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• J. Sri Raman | Undo Nepal's Polls: India's Hawks
• US Navy Resuscitates South Atlantic Fourth Fleet
• Bad Omen for Musharraf: Pakistan's Chief Justice Back
• Zimbabwe Officials Announce Election Run-Off
• What's McCain Thinking When He Says Boot Russia From G-8?
• Canada Reaches Out to Taliban
• Serge Truffaut | Goodbye to Anti-Fascism
• Environmental Group: Chevron Complicit in Burma Human Rights Abuses
• Pepe Escobar | The Iranian Chessboard
• Iran Complains to UN About Clinton Comment
• US Officials: Decision on Confronting Iran Up to Iraq
• April
• Child Labor Cases Uncovered in China
• Georgia Accuses Russia of "Full-Scale Military Aggression"
• J. Sri Raman | Anniversary of an Arrest
• US Marines Launch Mini Surge to Weaken Taliban
• Navy Adds Carrier in Gulf as "Reminder" to Iran
• Pierre Rousselin | Middle East Peace Goes Through the Golan
• Iraq Jumps Into US-Iran Tussle
• Steve Weissman | Bomb Bomb Iran by Summer's End?
• Afghanistan's Insurgency Spreading North
• Le Monde | Clouds Over Europe
• Leave Taliban Alone, Afghan President Tells West
• Iran Reportedly Says No Confrontation with US in Gulf
• Pentagon Preparing for Iran
• Mugabe's Party Loses in Recount
• US Afghan Supply Lines Depend on Islamic Warlord
• J. Sri Raman | Referendum and Resistance
• Canada, US, Mexico Accused of Interference With NAFTA Watchdog
• Ship Hired by US Military Fires Warning Shots in Persian Gulf
• In Shift, China Offers to Meet With Dalai Lama Envoys
• Frederic Lemaitre | The Revenge of Agriculture
• US to Heighten Afghan Role?
• US Labor Presses CAFTA Complaint Against Guatemala
• Europe Returns to Coal, Raising Climate Fear
• US Backs Arms Embargo, Saying Mugabe Lost
• Southern Africa Ports Shun Ship Carrying Arms for Zimbabwe
• George Monbiot | The Empires of Murdoch and China
• Serge Truffaut | Ersatz Experts
• UN Says Darfur Conflict Worsening, With Perhaps 300,000 Dead
• Un-"threat"-ing Iran: An Interview With Stephen Kinzer [VIDEO]
• Dalai Lama Calls for Environmental Responsibility
• Bill Quigley | America's Role in Haiti's Hunger Riots
• The Connection Between Inequalities and Ecology
• J. Sri Raman | Tears Over Tibet
• US Lacks Plan to Operate in Pakistani Tribal Areas, GAO Says
• US Lacks a Pakistan Plan, Report Finds
• NATO Admits Mistakenly Supplying Arms and Food to Taliban
• South Africa Calls on Zimbabwe to Release Election Results
• Le Monde | Hunger Hypocrites
• Women dominate Spain's new cabinet
• Ecuadoran Activists Fighting Chevron Receive Award
• Nepalese Police Detain 500 Tibetan Protesters
• UN's Louise Arbour Under Fire Over Rwanda
• J. Sri Raman | Maoist Victory in Nepal
• Manuel Perez Rocha and Sarah Anderson | Three Amigos Summit
• Busy in Iraq, US Faces Surging Violence in Afghanistan
• Top Emitters Meet in Paris, Worries on UN Overlap
• Management About to Ruin Le Monde's Editorial Credibility
• Strike Over Vote Falters in Zimbabwe
• Iran Says US Aids Rebels at Its Borders
• Unofficial US-Iran Group Holding "Secret" Nuclear Program Talks
• Zimbabwe Court Refuses to Release Vote Results
• Union Killings Peril Trade Pact With Colombia
• Clashes in Darfur, Protests Mark Five Years of War
• Afghan Fighting Poised to Escalate
• Le Monde Staff to Stop Presses Rolling
• Why Food Costs Are Climbing
• Shell Warns Europe on Emissions Permits
• Nepal Votes in Historic Election
• J. Sri Raman | Food and South Asia's Future
