International

                
  • Report: 655,000 Iraqis dead

    Report: 655,000 Iraqis dead

    October 21, 2006 By Susan Webb

    A new study by U.S. and Iraqi public health doctors estimates that approximately 600,000 Iraqis have been killed in the violence that the U.S. unleashed with its March 2003 invasion. An additional estimated 55,000 deaths from...

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  • Ahmadinejad and Bush: twin deceivers

    Ahmadinejad and Bush: twin deceivers

    October 13, 2006 By Nima Kamran

    Iran’s nuclear issue has preoccupied the international community for more than two years. Meanwhile, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s administration is tightening its oppressive, suffocating grip on every aspect of life in Iran. Workers, women, youth and...

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  • EDITORIAL: 600,000-plus Iraqis dead

    EDITORIAL: 600,000-plus Iraqis dead

    October 13, 2006

    A just-released report by U.S. and Iraqi public health researchers estimates that 600,000 Iraqi civilians have died in violence there since President George W. Bush ordered U.S. troops to invade in March 2003. In the study,...

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  • Fighting to close the torture college

    Fighting to close the torture college

    October 13, 2006

    The School of the Americas (SOA) is a combat training school for Latin American soldiers, located in Fort Benning, Ga. It has trained over 64,000 Latin American soldiers since 1946. After the Pentagon was forced to...

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  • Bushs reckless, imperial foreign policy

    Bushs reckless, imperial foreign policy

    October 13, 2006

    A March 2006 Council on Foreign Relations task force report on Russia, co-chaired by Jack Kemp and John Edwards, recommended the United States adopt a Cold War approach toward Russia. According to the task force, Russian...

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