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• Time to Close

  Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, has ordered his staff to draw up plans to close the controversial Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba. (more…)

  Posted on Dec 19.08 to Cuba, Gates, Robert, Torture, United States   

• Jeremy Scahill: Obama’s Kettle of Hawks

  Barack Obama has assembled a team of rivals to implement his foreign policy. But while pundits and journalists speculate endlessly on the potential for drama with Hillary Clinton at the state department and Bill Clinton’s network of shady funders, the real rivalry that will play out goes virtually unmentioned. The main battles will not be [...]

  Posted on Dec 03.08 to AIPAC, Afghanistan, Biden, Joe, Bush, George W., CIA, Clinton, Hillary, Cold War, Darfur, Emanuel, Rahm, Gates, Robert, Gulf War II, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jones, James, McCain, John, Militarism, Neoconservatism, Neoliberal Economics, Obama, Barack, Pakistan, Pentagon, Rice, Susan, Rove, Karl, Rumsfeld, Donald, Sudan, US Foreign Policy, al-Qaeda   

• Jeremy Scahill: This Is Change? 20 Hawks, Clintonites & Neocons to Watch for in Obama’s White House

  U.S. policy is not about one individual, and no matter how much faith people place in President-elect Barack Obama, the policies he enacts will be fruit of a tree with many roots. Among them: his personal politics and views, the disastrous realities his administration will inherit, and, of course, unpredictable future crises. But the best [...]

  Posted on Nov 21.08 to 9/11, AIPAC, Afghanistan, Albright, Madeleine, Biden, Joe, Bush, George W., CIA, Cheney, Dick, Chomsky, Noam, Christopher, Warren, Clinton, Bill, Clinton, Hillary, Darfur, East Timor, Emanuel, Rahm, Extraordinary Rendition, Fox News, G-20, Gates, Robert, Genocide, Goodman, Amy, Great Britain, Gulf War I, Gulf War II, Haiti, Holbrooke, Richard, Hussein, Saddam, Imperialism, Indonesia, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Iran, Iran-Contra Scandal, Iraq, Israel, Israel Lobby, Jerusalem, Kissinger, Henry, Kosovo, Kurdistan, MI5, Military Occupation, NAFTA, NATO, Neoconservatism, Neoliberal Economics, North Korea, Nuclear Weapons, Obama, Barack, Pakistan, Palestine, Pentagon, Powell, Colin, Private Security, Ross, Dennis, Rumsfeld, Donald, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Serbia, Sudan, Torture, US Congress, US Foreign Policy, United Nations, United States, Vietnam, War on Drugs, Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), Wolfowitz, Paul, World Bank, Yugoslavia, al-Qaeda