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		<title>Editorial: A war and its innocent victims</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editorial: A war and its innocent victims 11 August 2008 THE case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, an award-winning Pakistani neuroscientist who grew up in the US and was a star student at top US universities including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Boston, is perhaps the most bizarre in the US war on terror. Siddiqui, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albasheer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1823967&amp;post=329&amp;subd=albasheer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>McCain, Anthrax &amp; the Afghan Blunder</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[McCain, Anthrax &#38; the Afghan Blunder By Robert Parry August 3, 2008 Not only has it been clear for many years that McCain’s speculation about Iraq’s role in the anthrax attacks was reckless – made even more apparent by the FBI now pinning the crime on dead U.S. bio-defense scientist Bruce Ivins – but McCain [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albasheer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1823967&amp;post=327&amp;subd=albasheer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Has America become Fascist?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Has America become Fascist? Sherwood Ross If it hasn’t gone the way of Mussolini’s Italy and Hitler’s Germany, it sure is teetering on the brink. America is a nation in deepening crisis, a nation whose leaders repeatedly plunge their citizens into, and make them pay for, serial wars abroad, while stealing their liberties at home. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albasheer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1823967&amp;post=325&amp;subd=albasheer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>British troops &#8216;made Muslim commander hear porn videos&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 11:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[British troops &#8216;made Muslim commander hear porn videos&#8217; Richard Norton-Taylor – The Guardian August 2, 2008 British soldiers forced a Shia militia commander to listen to pornographic videos, deprived him of sleep, repeatedly beat him, and kept him in solitary confinement for more than five months, according to fresh damning allegations against the conduct of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albasheer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1823967&amp;post=323&amp;subd=albasheer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PA torments Palestinians on Israel’s behalf</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PA torments Palestinians on Israel’s behalf Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank In recent days, the American-backed Palestinian Authority (PA) carried out a shameful crackdown against non-conformist Palestinian intellectuals, journalists as well as civic and religious leaders all over the West Bank. PA security agencies have also violently suppressed peaceful rallies by the pan-Islamic Liberation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albasheer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1823967&amp;post=321&amp;subd=albasheer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New actor on the same old stage</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New actor on the same old stage Robert Fisk – The Independent August 2, 2008 I was in the studios of al-Jazeera – the Qatar satellite channel so democratic in the eyes of Colin Powell that Bush later wanted to bomb it – while Barack Obama was performing his theatricals in the Middle East. &#8220;Theatre&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albasheer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1823967&amp;post=319&amp;subd=albasheer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Israel’s ‘Right to Exist’</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Israel’s ‘Right to Exist’ Phillip F. Tourney I have heard it for the entirety of my 61 years of life–Israel’s ‘Right To Exist’. In fact, in recent memory I have heard this phrase more than I’ve heard ‘Happy Thanksgiving’ or ‘Merry Christmas’ or even ‘Have a Good 4th of July’. Israel seems to exist quite [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albasheer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1823967&amp;post=317&amp;subd=albasheer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ICC and al-Bashir: Ocampo’s Justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ICC and al-Bashir: Ocampo’s Justice Ramzy Baroud The crimes committed against innocent people in Darfur represent a shameful episode in the history of Sudan and its neighbours, including Chad, which has played a dubious role in sustaining the seething conflict. Equally disgraceful is the politicising of the bloody conflict in ways that will ensure its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albasheer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1823967&amp;post=315&amp;subd=albasheer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>US Warns Israel –There Will Be No ‘USS Liberty Pt II’</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[US Warns Israel –There Will Be No ‘USS Liberty Pt II’ Mark Glenn – The Ugly Truth July 28, 2008 For the last 41 years, Israel’s attack on the USS Liberty has been a taboo topic about which neither the Jewish state nor the US has allowed free and open discussion. Like a paid-off judge [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albasheer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1823967&amp;post=313&amp;subd=albasheer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are You Ready to Face the Facts About Israel?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are You Ready to Face the Facts About Israel? Paul Craig Roberts &#8220;On October 21 (1948) the Government of Israel took a decision that was to have a lasting and divisive effect on the rights and status of those Arabs who lived within its borders: the official establishment of military government in the areas where [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albasheer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1823967&amp;post=311&amp;subd=albasheer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blowback through the looking glass</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blowback through the looking glass By Robert Weitzel “If I had a world of my own . . . nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn&#8217;t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn&#8217;t be. And what it wouldn&#8217;t be, it would.” -Alice in Wonderland- Alice: “You want democracy in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albasheer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1823967&amp;post=309&amp;subd=albasheer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Persia: Ancient Soul of Iran</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Persia: Ancient Soul of Iran What Really Happened – July 23, 2008 One of the great crimes committed against the people of Iraq was the looting of the Baghdad Museum and the destruction of many important ancient sites inside Iraq. As the drums beat for more war in Iran, there is a valid concern that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albasheer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1823967&amp;post=308&amp;subd=albasheer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama, Israel and Palestine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama, Israel and Palestine Khalid Amayreh in occupied East Jerusalem Barack Obama has finally made his long-awaited pilgrimage to Israel, a rite of passage that no aspiring American politician, let alone a presidential candidate, can afford to miss or ignore. There (or rather here), Obama uttered all the politically-correct words that Israeli leaders and especially [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albasheer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1823967&amp;post=307&amp;subd=albasheer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A sign of ‘The Times’</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A sign of ‘The Times’ By Gilad Atzmon Back in 2003 I wrote, “If ‘world peace’ is our main concern, we must achieve a balance of power, we must let the oppressed people of this world have access to the most advanced weaponry…. Balance of power is the only key to peace.” Nowadays, when Israel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albasheer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1823967&amp;post=305&amp;subd=albasheer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Media bias and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Media bias and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict By Neve Gordon* Neve Gordon highlights the case of the Palestinian village of Ni&#8217;lin, whose residents are heroically resisting Israeli land seizures, as an example of how the media, from the BBC to CNN, ignore stories that “shatter the stereotypical perception of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict provided by mainstream news [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albasheer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1823967&amp;post=303&amp;subd=albasheer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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