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Foreign Policy

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AP

The Bush administration warned against threats by terrorist groups against US commercial and military satellites, and discounted the need for a treaty aimed at preventing an arms race in space. [it's getting wierd]

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BBC

Whatever the reasons behind it, Prince Turki's departure leaves a void in US-Saudi relations at a moment when the Middle East faces crises on several fronts, our correspondent says.

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by US Rep. Ron Paul, M.D. (R-TX)

The media, Congress, and the American public all seem to have accepted something that is patently untrue: namely, that foreign policy is the domain of the president and not Congress. This is absolutely not the case and directly contrary to what our

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AP

[They didn't accomplish much else, but ...] The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday approved legislation that is a major step toward allowing the sale of American-made nuclear reactors and fuel to India.

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ABC News

The recommendations are not complete yet, but sources familiar with the reviews conducted by Joints Cheifs Chairman Peter Pace and National Security Adviser Steven Hadley, tell ABC News that military leaders will advise the president

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Arms Control Today

The US withdrew from the landmark 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty on June 13. Little pageantry or protest marked the US move abrogating the treaty and its prohibition against nationwide missile defenses, despite often fierce debate on the accord w

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by Doug Bandow (AntiWar)

So far from God, so close to the United States, runs the classic Mexican complaint. These days virtually everyone in Latin America seems to believe that the U.S. is too close. The average Central or South American politician wants an embrace by Washi

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Daily Telegraph

A senior American official has spoken of "the myth of the special relationship" between the United States and Britain, arguing that Tony Blair got "nothing, no payback" for supporting President George W Bush in Iraq.

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AP

Hurt by election losses back home, President Bush tried to exert his authority on the world stage by warning a nuclear-armed North Korea against peddling its weapons and vowing the US would not retreat into isolationism.

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NY Times

Since President Hugo Chávez returned to power after a brief coup, the US has channeled millions of dollars to Venezuelan organizations, many of them critical of his government. A key issue in their presidential election amid American interference in

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TruthDig

Former NY Times Mideast bureau chief argues that America’s failure in Iraq and Israel’s humiliation in Lebanon have emboldened and empowered those in the Arab world who seek to topple US-backed regimes in the Middle East and cripple the Jewish state.

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(With Saddam getting ready to hang, it's interesting that this has happened before, with a different "tyrannt" in Baghdad) 40 years ago, the CIA, under Kennedy conducted its own regime change in Baghdad, carried out in collabration with

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by Ashraf Fahim (Asia Times)

6 years of uncommon obstinacy has been particularly corrosive to the administration's stated goals the Middle East. Bush's vanity has set Iraq on fire, sentenced the Arab-Israeli peace process to death by neglect, indirectly sparked a nascent

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by Matthew Yglesias (Am. Prospect)

Last week the Bush administration announced a new National Space Strategy, which called for unilateral American military hegemony over outer space. Having failed to kill Osama bin Laden, or stabilize Iraq, or resolve issues relating to Iranian and No

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by Doug Bandow (Am. Spectator)

Even Bush administration officials admit that Washington has only bad choices in dealing with N. Korea. The U.S. should stop repeating the failed policies of the past. Step one might seem counterintuitive, but is essential: get out of South Korea.

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BBC

The US state department official who said that the US had shown "arrogance" and "stupidity" in Iraq has apologised for his comments. Alberto Fernandez, who made the remarks with Arabic TV station al-Jazeera

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Consortiumnews

But these appeals from the RNC and Bush ignore US intelligence information indicting that what al-Qaeda really wants is for the US to remain bogged down in Iraq so the terrorist band can use the American occupation to recruit and train

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