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dpa German Press Agency Published: Wednesday January 17, 2007
Ankara- US troops in Iraq on Wednesday raided a refugee camp housing Turkish Kurds in northern Iraq, Turkish news agencies reported. Abdurrahman Belaf Berzenci, the elected leader of the 10,000 refugees at the Mahmur refugee camp, told the Dogan news agency that US forces moved into the camp Wednesday morning and went from dwelling to dwelling checking identity cards.
Berzenci said that there were no violent incidents during (…)

Why Time is not on Bush’s Side: "Out of altitude, airspeed and ideas" By FRANKLIN SPINNEY January 17, 2007 The heart of any military strategy in the conduct of war is the art of placing your adversary under menacing pressure to make a decision, while denying him thetime to make sense out of the menacing conditions forcing that decision. The Baker Commission tried to buy time by throwing a life ring to the Decider-in-Chief, but he refused it and chose instead to squander two months of (…)

Cochabamba, 11-12-13-14-15 January, 2007
A Bolivian demonstrator holds a dynamite stick during a rally in El Alto, on the outskirts of La Paz, January 15, 2007. Thousands of protesters from El Alto city on Monday demanded the resignation of La Paz governor Jose Luis Paredes for supporting a pro-autonomy movement. The rally in El Alto took place four days after violent clashes in the central province of Cochabamba, also over the autonomy issue. (photo: Jose Luis Quintana)
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Iranian troops have shot down a U.S. pilotless spy plane, local Fars News Agency reported on Tuesday.
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www.afghanistanafterdemocracy.com
ATTENTION ALL AMERICANS
Does anyone even remember Afghanistan?! I’m sure you’ve heard the same sh#* I have that the "war" in Afghanistan is over, it’s won, and all is sunshine and butterflies there. I challenge ALL AMERICANS to buy this book, LOOK at what has been done to Afghanistan IN OUR NAMES and do the right thing!!!!!! The book was written by an Afghani doctor to illustrate what has been done to Afghanistan. It is (…)

By Nicola Nasser*
President George W. Bush’s paradoxical “new strategy” in Iraq is doomed by its own contradictions as much as by Iraqi and regional paradoxes and would in no time prove that the U.S. president’s go-it-alone approach will only extend the failure of the 2003 military invasion in developing into a permanent occupation, amid wide spread world and American calls for withdrawal and political solution.
“The new strategy I outline tonight will change America’s course in Iraq,” (…)

Paramount Inks Deal With Spike Lee to Direct James Brown Biopic By The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES - The late "Godfather of Soul" James Brown will rise again - on screen.
Spike Lee has signed on to direct a feature film about the singer produced by Brian Glazer and Imagine Entertainment, Paramount Pictures announced Wednesday.
"It’s an authorized biography done with the cooperation of Mr. Brown before his passing," Paramount spokeswoman Nancy Kirkpatrick said without further (…)

Baghdad 2025 The Pentagon Solution to a Planet of Slums By Nick Turse
So you think that American troops, fighting in the urban maze of Baghdad’s huge Shiite slum, Sadr City, add up to nothing more than a horrible mistake, an unexpected fiasco? The Pentagon begs to differ. For years now, U.S. war planners have believed that guerrilla warfare is the future — not against Guevarist focos in the countryside of some recalcitrant, possibly-oil-rich land, but in growing urban "jungles" in the vast (…)

Can Hugo Chavez Beat The Devil? Monday, 15 January 2007, 9:56 am Opinion: Sherwood Ross Can Hugo Chavez Beat The Devil?
By Sherwood Ross
After Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez told the United Nations he could smell the sulphur in the chamber where President Bush spoke the previous day, some angry Bostonians wanted to pull down the big CITGO neon sign in Kenmore Square, since CITGO oil is pumped in Chavez Country. The loquacious Chavez had the temerity to compare President Bush with the devil, (…)

First they re-name road, then Martin Luther King Day fails to make the cut
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — (OfficialWire) — 01/15/07 — Online Reservation System Despite the company’s quaint habit of commemorating holidays and ’important’ events with a ’holiday logo’ and despite having twice previously recognized Martin Luther King Day (), Google, Inc.—the world most popular search engine—has given the famous leader of the American civil rights movement the cold shoulder on his birthday.
On January (…)