High oil prices have put al-Shahristani in a strong negotiating position [EPA]
Emilio Lizardo
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China and Iraq Sign $3bn Oil Deal

While American and European oil companies waited for a free ride or preferential conditions from the Government of Iraq as the country tenders for oil service contracts, China's CNPC, Asia's largest oil and gas...
highlighted by moonwolf | 3 hrs ago | updated 2 hrs ago
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...more fools
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Russia, Georgia, and the Kosovo Connection

The hollow hypocritical admonitions of NATO and the USA over Russia formally recognizing the ex-Georgian breakaway republics South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states don't hold any water as the West and the...
highlighted by moonwolf | 23 hrs ago | updated 19 hrs ago
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Dmitry Medvedev
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Why I Had to Recognize Georgias's Breakaway Regions: Medvedev

Dmitry Medvedev speaks directly to Westerners about the Russian Parliament's move to recognize South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states within the Russian Federation.  A very interesting read!...
highlighted by moonwolf | 1 day ago | updated 1 day ago
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A Really Tough Stretch For Pax Americana
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A Really Tough Time For Pax Americana

As the Bush Administration winds down it becomes necessary to assess how America has fallen to its lowest level of global influence in the last hundred years.  This analysis brings together the threads of the...
highlighted by moonwolf | 1 day ago | updated 23 hrs ago
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Afghans Protesting
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UPDATE: Number of Afghan Civilians Killed in Airstrike Upgraded to 90: UN

UPDATE: United Nations investigators have new evidence that the number of Afghan civilians massacred in last week's US air strike in Western Afghanistan was actually 90, mainly children, rather than the 76 referred...
highlighted by moonwolf | 1 day ago | updated 23 hrs ago
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Nuclear Bush
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Nuclear Chicken in Poland. Putin Can't Back Down

The possibility of a direct confrontation between the USA and Russia has been brought a step closer by the blatant US provocation of installing its missile "defense" system in Poland.  The naive argument by the...
highlighted by moonwolf | 3 days ago | updated 3 days ago
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Cocaine
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Dutch, US Forces Seize Cocaine in Caribbean

This was a huge seizure and will doubtless have an impact on whatever group of criminals was counting on receiving it!"The Dutch Navy and a squad of U.S. Coast Guard raiders seized 4.6 tons (4,200 kilograms) of...
highlighted by moonwolf | 3 days ago | updated 3 days ago
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John McBush
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Michael Moore asks:What's So Heroic Being Shot Down While Bombing Innocent Ci...

John McCain constantly drapes himself in Old Glory and his campaign trots out his "service" as a pilot during the Vietnam War and his ensuing incarceration as a prisoner of war as credentials for his status as a...
highlighted by moonwolf | 3 days ago | updated 3 days ago
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Washington Is Quietly Repudiating Its Debts

A relatively new and unexpected facet of fiscal mismanagement by the White House, The Federal Reserve and the US Treasury is fueling runaway inflation and putting the already floundering American economy at ever greater risk.  The following editorial is from the Wall...
highlighted by moonwolf | 5 days ago | updated 5 days ago
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The New Cold War Turns Hot:How Washington’s encirclement of Russia threatens us all
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How Washington’s Encirclement of Russia Threatens Us All

To bring a contrasting viewpoint to the bombastic deluge of Western pundits and nations pointing fingers at Russia as the resurrected global bad guy, here is an editorial that suggest another cause of the current...
highlighted by moonwolf | 5 days ago | updated 5 days ago
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John McCain
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John McCain and the International Republican Institute

An interesting and eye opening look into John McCain's questionable affiliation with the even more questionable International Republican Institute brought to you by the website Foreign Policy in Focus."Senator John...
highlighted by moonwolf | 5 days ago | updated 5 days ago
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AP photo Kim Walker, Hartford Courant
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Law and Order: Curfew America

Waves of gun violence plaguing the streets of cities in the United States are sparking a massive police presence and curfews in many cities."The police state has not arrived quite yet but it may feel like it to the...
highlighted by moonwolf | 5 days ago | updated 5 days ago
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Afghanis Protesting
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76 Afghani Civilians Killed In Coalition Airstrike

BREAKING NEWS: 76 civilians, mainly women and children were massacred by US warplanes during a coalition airstrike in the Sindand district of Western Afghanistan today says the Afghan Interior Ministry.  One...
highlighted by moonwolf | 6 days ago | updated 6 days ago
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Bush, Putin
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What To Do Now in Georgia

Foreign Policy in Focus analyst Ian Williams looks at the standoff in Georgia and brings valid criticisms of all the involved parties to the discussion, as well as some possible courses of action that would allow for...
highlighted by moonwolf | 1 wk ago | updated 1 wk ago
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Can Two Small Boats+International Activists=Breaking the Siege of Gaza?
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Can Two Small Boats+International Activists Break the Siege of Gaza?

A small, but dramatic peace mission is on its way in an attempt to break the Siege of Gaza, and though it is comprised of only two small boats and a handful of gutsy international peace activists it has widespread...
highlighted by moonwolf | 1 wk ago | updated 1 wk ago
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