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January 02, 2008 02:44 PM EST --
The confusion that seems to be emanating
from the accounts of Banazir Bhutto's death
does not make President General Musharraf's
government come out looking very solid.
The . . .
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January 02, 2008 02:34 PM EST --
Banazir Bhutto's demise at the hands of assassins
can only tip the balance in Pakistan dangerously
away from democracy - the military may well
dispense with both elections (or perhaps . . .
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January 02, 2008 02:22 PM EST --
Pakistan's "democracy" took a severe blow today with
the killing by suicide bomber (or a shooter AND a suicide
bomber, reports are sketchy still) that brought her DOA
. . .
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September 23, 2007 05:34 PM EDT --
According to the pro Med medical alert site -
ProMED-mail <promed@promed.isid.harvard.edu>-
there are some 7,000 reported cases of cholera
within Iraq, with the first case reported in
Baghdad on . . .
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September 19, 2007 03:09 PM EDT --
The World Without Us, written by Alan
Weisman, was published 1 September, and
I had acquired and read it by 7 September
after hearing Weisman interviewed that
day on NPR's "Talk of the Nation." . . .
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September 16, 2007 11:18 PM EDT --
It has been noted that President Bush has
changed his rhetoric about Iraq from seeking
"victory" to gaining "success." Thinking
about that over the day, does "success"
mean . . .
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September 16, 2007 03:11 PM EDT --
The Iraq war will be 4.5 years old on Wednesday.
The much-vaunted report from General David
Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker about
the state of the war, and the state of Iraqi politics,
seems a very . . .
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September 15, 2007 06:17 PM EDT --
President Putin's dismissal of his entire government
just under three months before parliamentary elections
on 2 December was both startltling and unexpected.
His choice for Prime Minister was startling . . .
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September 09, 2007 09:06 PM EDT --
Over the months of this year and last, I've taken
a fair amount of heat for repeating stories by a
variety of folks about US (and/or Israeli) plans
to get at Iran by one process or another, usually . . .
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September 09, 2007 08:58 PM EDT --
Yesterday, bitter fighting broke out in Karbala,
one of the Shiite "holy cities" presently full of
several "hundreds of thousands" of pilgrims.
Apparently, from fragmentary reports . . .
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August 21, 2007 06:49 PM EDT --
Yesterday, Senator Levin (D-MI) called for al-Maliki's
removal as Iraq's Prime Minister, stating that the Iraqi
government is "non-functional." Levin's suggestion
was that the Iraqi . . .
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August 19, 2007 11:43 PM EDT --
My friends on the American right continue
to insist that the war in Iraq is going well.
However, there are certain signs that continue
to make me wonder how true that it is in the
larger scheme of things. . . .
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August 17, 2007 12:03 PM EDT --
This was the breathless report from a local reporter
in Lincoln NE thirty years ago this afternoon. I was
both shocked and saddened by the news, especially
when it was reported he had died of a drug overdose. . . .
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August 16, 2007 04:41 PM EDT --
The claim last week by a Russian submarine to “own”
the Arctic Ocean, and the North Pole, plus their stated
renewal of flying military missions with airplanes in
both a “spying” . . .
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August 08, 2007 02:14 AM EDT --
Japan affirmed again today its committment
to being a non-nuclear state as it commemorated
the 62nd anniversary of the atomic bombing of
Hiroshima. This event killed about 150,000
people in almost an instant, . . .
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August 08, 2007 02:03 AM EDT --
I have spent the past day or so meditating
on how it is that some of us can see Iraq
as being a better situation while others of
us are fairly pessimistic - and I think I've
arrived at a partial answer. . . .
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August 05, 2007 07:34 PM EDT --
While I can agree that American casualties are down,
and by *some* accounts sectarian murders are down,
there are still some really critical things not working
very well in Iraq besides the malfunctioning . . .
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July 30, 2007 10:12 AM EDT --
The Washington Post reporter Robin Wright,
a fairly knowledgable soul on Middle Eastern
affairs, wrote a piece yesterday that discusses
in some detail a complex arms deal that is
proposed to give some . . .
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July 29, 2007 08:07 PM EDT --
Russia appears on a course that grows in
hostility towards the West, and leans to
greater and greater authoritarianism and
militarism at home. Many analyses seem
to suggest that Russia's boom . . .
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July 22, 2007 05:47 PM EDT --
Here's a place in the world most of us, myself
included, have not given much attention to and,
in light of recent events, that perhaps we should
be watching more closely. Pakistan, one of only
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