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George Bush once again accused Iran of continuing to “harbor and assist terrorists,” July 21, warning of the consequences. Israel, as well, on July 21, accused Iran of “trying everything” to get nuclear weapons, and that if it succeeded, it would threaten a far wider theatre than just the Middle East. 
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Aug 2, 2003
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While White House officials assert that President George W. Bush “is not a fact checker,” hundreds of thousands of Americans are demanding that the facts be checked on why the Bush administration went to war in Iraq.
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The Bush administration, which thumbed its nose at the United Nations before the Iraq war, has now been forced to beg the UN for help with its foundering occupation.
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It’s been a big week for those seeking an end to the 42-year-old U.S. blockade against socialist Cuba.
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Ingrata y desmotivante ha sido la última etapa vivida por las tropas invasoras, instaladas en Irak, luego de la derrota del ex dictador Saddam Hussein.
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Esta ha sido una gran semana para los que buscan poner fin al bloqueo contra la Cuba socialista que Estados Unidos ha mantenido por 42 años.
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Opinion
Ending the colonial rule of British imperialism, India won its independence and established itself as a sovereign, socialist, democratic republic on January 26, 1950.
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Opinion
The New York Times reports that Italian students and teachers are protesting the inclusion in high school graduation exams of an essay question about “terror and repression in totalitarian systems,” which the question defines as “communism, Nazism, and fascism,” highlighting communism.
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Opinion
I never thought I’d agree with Zbigniew Brzezinski on much of anything. (For those who may not remember, he was Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser and a leading cold war ideologue.)
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From Berlin, New York Times correspondent Richard Bernstein reports on what he presents as the question of the day: Have Germans “become too addicted to leisure time for their own good?”
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