Protestors supporting Pfc. Bradley Manning march outside the gate of Ft. Meade, Md., Friday, Dec. 16, 2011, where Manning will be attending a hearing to determine if he will be court martialed.
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Wikileaks: Bradley Manning military hearing begins
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Defence lawyers representing the US Army analyst accused of leaking government secrets have asked the investigating officer to step aside. The request came as Private Bradley Manning, 23, appeared at a military court...
A man is checked for radiation after arriving at a vehicle decontamination center at J-Village, a soccer training complex now serving as an operation base for those battling Japan's nuclear disaster at the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, in Fukushima prefecture, Japan, Friday, Nov. 11, 2011.
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Japan says Fukushima reactors now stable
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Japan said Friday it finally had control of leaking reactors at Fukushima, in what authorities say is a vital step on the long road to recovery, nine months after its nuclear crisis began. In a live press conference, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda told the country the crippled reactors "have reached a state of cold shutdown". The government is...
US Sec. of Defense Leon Panetta, center, speaks during ceremonies marking the end of US military mission in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011.
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Rise of Constitutional Militarism
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. "...All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and the shortest means to accomplish it." -Alexis de Tocqueville It is poignant that the shot heard round the world, mentioned in Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn," came from the barrel of a...
Taji, Iraq -After completing a search of a small village north of here, U.S. Soldiers from the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade move out towards a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter to return to base, Nov. 12, 2011.
photo: US Army / Sgt. Travis Zielinski
Reflecting on Iraq as US troops withdraw
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'Three days after US tanks rolled into Baghdad in April 2003, I had my first encounter with an American marine. I opened my door to find him crouched on the street and holding a pump action shot gun. He wore full combat gear, with knee pads and a heavy pack. I couldn't see his eyes through his black glasses. But he looked nervous. I asked him if...
Russian Prime Minister and chairman of United Russia ruling party Vladimir Putin addresses the tenth United Russia Party Congress in Moscow, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin promised Thursday the country would emerge stronger from a world economic crisis he said was triggered by U.S. recklessnes
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Russia's Putin offers protesters small change
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Moscow: Vladimir Putin offered to ease slightly his tight political control of Russian politics in token concessions to protesters he suggested had been paid to turn out in the biggest demonstrations since he took power 12 years ago. In a 4-1/2 hour call-in question-and-answer show that was broadcast live across Russia and intended to rebuild...
Supporters of Syria's President Bashar Assad hold a flag with Assad's image printed on it at a demonstration in front of the Syrian Embassy in Amman, Jordan, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011.
photo: AP / Mohammad Hannon
Russia circulates new UN council draft on Syria
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Russia surprised fellow UN Security Council members on Thursday with a proposed new resolution to address the rising violence in Syria. Western members of the council who have been pressing for tough measures against President Bashar Assad's regime welcomed the move, but said it didn't go far enough because it didn't include an arms embargo or...
Republican presidential candidates from left, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, and Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., participate in a Republican presidential debate in Sioux City, Iowa, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011.
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Republican candidates begin crunch debate in Iowa
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Republican presidential candidates have begun the final TV debate in Iowa before the state's keenly anticipated nominating contest next month. With seven candidates remaining, former House...
Italian Premier Mario Monti talks to the media during a press conference at the end of a meeting in Rome's Palazzo Chigi government's headquarters, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011.
photo: AP / Andrew Medichini
Italy's Monti faces confidence vote on austerity
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ROME (Reuters) - Italy's government faces a confidence vote in parliament on Friday, a move to speed up approval of a 33-billion euro ($43 billion) austerity package intended to restore market confidence in the euro zone's third largest economy. Mario Monti's government of unelected technocrats has an overwhelming majority in both houses of...
Former French President Jacques Chirac waves to the press after a ceremony awarding laureates of the Fondation Chirac at Quai Branly Museum in Paris, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011.
