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  1. New report: Why troops should leave Afghanistan

    escalation of the war in Afghanistan. Addressing the Brookings Institute think tank in Washington on July 14 ... send more troops. On July 15, Obama and McCain became involved in a bidding war over whose troop surge ... argued that the Iraq war was a diversion from the real "war on terror" in Afghanistan, while ...

  2. Pope protest celebrates civil liberties win

    the pope's reactionary policies took place on July 19 against the backdrop of an important civil ... premier John Watkins on June 28, the last sitting day of parliament before WYD and less than one week ... challenge to the government's regulations. In ruling on that challenge, the Federal Court interpreted ...

  3. John Pilger: Britain and the cause of fear and ignorance

    on the door, and women who now never go out. In effect, control orders have been served on thousands ... of the conflict, every lawless action on the part of the British state provoked a similar reaction: ... war is well under way. As Peirce points out, "internment, discredited and abandoned in Northern ...