US officials want their puppet Iraqi government to agree to a long-term 联status of forces agreement聰 that would give the US military 联broad authority to conduct combat operations and guarantee civilian contractors specific legal protections from Iraqi law聰, the January 25 New York Times reported.
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鈥淐elebrating the completion of nine years in office, Venezuela鈥檚 President Hugo Chavez presented what he considered to be some of the main economic achievements of his government鈥 according to a February 4 Venezuelanalysis.com article.
The polling company Opinion Research Business (ORB) has released detailed data confirming that the death toll from the Iraq war has exceeded 1 million people 聴 more than the total number killed in the Rwandan genocide of 1994.
鈥淲ith food prices rising, Haiti鈥檚 poorest can鈥檛
afford even a daily plate of rice, and some take desperate measures to fill their bellies鈥, according to a January 29 Associated Press article by Jonathan Katz.
The socialist journal Links, initiated by the Australian Democratic Socialist Perspective (DSP) to promote international socialist collaboration and regroupment, has been relaunched as an online-only publication.
The Shock Doctrine
By Naomi Klein
Allen Lane, 2007
576 pages, $32.95 (pb)
By Naomi Klein
Allen Lane, 2007
576 pages, $32.95 (pb)
US and allied foreign forces are facing 鈥渁 classic growing insurgency鈥 in Afghanistan, Admiral Michael Mullen, the head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, told US legislators on February 1.
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