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French ex-president Chirac convicted in graft trial
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PARIS (Reuters) - A judge found former French president Jacques Chirac guilty on Thursday of misusing public funds, making him the country's first head of state to be convicted since Nazi collaborator Marshal Philippe Petain in 1945. Chirac, 79, was absent from the court as the judge declared him guilty of knowingly operating a system that diverted...
File - U.S. Army Pvt. Anthony Salazar, of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, pulls security during a patrol in the Furat area of Baghdad, Iraq, May 8, 2007.
photo: US Army / Staff Sgt. Bronco Suzuki
US to lower flag to end Iraq war
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The US flag is to be lowered in Baghdad, formally marking the end of US military operations in Iraq after nearly nine years of war. Most of the 5,500...
Haaretz reported earlier this week that the French National Front was headed to Israel to stump...
- This is the third part of a three-part essay. Here, I examine the problem of institutional...
Eight years and three months after "liberating Iraq", a time of unrelenting savage strife in...
 
In this image from TV shown on the Internet made available Thursday Dec. 15, 2011, an Iraqi woman lying in a Damascus, Syria, street as men trying to retrieve the body, in this video thought to have been made Wednesday Dec. 14, 2011. The woman named Shatha al-Kubeisi is thought to have been shot by Syrian government snipers.
BEIRUTTens of thousands of Syrians, some of them calling for their president's execution, protested against the authoritarian regime on Friday, as the Arab League indefinitely postponed a meeting on the crisis because of divisions over how...
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Rwandan Callixte Mbarushimana sits in the courtroom of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday, Sept. 16, 2011.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - International Criminal Court judges dismissed charges Friday against a Rwandan rebel accused of involvement in the murder, rape and torture of Congolese villagers by a Hutu militia in 2009. The judges ordered the release of...
photo: AP / Jerry Lampen
A confirmed insurgent stronghold goes up in smoke after a strategic aerial strike during combat operations while US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines, 1st Battalion (BN), 8th Marine Regiment (1/8), search for insurgents and weapon caches during a Security and Stabilization Operation (SASO) conducted as part of Operation AL FAJR, which is an offensive operation to eradicate enemy insurgents in Fallujah, Al Anbar Province, Iraq, during Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2004.
War, we are told, is a rational instrument of policy. States go to war to achieve specific objectives. On such a view, determining the outcome of a war is a kind of bookkeeping exercise. One need only measure the results against the original...
photo: USMC / LCpl. Joel A. Chaverri
Special forces line up to examine the area in Utoya island, Norway, Sunday, July 24, 2011.
OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian police responded as quickly as possible when an anti-Islamic gunman set off a bomb in Oslo and shot dead dozens of teenagers at a summer camp in July, the head of an internal police commission assessing the response said on...
photo: AP / Frank Augstein
The Internally Displaced Persons wait for the arrival of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the Manik Farm Camp, Vavuniya, Sri Lanka, 23 May 2009
A commission set up by Sri Lanka's president to investigate the conduct of the civil war has said the government did its best to protect civilians. It concluded the military gave the "highest priority" to protecting civilians and said Tamil Tiger...
photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe
Walking from his simple palace in exile to the main temple, His Holiness the Dalai Lama's four day teaching in Dharamshala, H.P., India, on October 4, 2011. The teachings were held at the Main Tibetan Temple and were given at the request of a group from Taiwan.
Article by Yeshe Choesang, WN Correspondent Dharamshala. Dharamshala, India: - The spiritual leader of Tibet, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, expressed his desire last week to visit Burma to pay homage at the country's holiest shrine of the Shwedagon...
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Supporters of Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, known as "Carlos the Jackal," protest demanding his repatriation in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday Nov. 7, 2011.
PARIS (AP) - Carlos the Jackal, the flamboyant Venezuelan who symbolized Cold War terrorism, was sentenced to life in prison—again—in a Paris trial that ended late Thursday with him rallying for revolution and weeping for Moammar Gadhafi....
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