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POLITICS: Bush, U.S. Military Pressure Iraqis on Withdrawal
Analysis by Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON - Instead of moving toward accommodating the demand of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for a timetable for U.S. military withdrawal, the George W. Bush administration and the U.S. military leadership are continuing to pressure their erstwhile client regime to bow to the U.S. demand for a long-term military presence in the country.
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RIGHTS-US: NGO "Blacklist" Unfair and Arbitrary, Groups Say
By William Fisher
NEW YORK - In the name of "global war on terror", the U.S. government is waging war on non-governmental organisations by applying "shortsighted, undemocratic policies" that are "constraining the critical activities of the charitable and philanthropic sectors, stifling free speech, and ultimately impeding the fight against terrorism."
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US/IRAN: Scowcroft, Brzezinski Urge Bush to Drop Precondition
By Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - Two of Washington's most prominent foreign policy greybeards praised Saturday's direct participation in multinational talks with Iran by a senior U.S. diplomat but called on the administration of President George W. Bush to drop his demands that Tehran freeze its uranium enrichment programme as a precondition for broader negotiations.
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POLITICS-US: New Spying Law Quickly Challenged
By William Fisher
NEW YORK - Civil liberties advocates have lost no time in asking a federal court to stop the government from conducting surveillance under the new wiretapping law passed by Congress and signed by President George W. Bush last week.
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CANADA: Gov't Slow to Defend Guantanamo's "Child Soldier"
By Am Johal
VANCOUVER - He remains the youngest prisoner still languishing in the U.S.-run detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. While Australia and Britain have fought to have al Qaeda-linked detainees who were respective citizens of their countries returned home to face domestic legal processes, the Canadian government has not done the same for its own citizen, Omar Khadr.
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US/IRAQ: McCain Knee-Capped by Al-Maliki
Analysis by Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - This weekend's surprise endorsement by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki of Sen. Barack Obama's call for U.S. combat forces to leave Iraq by mid-2010 marks a serious setback to Sen. John McCain, who has tried hard to depict his Democratic rival as "naïve" on foreign policy, especially with respect to Iraq.
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RIGHTS-US: Hamdan Case to Test Military Tribunals
By William Fisher
NEW YORK - As the long-awaited trial of Guantanamo detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan opened this week at the U.S. naval base in Cuba, human rights groups filed suit demanding that the Department of Justice (DOJ) produce documents related to the U.S. government's ghost detention, torture, and extraordinary rendition programme.
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POLITICS: Seismic Shift or Non-Decision by Bush on Iran?
Analysis by Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON - The U.S. decision to send the State Department's third-ranking official to sit in on the meeting between European Union foreign affairs chief Javier Solana and Iran's nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili Saturday has been hailed as a major diplomatic breakthrough, but it is too soon to pop the champagne cork.
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POLITICS-US: Realists Rack Up Another Win
Analysis by Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - In the seemingly never-ending internal battle between hawks and realists in the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush for control of foreign policy, the realists appear to have chalked up another win over their once-dominant foes.
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POLITICS-US: Doves Outnumber Hawks in Jewish Community
By Daniel Luban
WASHINGTON - A new poll suggests that U.S. Jews hold views about the Middle East that are considerably more dovish than frequently acknowledged, with large majorities favouring diplomacy with Iran, supporting a two-state solution in Israel/Palestine, and advocating U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.
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Q&A: "Iran Won't Wait for Obama to Talk to U.S."
Interview with Hooshang Amirahmadi, President of the American Iranian Council
NEW YORK - Despite opposition from some hardline factions in Iran, the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has responded positively to a proposal by the United States that it open a U.S. Interests Section in Tehran -- its first formal diplomatic presence since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
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BOOKS-US: Blogging Brobdingnagian Blowback
By Khody Akhavi
WASHINGTON - It was neoconservative pundit Charles Krauthammer who, in the wake of the Soviet Union's collapse, inaugurated Washington's unipolar moment.
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US/AFGHANISTAN: Deadly Assault Could Alter Campaign Dynamics
Analysis by Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - If nothing else, the deaths Sunday of nine U.S. soldiers at a remote outpost in eastern Afghanistan close to the Pakistan border are likely to bring home to the U.S. electorate what top national security officials have been saying for much of the past year -- that the central front in Washington's "global war on terrorism" has moved eastwards about 1,800 kms from Iraq.
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As President George W. Bush enters the final stretch of his second term, there are few substantial policy changes in sight, from Iraq to climate change. Meanwhile, the campaign for the 2008 presidential election is in full swing.

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