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For the sake of democracy dont attack Iran

July 12, 2008

The analysis published by Seymour Hersh in The New Yorker recently [“Preparing the battlefield: The Bush administration steps up its secret moves against Iran”] is revealing in a number of respects regarding the position of the...

EDITORIAL: Ending the war for oil

July 11, 2008

In 2002, this newspaper issued a bumper sticker that read, “No War for Oil.” Events show how “on target” we were. Following the U.S. invasion of Iraq, U.S. oil company representatives were installed as “advisers” in...

Questions about the India-U.S. nuclear deal

July 11, 2008 By Teresa Albano

The drama is rising over a proposed U.S.-India nuclear pact. India’s left-wing parties, which hold 60 seats in Parliament, are united in opposition to the deal and have managed to thwart it for months. But they...

U.S. funding terror groups in Iran

July 4, 2008 By Susan Webb

As worry mounts that the same right-wingers who got us into the Iraq war are now pushing for war with Iran, journalist Seymour Hersh has revealed that the Bush administration is supporting terrorist groups in Iran...

In Afghanistan, Taliban grows stronger

July 2, 2008

On June 27, nearly seven years after United States and NATO troops ousted the Taliban government of Afghanistan, the Pentagon issued a comprehensive report to Congress that declared “the Taliban has regrouped and formed a resilient...