January 03, 2005 | 22 Dhu-l-Qidah 1425 Hijriah
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The ClipboardYes, You Must Pull Out - But Also Pay for the Damage
Let's start with the idea that the US is helping to provide security. On the contrary, the presence of US troops is provoking violence on a daily basis. The truth is that as long as the troops remain, the country's...
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The ClipboardA 'Long War' Against Whom?
But the challenges posed by the Sept. 11 attacks could be viewed quite differently. Indeed, investigations of the terror attacks have revealed that al-Qaeda's daring blow was somewhat a lucky punch that landed in part because the newly arrived Bush...
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The ClipboardIraq Torture Investigators Reveal Scores of New Cases
An American legal team interviewing men and women formerly held in US-run prisons throughout Iraq says new cases of abuse and torture have continued to stream in since an initial fact-finding mission to the country in August. Michigan-based attorney Shereef...
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The ClipboardThe Social Security Fear Factor
As it often does with dissenting professional opinion, the administration is ignoring the actuaries. But that doesn't alter the facts or common sense. If the $10 trillion figure is essentially bogus, so is the claim that Social Security is in...
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The ClipboardPlan to Keep Detainees in Jail for Life Criticized by Senators
Both Sen. Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.), the Foreign Relations Committee chairman, and Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, suggested that the proposal, reported in Sunday's Washington Post, was unconstitutional. "There must be...
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veiled4allahcontext
Juan Cole looks at the importance of context: As of 1/1, Reuters was reporting these responses to the tsunami from Middle Eastern countries: --Qatar, $25 million --Saudi Arabia, $10 million --Kuwait, $2.1 million --Algeria, $2 million --Libya, $2 million --UAE,...
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A Quranic Journal
A Quranic JournalSurah at-Tahrim ayah 4
In tatuba ila Allahi faqad saghat qulubukuma wa in tazahara 'alayhi fa inna Allaha huwa mawlahu wa jibrilu wa salihu al-muminina wa al-malaikatu ba'da dhalika zahirun If you two turn in repentance to Allah, then your hearts are so...
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The ClipboardThe Reality of Red-State Fascism
I'm actually not surprised at this. It has been building for some time. If you follow hate-filled sites such as Free Republic, you know that the populist right in this country has been advocating nuclear holocaust and mass bloodshed for...
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The ClipboardUS plans permanent Guantanamo jails
The United States is preparing to hold terrorism suspects indefinitely without trial, replacing the Guantanamo Bay prison camp with permanent prisons in the Cuban enclave and elsewhere, it was reported yesterday. The new prisons are intended for captives the Pentagon...
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The ClipboardWashington's New Year War Cry: Party On!
The ethos could hardly have been more different during the World War II so frequently invoked by Mr. Bush. As David Brinkley recounted in his 1988 history, "Washington Goes to War," the Roosevelt administration's first big push "was a tremendous...
