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POLITICS: Bush Plan Eliminated Obstacle to Gaza Assault
Analysis by Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON - Until mid-2007, there was a serious political obstacle to a massive conventional war by Israel against Hamas in Gaza: the fact that Hamas had won free and fair elections for the Palestinian parliament and was still the leading faction in a fully legitimate government.
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BOOKS-US: Dick Cheney, Master Bureaucrat
By Daniel Luban
WASHINGTON - While lazier caricatures have always cast Vice-President Dick Cheney as the puppet-master pulling George W. Bush’s strings, it is the image of Cheney as master bureaucrat that provides the real key to understanding his power.
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RIGHTS-US: "Bad Apples" Didn't Fall Far From the Tree
By William Fisher
NEW YORK - On the heels of a bipartisan Congressional report blaming high-level officials of the George W. Bush administration for employing harsh interrogation techniques on detainees captured in the "global war on terror", many of the world's most respected civil libertarians are calling for the establishment of an independent commission to investigate the alleged abuses.
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POLITICS: U.S. Military Defiant on Key Terms of Iraqi Pact
Analysis by Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON - U.S. military leaders and Pentagon officials have made it clear through public statements and deliberately leaked stories in recent weeks that they plan to violate a central provision of the U.S.-Iraq withdrawal agreement requiring the complete withdrawal of all U.S. combat troops from Iraqi cities by mid-2009 by reclassifying combat troops as support troops.
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BOOKS-US: When Neocons Ruled Washington
By Michael Flynn*
GENEVA - In the first two pages of his book on the neoconservative movement, historian Stephen Sniegoski tells us that U.S. Mideast policy during the George W. Bush presidency has been "colossally erroneous" and "disastrous to U.S. interests", that the Iraq War is a "blunder of colossal proportions", and that an attack on Iran is a "highly likely" "disaster" unless the country "eschews all elements of the Middle East war policy".
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RIGHTS-US: No Amnesty for Cheney et al, Say Torture Opponents
By Ali Gharib
WASHINGTON - Judging by the rare leaks from President-elect Barack Obama's transition team, investigations and prosecutions of high-level George W. Bush administration officials for torture and war crimes are a distant prospect. But likely or not, that won't stop pundits from debating the question of whether those officials responsible should be held accountable.
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POLITICS: Pact Will End Iraqi Dependence on U.S. Military
Analysis by Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON - The text of the U.S.-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) signed by U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker and Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari Monday closes the door to a further U.S. military presence beyond 2011 even more tightly than the previous draft and locks in a swift end to Iraqi dependence on the U.S. military that appears to be irreversible.
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US-PAKISTAN: Obama-Tied Think Tank Calls for "Dramatic" Shift
By Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - A think tank closely tied to U.S. President-Elect Barack Obama is calling for a "dramatic strategic shift" in Washington's policy towards Pakistan, one designed to both strengthen civilian institutions and promote an effective counter-insurgency against al Qaeda and indigenous Islamist extremists in the tribal areas along the Afghan border who increasingly threaten the country's stability.
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RIGHTS-US: Activists Seek Executive Order Banning Torture
By Wolfgang Kerler
NEW YORK - Shutting down the infamous detention centre at Guantanamo Bay is just one of a series of measures to reform U.S. counterterrorism practices being urged by the watchdog organisation Human Rights Watch (HRW).
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U.S.: First, Close Guantanamo, Say Rights Groups
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama should make the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility a top priority when he takes office Jan. 20, U.S. and international human rights groups said Monday.
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POLITICS-US: Two, Three, Many Grand Bargains?
Analysis by Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - As the United States waded ever deeper into the Indochinese quagmire in the early 1960s, the Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara called for "two, three, many Vietnams" to bog down the superpower in unwinnable Third World conflicts that would drain its treasury and overstretch its military.
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RIGHTS: Bush's "Freedom Agenda" Stumbles in Syria
By Ali Gharib and Zainab Mineeia
WASHINGTON - With media and diplomatic attention focused on the international incident ignited by a U.S. cross-border raid from Iraq into Syrian territory last weekend, the Syrian government quietly handed down 30-month prison terms to a group of democracy activists on Wednesday.
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US-IRAQ: Detainees May Go From Frying Pan to Fire
By Ali Gharib and Zainab Mineeia
WASHINGTON - An estimated 17,000 Iraqis detained in their own country by occupying U.S. forces may soon face transfer into an Iraqi government detention system where reports of abuse and torture are commonplace, says a leading human rights advocacy group.
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