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Patrick Cockburn

                   
wsvn.com: Taliban, Afghan officials meet in Saudi Arabia wsvn.com

Patrick Cockburn: The commander is right... you'll never beat the Taliban

independent.co.uk
7 hrs ago 123 related
        

The first serious talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban took place 10 days ago in Mecca under the auspices of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. During the discussions all sides agreed that the war in Afghanistan is...

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Bill Gallagher: McCain's Exit from Michigan Highlights His Failures

buzzflash.com
14 hrs ago 8 related
        

A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTIONby Bill GallagherDetroit -- John McCain does get it. The election is about judgment. On the defining issues for the presidential candidates -- America's role in the world, the economy and the...

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Johann Hari: McCain is deluding himself over the 'surge'

independent.co.uk
yesterday 4 related
        

John McCain is desperate to talk about the surge rather than the splurge. His Iraq war is set to cost one trillion dollars, and his deregulation-mania has cost hundreds of billions. So in order to maintain his façade of being...

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Creatures of Capital

worldproutassembly.org
yesterday
        

The brief mutiny is over. The Democrats, who control Congress, have pushed through the outrageous Paulson swindle, giving an initial $700 billion or so to Wall Street. The Democratic presidential nominee, Barack Obama, lobbied...

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Book Critics Circle's finalists

philly.com
03-Oct-2008
        

Sorry, Thomas Pynchon (wherever you are). Maybe next time, National Book Award-winner Richard Powers. The National Book Critics Circle, the nationwide organization of more than 500 book critics, editors and reviewers, announced...

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dailymail.co.uk: Henry and Patrick Cockburn dailymail.co.uk

My son ended up in a mental hospital - and I blame cannabis

dailymail.co.uk
02-Oct-2008 1 related
        

Patrick Cockburn is a leading foreign correspondent who spent years covering the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Here, in an utterly candid account, he describes the agony of having to deal with his son Henry's schizophrenia. On...

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IRAQ: After the surge in Iraq: has the US won?

greenleft.org.au
28-Sep-2008 2 related
        

“The surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated”, US Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama told Fox News on September 4. Obama’s claim echoed Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain....

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Propaganda Is a Two-Way Street

indymedia.org.uk
23-Sep-2008 240 related
        

In the ceaseless and invariably bellicose calls for war (both open and clandestine) against Iran, perhaps one argument invoked by pro-war pundits and politicians stands out and takes pride of place above all others: Iran,...

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America’s election faultline, Godfrey Hodgson

opendemocracy.net
18-Sep-2008
        

Wall Street has collapsed. Its fourth biggest investment bank, the 158-year-old Lehman Brothers, has collapsed, its shiny building bought at a knock-down price by the red coats from Barclays. Merrill Lynch, the thundering...

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James Denselow: Exit Petraeus

guardian.co.uk
17-Sep-2008 3 related
        

When I was in Jordan at a National Defence University conference on Iraqi security in 2005, the Iraqi officials I met regularly complained about the rapid turnover of their US counterparts. The Marines' "Rumsfeld-like"...

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