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US Plans Military Strikes On PKK Bases
By Peter Symonds

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With the Turkish military poised to strike the guerrilla bases of the separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, Washington and London are engaged in frantic diplomatic activity to prevent a Turkish intervention that would further destabilise the US occupation of Iraq. However, as the Chicago Tribune reported yesterday, the Bush administration is also drawing up plans for military attacks on the PKK, either by US forces or jointly with the Turkish army

The Imperial Presidency
By Ralph Nader

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To what level of political insanity has this Washington Caesar descended? Only two countries can start World War III-Russia and the United States. Is Bush saying that if Russia, presently opposed to military action against Iran, persists with its position, Bush may risk World War III? If not, why is this law-breaking warmonger, looking for another war for American GIs to fight, while his military-age daughters bask in the celebrity lime light?

The Nuke Deal Is Dead
By Vijay Prashad

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The short-term battle was won by the Communists, who led the opposition to the deal and winnowed regional parties away from the Congress and toward their position. The Communists’ stance is that the nuclear deal (set in motion in 2005) is only one part of a wider embrace between the Indian and US governments, and between Indian and US-based corporations

Christian/Jewish Fascism Awareness Week
By Margaret Kimberley

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Right wing propagandist David Horowitz has declared October 22nd through October 26th Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week.The current Horowitz obsession is focused on Islam and on keeping Americans whipped into a frenzy of fear and hatred against all Muslims. The very term Islamo-Fascism is a cynical creation of neoconservatives, designed to insure blind adherence to the Bush war on terror scheme

Freedom Struggle, Violence And State
By Firdous Syed

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“Freedom struggles” all over the world are facing a typical predicament today, a Catch-22 situation put forth by the fact that a monolithic modern state which understands the language of violence only, is, at the same time, helped by a violent campaign to obliterate the legitimacy of a “freedom struggle”

The Israel/Palestine Question
By Jim Miles

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Ilan Pappe’s highly revised second edition of The Israel/Palestine Question offers the reader a very instructive read on changing historical perspectives about Israel/Palestine within one over-riding theme – land tenure and population control

Foreclosure USA
By Joel S. Hirschhorn

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We the people once owned our democracy. We elected “representatives” to run it for US. Have you noticed? Somewhere along the way we lost our democracy

Peace Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning
By David Swanson

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Maybe it’s time that we grew up as a nation. Maybe it’s time we joined hands, locked elbows, and forced our Congress to impeach, not for oral sex, but to restore our Bill of Rights. Maybe it’s time we made proper use of the positive force of nonviolent action. Maybe it’s time we stopped pledging to flags, praying to lords, saluting commanders, obeying authorities, and bowing before our televisions. Maybe it’s time we shut down the Washington crime machine under the banner “No War, No Warming”

Needs And Aspirations Of Ethnically Cleansed
Northern Muslims Of Sri Lanka
By Shahul Hasbullah

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The highlights of the Fact Finding – 2007

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