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Rachel Joy Larris
August 25, 2006
After four hellish years in Guantanamo, Murat Kurnaz, a Turkish man with German residency, was released back to Germany this week with a final “f-you” from our government. According to his lawyer, for his flight home Kurnaz was?“kept blindfolded and in chains.”?Sure, prisoners are often transported in chains (although why the [...]

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Article published Friday, August 25, 2006
Troop recall folly
FACED with continuing shortages of U.S. military forces in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere, President Bush has now given open-ended authorization for involuntary recall of Marine Corps reservists, starting with an initial group of 2,500.

By Sam Roe
Tribune staff reporter
August 23, 2006, 9:56 PM EDT
In the heart of Tehran sits one of Iran’s most important nuclear facilities, a dome-shaped building where scientists have conducted secret experiments that could help the country build atomic bombs. It was provided to the Iranians by the United States.

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Iran denies claim its military attacked a Romanian oil rig in Iranian waters in what appears to be an out-of-control commercial dispute.

By Katha Pollitt, The Nation
Posted on August 26, 2006, Printed on August 26, 2006
http://www.alternet.org/story/40850/
If you control the language, you control the debate. As the Bush Administration’s Middle Eastern policy sinks ever deeper into bloody incoherence, the “war on terror” has been getting a quiet linguistic makeover. It’s becoming the “war on Islamic fascism.” The term [...]

By George J. Bryjak
Originally published August 22, 2006
SAN DIEGO // On Nov. 19, 2005, a unit of Marines arrived at the Iraqi village of Haditha to remove the bodies of civilians reportedly killed by a roadside blast. What they found were infants, women and children shot in the face and chest and the body of [...]

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/25/coulter-ends-segment/
Last night on Hannity and Colmes, guest host Kirsten Powers confronted Ann Coulter about President Bush’s failure to capture Osama Bin Laden and the rapidly deteriorating situation in Afghanistan.

By Ray McGovern
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082506R.shtml
t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Friday 25 August 2006
Talk about chutzpah! I was suffering a bit from outrage fatigue yesterday but was shaken out of it as soon as I downloaded an unusually slick paper, “Recognizing Iran as a Strategic Threat: An Intelligence Challenge for the United States,” released [...]

August 25, 2006 11:53 AM
Brian Ross and Joseph Rhee Report:
State Farm Insurance supervisors systematically demanded that Hurricane Katrina damage reports be buried or replaced or changed so that the company would not have to pay policyholders’ claims in Mississippi, two State Farm insiders tell ABC News.
Kerri and Cori Rigsby, independent adjusters who had worked for [...]

By Michel Chossudovsky
August 24, 2006
Barely acknowledged by the Western media, military exercises organized by Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan under the Collective Security Treaty Organisation, (CSTO)? were launched on the 24th of August. These war games, officially tagged as part of a counter terrorism program, are in direct response to US military threats [...]