully posted by Matt Drudge -- put it: "The bush administration is changing course on Iran in its final months. The hope is that engagement can jolt a stagnant effort to resolve concerns about Tehran's disputed nuclear program where war drums could not."

Summary: Mottaki—RiceMr Bush’s decision to send the number three in the State Department, William Burns, to attend talks with Iran in Geneva at the weekend caused howls of outrage that were heard all the way from the State Department’s sanctuary of Foggy Bottom to the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue. A parallel initiative to reopen the interest’s section of the American embassy in Tehran, which would be the first return of a diplomatic presence on Iranian territory since 1979, has also received a cool response from neo-conservatives. source: The Independentread more

Five slain soldiers were serving with the joint United nations-African Union peacekeeping force in Sudan's Darfur region

Former Algerian president Ahmed Ben Bella is latest Arab leader to question charges against President Omar al-Bashir ahead of Arab League summit on issue this weekend

Military spokesman says Pakistan has shared coordinates of all border checkpoints with US-led coalition forces in afghanistan before June 10 attack