• Helene Rey | Money and Happiness
• House Votes to Put Off Trade Deal Bush Sought
• Labor Gears Up Campaign Against Colombia Free Trade Pact
• Canada Logging May Ignite "Carbon Bomb": Greenpeace
• In Zimbabwe: "Vote Mugabe or You Die"
• GMO: Europe Says Yes; Member States Don't Follow
• Fifty-Four Burmese Migrants Killed in Thailand
• Olympic President Makes Rare Rebuke of China
• Protesters Press China on US Olympic Torch Run
• French Law Protecting Journalists' Sources
• Pelosi to Prevent Colombia Vote
• Lobby for Colombia Trade Pact Casts Wide Net
• Renewable Energy Jobs Soar in Germany
• Zimbabwe High Court Takes Up Election Results
• Le Monde | Inconsistency and Injustice
• Paris Olympic Torch Relay Descends Into Chaos
• Bush to Force Vote on Colombia Trade
• Alarm Over Tactics of "Union-Busting" Firm
• Protest Disrupts Torch Relay in Paris
• Tibet Vows Trouble-Free Olympic Torch Relay
• Iranian Blogosphere Tests Government's Limits
• J. Sri Raman | New Test for Nepal
• Richard Werly | American Impotence Destabilizes Its Allies
• Nike Plant in Vietnam Still Closed
• Child Workers in Egypt a Growing Problem
• Chinese Police Kill Eight in Attack on Tibetan Protesters
• Group Says GE Supplier in China Subjects Workers to Toxins
• Prominent Chinese Rights Activist Is Jailed
• Zimbabwe Elections: Leader in Waiting
• Hotel Housing Foreign Reporters Raided in Zimbabwe
• Yifat Susskind | The US-Colombia Unfair Trade Agreement
• Robert Kennedy Jr. Visits Chile to Protect Patagonia
• NATO Allies Turn Down Bush Request
• Bill Moyers Journal | Hope in the Congo
• Yves Threard | Controversial French Troop Increase to Afghanistan
• Le Monde | Turkish Demons
• IOC Tells Beijing: Don't Block Internet
• Mugabe Faces Potential Replacement
• March
• Canada Orders Sea Shepherd to Stay Away From Seal Hunt
• Tibet Protest at Olympic Ceremony
• German Chancellor to Boycott Olympics in Beijing Angela Merkel becames the first world leader to decide not to attend the Olympics in Beijing.
• Jean-Jacques Mevel | Winks and Twitches
• Somalia's Government Teeters on Collapse
• J. Sri Raman | A Shadow Prime Minister on a "Strategic Partnership"
• Lhasa Monks Accuse Beijing of Lying Over Unrest
• Colombian Union Leader Builds Opposition to Free Trade Deal
• Million Acres of Guyanese Rainforest to Be Saved in Groundbreaking Deal
• Spain Sees Success With Wind Energy, Opposes Nuclear Power
• Le Monde | Afghan Disenchantment
• Pakistan's New Leaders Tell US: We Are No Longer Your Killing Field
• European Leaders Press China Over Tibet
• http://www.indianz.com/News/2008/007854.asp
• Supplier Under Scrutiny on Aging Arms for Afghans
• Afghans Lack $10 Billion in Aid, Report Says
• Police launch Mohawk drug raids [ Were these Mohawk drug raids or drug raids in Mohawk territory with co-operation of Mohawk bands?]
• US Mistakenly Sent Nuclear-Missile Detonators to Taiwan
• Mass Arrests in Tibet
• Unrest at Shuttered Gateway to Tibet
• No Carville Apology for Judas Remark
• The Truth About Tibet
• "No Momentum" for Olympic Boycott
• Pakistani Prime Minister Frees Judges
• Pakistan PM Orders Judges Freed
• US Firm Lays Claim to "Potentially Vast" Arctic Oil Resources Randy Boswell, The Ottawa Citizen, reports: "A US-based company that has controversially laid claim to nearly all of the Arctic Ocean's undersea oil said yesterday that new geological data suggest a 'potentially vast' petroleum resource of 400 billion barrels."
