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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, embassy siege

Here we go again.
In its strongest statement so far, the White House said on Thursday that Iran’s president-elect was a leader of the student movement that organized the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
But the United States has not yet determined whether Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was involved in the taking of hostages, a White [...]

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Close CAFTA Vote Shows Shift in Trade Politics

Statement of Lori Wallach on CAFTA Final Vote in the House of Representatives
The CAFTA vote became a highly politicized referendum on whether President Bush would be made a lame duck, but the CAFTA debate makes clear that a dramatic shift in U.S. trade politics has occurred, and the NAFTA trade model is dead.
After losing the [...]

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Syria Faces Further Sanctions Due to Illicit Dealings with Iraq

Hypocrisy anyone?
The State Department said Wednesday Syria could face additional U.S. penalties if refuses to transfer to Iraq $262 million in funds the United States says it obtained in violation of U.N. Security Council sanctions against Iraq. Elizabeth Dibble, a deputy assistant secretary of state, told a hearing of two House subcommittees that the United [...]

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Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson

Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic

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It has been a long year. The author is currently biding his time. Lets just say the journal is on a prolonged and much needed vacation. In the meantime you can be sure that I’m watching you all. I guess that at some point I will get so angry that I will in fact have to write something.

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