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Bhutto Assassination Heightens Threat Of US Intervention In Pakistan
By Bill Van Auken

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The mass popular revulsion over the Bhutto assassination has unleashed intense instability in Pakistan. A further unraveling of the political situation could well draw the US military into direct involvement in the attempt to suppress popular upheavals in a country of 165 million people

A Tragedy Born Of Military Despotism And Anarchy
By Tariq Ali

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The assassination of Benazir Bhutto heaps despair upon Pakistan. Now her party must be democratically rebuilt

Benazir Bhutto: A Victim Of American Meddling
By Ahmed Quraishi

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We have warned about this: Blatant U.S. support for Mrs. Bhutto is an open invitation for anti-U.S. terrorists to kill her. She knew this but played along. Despite the image of a daring democratic warrior, she never would have returned to Pakistan if not for Washington’s nudge. Just this week, she openly supported American accusations against Pakistan about ‘wasting’ $ 5 billion in U.S. aid, allegations that drew unusually strong rebuke from her own country. With her death, Washington’s plans for regime-change in Pakistan lie in complete tatters

Benazir Bhutto Faced Death With Courage
By Mirza A. Beg

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Pakistan is again at fateful cross roads. It is sixty years late, but not too late, because what else can a people or a nation do, but to take up the fallen standard and persevere. Pakistanis can reject the politics of fear imposed by the quick-fix promises of military dictatorships. They should take up the difficult long journey of slowly building civil institutions of imperfect political give and take to reach an internal cohesion and become a nation at peace with itself and its neighbors

BhuttoAssassination: Pakistan’s Tragedy
By G. Asgar Mitha

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It is doubtful that Pakistan and the world will ever know for a long time who assassinated Benazir Bhutto but we may come to know, not today but certainly some time in the future, that there was a conspiracy. Ms. Bhutto came to Pakistan to participate in the elections because it was in the US interests. She is dead, just like her killer, so we will never know what those interests were

Peak Oil And Dunbar’s Number
By Peter Goodchild

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Within modern capitalism there is no solution to the problem of oil depletion. Oil energy cannot be replaced with the equivalent amount of “alternative” energy in the required time, so the consequences of oil depletion will be disastrous. Those disastrous consequences are beyond the range of the normal or acceptable issues of political debate. No political contender can win votes by saying that the world is coming to an end. The “end” may be real, but there is no political mechanism to deal with it in the over-crowded and overly complex modern state

A Global Warming Message For Christmas 2008
By Dan Bloom

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Santa, I have a question for you. About this global warming thing. I keep hearing my mom and dad talk about it. So I want to know: will there be a North Pole for my great-grandchildren in 2100 or will you have moved your operations to maybe somewhere along the Arctic Circle d-o-t-t-e-d l-i-n-e at latitude 66°33'?

Tasers, Pepper Spray And Arrests In The Struggle
For Affordable Housing In New Orleans
By Bill Quigley

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In a remarkable symbol of the injustices of post-Katrina reconstruction, hundreds of people were locked out of a public New Orleans City Council meeting addressing demolition of 4500 public housing apartments. Some were tasered, many pepper sprayed and a dozen arrested

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