• China Lashes Out at Crackdown Critics
• Japan's Okinawans Rally Against US Military Crimes
• Bhutto's Party Picks a Consensus-Builder to Be Pakistan's Next Premier
• Pakistan to Try New Approach to Militants
• Germany Warns China Olympics at Risk
• Dalai Lama: "I Am Prepared to Face China. I Will Go to Beijing"
• China Blankets Tibetan Areas With Troops
• Tibetans Say Several Died in Latest Riots
• Legality of Guantanamo On Trial in Canada
• Extrajudicial Slayings on Rise in Colombia
• Annan Warns Against Conflict With Iran
• Bush Makes False Claims on Iran
• J. Sri Raman | America, the Army and Pakistan's Anti-Terror Priority
• Pakistan's Parliament Elects First Female Speaker
• US-Led Force Kills Afghan Civilians in Raid
• Aged Ships a Toxic Export
• Philippe Marliere | Zapatero: A Consistent Liberal
• Simmering Resentments Led to Tibetan Backlash
• Bill Powell | Tibet and the Ghosts of Tiananmen
• Worldwide Protests Over Tibet Crackdown
• Dollar Dips Against Euro Before Fed Rate Call
• Sarkozy's UMP suffers poll rebuke
• Pascal Riche | The Left Is Back in the Saddle, but Still Without a Horse
• UN and NATO Troops Clash With Serbs in Kosovo
• China "Holds Tibetan Dissidents"
• Tibet Governor Promises Harsh Consequences
• Albania: Scores of Civilians and US Military Staff Feared Dead
• China Cracks Down in Tibet and Beyond as Protests Spread
• Exile Group Says 30 Killed in Tibet
• Top Blair Aide: We Must Talk to al-Qaida
• Britain and France Push EU to Look at Green Tax Plan
• J. Sri Raman | India as a Poll Issue in Nepal
• Monk Protests in Tibet Draw Chinese Security
• Bush to Force Vote on Colombian Trade Deal
• The Monstrous Monsanto Universe
• Tibetan Exiles Go On Hunger Strike
• Sara Daniel | Iran: The Revolution of the Kepis
• Fallon's "No Iran War" Line Angered White House
• Afghan Deaths Soar to 8,000
• Socialists Re-elected in Spain, After a Bitter Campaign
• Pakistan Rivals Join to Fight Musharraf
• Vatican Calls Pollution a "New Sin"
• Le Monde | France's Right on the Defensive
• Bush, Colombia and Narco-Politics
• Crisis Over Colombian Raid Ends in Handshakes
• J. Sri Raman | India Under New Pressure on Iran
• The Lost Children
• Jean-Marcel Bouguereau | A Break From the Past American-Style?
• Greg Grandin | Fidel Castro, the First Super Delegate
• Venezuelan Troops Arrive at Town Near Colombia's Border
• Serge Truffaut | Proscribed
• Regional Bloc Criticizes Colombia Raid in Ecuador
• "NAFTAgate" Began With Remark From Harper's Chief of Staff
• Troop Depression on Rise in Afghanistan
• Iran Sanctions Vote Signals a Global Rift
• US Officials Defend Drug Spraying in Colombia
• Venezuela Mobilizes Forces to Colombia Border
• Crisis at Colombia Border Spills Into Diplomatic Realm
• Colombian Military Incursion into Ecuador Sparks Regional Crisis
• Gilles Kepel | Now Europe Must Take on the Ahmadinejad Challenge
• US Warship Stirs Lebanese Fear of War
• Canadian PM Accused of Interfering in US Elections
• US Forces Fire Missiles Into Somalia at a Kenyan
• US Launches Missile Strike in Somalia
• Suicide Bomber Kills at Least 42 in Pakistan Province
• UN Approves New Sanctions Against Iran
• Medvedev Wins Landslide in Russian Election
• Venezuela, Ecuador Mass Troops at Colombian Border
• Chavez Orders Troops to Colombian Border
• Russia Holds Election to Replace President
• J. Sri Raman | Moeen as Bangladesh's Musharraf
• February
• Le Monde | Cyber-Searches
• US Embrace of Musharraf Irks Pakistanis
• Kenyan Rivals Agree to Share Power
• Serge Halimi | Simplified Democracy
• Karzai Only Controls One-Third of Afghanistan
• In Sudan, Another Conflict Could Eclipse Darfur
• Divide and Rule
• Jean-Marcel Bouguereau | Dangerous Men and Dangerous Laws
