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Feed The World? We Are Fighting A Losing Battle, UN Admits
By Julian Borger

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The United Nations warned yesterday that it no longer has enough money to keep global malnutrition at bay this year in the face of a dramatic upward surge in world commodity prices, which have created a “new face of hunger”

Confessions Of A Gitmo Guard
By Debbie Nathan

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A psychiatrist who has treated former military personnel at Guantánamo prison camp is telling a story of prisoner torture and guard suicide there, recounted to him by a National Guardsman who worked at Guantánamo just after it opened

US Military Announces 10,000 More Post-”Surge” Troops In Iraq
By Naomi Spencer

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On Monday, the US military announced that the number of troops in Iraq following the “surge” begun last year will be some 10,000 more than pre-surge levels. What was originally presented as a temporary increase of US occupation forces will result in the indefinite presence of 140,000 US soldiers in Iraq

Baquba Losing Life – And Hope
By Ahmed Ali & Dahr Jamail

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Life has been bad enough in Diyala province north of Baghdad after prolonged violence, unemployment and loss of all forms of normal living. What could be worse now is the loss of hope that anything will ever be better

The Most Wanted List
By Noam Chomsky

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If, for a moment, we can adopt the perspective of the world, we might ask which criminals are “wanted the world over.”

To Hang Or Not To Hang?
By Bal Patil

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In India death penalty is awarded in the rarest of the rare cases. As a protagonish of the abolition of capital punishment I would like to reproduce my comments in my article “To Hang or Not To Hang” published in The Illustrated Weekly of India, dated. 18.02.1979 which I venture to think are still relevant originally published about three decades back because judicial perspective or the lack of it has not changed over the course of three decades

Taming The Chameleon
By Mir Adnan Aziz

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The United State’s George Walker Bush, Japan’s Shinzo Abe, Spain’s Jose Mario Anzar, Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi, Britain’s Tony Blair, Australia’s John Howard and our very own Caudillo, Pervez Musharraf. It would be hara-kiri for those recently elected not to learn from the immense political capital floundered by these seemingly unflappable and larger than life ‘warriors’. This so because they forgot that they derived strength from their very own people and not an unquenchable personal hubris

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