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Ten Reasons Why “Save Darfur” Is A PR Scam
By Bruce Dixon

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Among the latest false realities being pushed upon the American people are the simplistic pictures of Black vs. Arab genocide in Darfur, and the proposed solution: a robust US-backed or US-led military intervention in Western Sudan. Increasing scrutiny is being focused upon the “Save Darfur” lobby and the Save Darfur Coalition; upon its founders, its finances, its methods and motivations and its truthfulness. In the spirit of furthering that examination we here present ten reasons to suspect that the “Save Darfur” campaign is a PR scam to justify US intervention in Africa

Why American Troops Can’t Go Home
By Michael Schwartz

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As long as that government is determined to install a friendly, anti-Iranian regime in Baghdad, one that is hostile to “foreigners,” including all jihadists, but welcomes an ongoing American military presence as well as multinational development of Iraqi oil, the American armed forces aren’t going anywhere, not for a long, long time; and no relative lull in the fighting — temporary or not — will change that reality. This is the Catch-22 of Bush administration policy in Iraq

A Tenuous ‘Peace’ In Al-Anbar
By Ali al-Fadhily

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A semblance of calm belies an undercurrent of violence, detentions and fear across Iraq’s volatile al-Anbar province

The First Days Of Petro Collapse
By Peter Goodchild

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Without hydrocarbons, the darkness closes in, literally and metaphorically. Yet instead of dealing with the issue in a realistic manner, we sit around and hope that magic and superstition will solve the problems

The Iran Threat
By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich

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No doubt the perceived threat from Iran will diminish should Tehran yield to Washington, generously delivers its oil to Israel to better enable it to continue its expansionist policies, and participate in human rights abuses in the name of freedom and democracy vs. state sovereignty. But even if the regime in Tehran succumbs, will the people who have accomplished so much under such extraordinary circumstances, surrender?

Distorting Fascism To Demonize Iran
By Ismael Hossein-zadeh

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In their frantic drive to pave the way for a military strike against Iran, leading figures in the neoconservative pro-Israel lobby have embarked on a vicious campaign of demonizing that country by comparing it with the early years of Nazi Germany and its President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, with Hitler. These champions of war and militarism are the same trigger happy characters who helped orchestrate the criminal war against Iraq on the basis of ghastly lies and criminal fabrications of evidence

The Palestine That We Are Struggling For
By Jamal Juma’

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The gulf between the Authority and the Palestinian people is becoming increasingly obvious. Indeed the whole range of Palestinian political and social forces joined in condemning the repression on Tuesday. The choice for the Authority is clear: either to go along with the dictates of the US and the Occupation; or to radically alter their course, to return to the people and remember that they are leaders of the Palestinian national struggle. The grassroots movement against normalisation with the occupiers will continue to grow. Resistance will continue as the Palestinian people assert their fundamental rights

Same Old, Same Old –Israel Wins Again
By Jim Miles

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As I sit and read the announcements from today’s first discussions from Annapolis, all I can see is another dismal failure for peace and another year long “negotiation” process that like Oslo, Camp David, the ‘road map’ all lead to the same place. That place, as so clearly denoted by the late Tanya Rinehart, is nowhere

It’s The Land, Stupid. The Land
By David Truskoff

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The Annapolis Agreement renews the goal of two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security. Now, there is a new Idea. The new idea that has been rejected time and time again by Israel when the right of return is injected. The issue of “ Greater Israel” hangs like a ghost over all the so-called “Peace conferences”, but is never discussed

The Responsibility To Protect Self-Determination
By Cameron Hunt

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29 November 2007, marked sixty years since the decision by the UN General Assembly to partition historic Palestine into “Independent Arab and Jewish States and the Special International Regime for the City of Jerusalem”; yet the Palestinian nation continues to be denied its right to national self-determination. If ICISS has its way, and if the so-called ‘international community’ continues to do nothing to uphold the UN Charter, it could well be ‘the right to national self-determination’ that is massacred

Counterpunching The CounterPuncher
By Jeff Berg

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Counterpunch has for a long time been a very important voice of reason in a world gone mad. This is however very much going to change if you personally do not begin to appreciate what has become the zeitgeist of our age. I say this because the fact of the matter is that your grasp of resource geology and atmospheric chemistry is as weak as your tongue is tart and your sense of justice is strong. If this does not change it will doom Counterpunch to being no more than a side show I’m afraid

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