• Shocking Stories About the Forgotten War in Afghanistan
• Report From a US Military Outpost in Afghanistan
• Peru National Agrarian Strike Against U.S. Trade Deal, Four Dead After Government Crackdown Dan Denvir
• A Natural Disaster Wrought by Drug Trade
• Kosova declares (semi-) independence Yes to full self-determination for Kosova. No to continuation of colonial-ruled state
• J. Sri Raman | Whether Musharraf Has Wings
• Fate of Ousted Judge Hangs Over Pakistan
• Jeremy Scahill: Behind Kosovo's Independence
• Brian Beutler | Getting the Strait Story
• Iran Rejects US Weapons Evidence
• Pakistan Shift Could Curtail Drone Strikes
• US Payments to Pakistan Face New Scrutiny
• Proposed Pakistan Coalition Could Oust Musharraf
• NATO - A Sense of Crisis
• Canadian TV Network Seeks Release of Afghan
• British Columbia Introduces Carbon Tax
• Thank Carbon for Air Cars
• Kosovo and the Politics of Recognition
• Protesters Attack US Embassy in Belgrade
• China Accuses US of Double Standards Over Satellite Strike
• Rare Cooperation to Save Gorillas
• Pakistan Victors Want Dialogue With Militants
• NATO Troops Called to Kosovan Border
• US Military Imposes Curbs in Japan
• Fidel Castro Announces Retirement
• Most Destructive Project on Earth Federal and provincial health officials in Alberta are trying to cover up 'the most destructive project on Earth,' aboriginal leaders said yesterday during the release of a report on the oilsands sector.
• Cayman Islands Bank Gets Whistleblower Site Taken Offline
• British Prewar Intelligence "Sexed Up"
• Pakistanis Deal Severe Defeat to Musharraf in Election
• Vote in Pakistan May Not Yield Clear Winner
• Kosovo Declares Independence From Serbia
• Doubts on Fairness and Security as Pakistani Vote Nears
• Pakistan Election Office Blast Kills 37
• J. Sri Raman | Pakistan: What After the Weekend?
• Pakistani Official Taped Saying Vote Will Be Rigged
• Saudi Prince Threatened British With Terrorism
• China's Ties to Sudan Causes Olympic Planning Controversy
• Venezuela Halts Oil Sales to Exxon Mobil
• John Feffer | Asia's Hidden Arms Race
• Rising Deforestation in Amazon Undermines Brazil's Environmental Policies
• US, Iran to Meet in Days for Iraq Security Talks
• East Timor Declares State of Emergency
• Authorities Confronted Over Abductions in Daghestan Republic
• Burma's Announcement of New Elections Met With Skepticism
• China: Crackdown Violates Olympic Promises
• Cambodian Official Confesses Role in "Killing Fields" Genocide
• Blast Kills Dozens at Pakistan Rally
• Bhutto's Party Disputes Scotland Yard's Findings
• Exxon Flexes Political Muscle Against Venezuela
• Changes Aimed at Foreign Farm Worker Pay
• US Free Trade Accords Face Rocky Road
• US Soldiers Help in War Against Rebels in Colombia
• Over Five Million Dead in Congo?: How Truth is Hidden, Even When it Seems to Be Told
• Chris Toensing | The Next US President's Iran Dilemma
• Kenya Death Toll Surpasses 1,000
• Insurgencies Spread in Afghanistan and Pakistan
• South Africa: Two economies –- or one system of superexploitation
• Germany: Die Linke electoral breakthrough
• Portugal: Where is the Left Bloc going?
• Thousands Flee Fighting in Chad
• Letter from Malaysia: Why the government attacked the January 26 protest
• NATO Allies Divided Over Growing Afghan Crisis
• Ruthie Ackerman | Firestone's Superbowl Fumble
• Rain Forests Fall at "Alarming" Rate
• Kenya: Media Not Innocent
• Life Is Worth More Than Gold, Say Anti-Mining Activists
• How Kenya's Election Was Rigged
• January
• How Kenya's Election Was Rigged
• Burma Arrests Blogger, Watchdog Says
• Saul Landau | Afghanistan - The Next Disaster
• Do the Suburban Enclaves Need an Umpteenth Plan?
• Serge Halimi | Jacques Attali, Magician
• Australian Plan: Buy Forests to Help Environment
• J. Sri Raman | A Spy Satellite and a Strategic Partnership
• Kenya Death Toll Near 800 in a Month
• Venezuela: Draft program and principles of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV)
• Chavez on food sovereignty [VIDEO]
• Indianismo and Marxism: The mismatch of two revolutionary rationales
• Indonesia's Suharto Dies
• Pakistan collapsing, Musharraf must go
• Pakistan Bans International Observers From Exit Polling
• Amazon's Rescue Reversed Tom Phillips, reporting for The Guardian UK, writes "Space imaging gives the lie to Brazil's recent 'great achievement' of halting rainforest destruction."
• Counterinsurgency in Chiapas
• Ten Die in Mistaken Afghan Firefight
• Canadian Military Has Quit Turning Detainees Over to Afghans
• Rice Pushes Colombia Free Trade Deal
• Missing Trader Causes French Bank 4.9 Billion Euro Loss
• US Makes Plans to Train Security Forces in Pakistan
• Six Powers Agree on Draft Iran Sanctions
• The Whole World Was Watching Burma
• The Boomerang Effect (New York Times)
• Time for us to say "No More Oil for War" to the US Ricardo Acuna: There are few things we progressive Albertans enjoy more than the opportunity to take a holier-than-thou attitude towards the United States.
• Rich Countries Owe Poor a Huge Environmental Debt
• J. Sri Raman | Himalayan Concerns of India's Far Right
• Latin America Banks on Independence
• Awaiting Wall Street's Open, Asia Markets Plunge
• Stock Markets Plunge in Asia and Europe
• Torture watchlist 'wrongly' names Canadian allies: Bernier
• Canada Manual: US Prisoners Face Torture
• Canadian Manual Has US on Torture List
• Le Monde | Environmental Justice
• Myret Zaki | Open or Die
• Rebecca Solnit | Revolution of the Snails
• Pakistan Loses Control of Militants
• J. Sri Raman | Beyond Death: Bhutto and Democracy
• Lebanon Blast Hits US Embassy Car
• Europe May Ban Imports of Some Biofuel Crops
• China: Anger After the Brutal Death of a "Citizen Journalist"
• 3,200 U.S. Marines Prepare for Afghan Tour
• U.S. Congress Likely to O.K. Saudi Arms Deal
• Legal Mist Stokes US-Iran Tensions in Strait
• Media Did Pentagon's Bidding in Reporting Naval "Provocation" With Iran
• Japan's Whale Kill Halted
• Mysterious Crowd Suddenly Stopped Bhutto's Car, Officer Says
• Mexican Authorities Move to Crush Copper Strike
• Pakistan Warns US on Attacking Al Qaeda on Its Own
• Africa "Being Drained of Doctors" BBC News: "Many African countries now have more doctors and nurses working in richer countries abroad than they have at home, research shows."
• Official Version of Naval Incident Starts to Unravel [VIDEO]
• Environmentalists Target Airlines Over Oilsands Fuel
• China's Air Pollution Data Questioned as Olympics Approach
• Taped Voices May Not Have Come From Iranian Boats
• Iran: Khatami Prepares Reformers' Comeback
• Pentagon Weighs Sending 3,000 More Troops to Afghanistan
• Evidence of North Korea Counterfeit Scheme Lacks Credibility
• Former CIA Agent Philip Agee Dies in Cuba
• Gulf Video "Fabricated," Iran Says
• Bhutto's Son Urges UN Assassination Probe
• Afghan Civilians Were Killed Needlessly, Ex-Marine Testifies
• Joelle Kuntz | Asia Hobbled by Its Military
• J. Sri Raman | What the US Presidential Election Means to India
• Marc Ash | Provocation in the Strait of Hormuz
• War Crimes Trial Opens With Grisly Video
• US Detention Center in Afghanistan Criticized by Red Cross
• Pakistani Army Rejects Covert US Presence
• US Considering New Covert Push Within Pakistan
• Musharraf Has Muzzled Legal Critics in Pakistan
• Two Describe Massacre at Fujimori Trial
• In Kenya, a Spiral of Killings
• Scotland Yard to Aid in Bhutto Investigation
• Mexican Farmers Protest NAFTA
• Violence Grows in Kenya
• Kenya: A Political Revolt, Not Ethnic Conflict
• Pakistan Vote Delayed to February
• Bhutto Report: Musharraf Planned to Fix Elections
• US Casualties in Afghanistan Hit Record
• J. Sri Raman | A Year-end of Yearning for Democracy