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Fear and Paranoia as Guantánamo Marks Its Eighth Anniversary
On the eighth anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo, the fate of the 198 prisoners still held is, in many ways, no clearer than it was a year ago. …

Spitzer, Black and Partnoy | Tip of the Iceberg
In a December New York Times op-ed, we called for the full public release of AIG email messages, internal accounting documents and financial models generated in the last decade. …

Afghanistan: Necessity Isn’t Always Just
As Americans usher in a new year and new decade, they find themselves confronted with old problems: war and terror. The epicenter of these problems has shifted from Iraq …

“Bush Sold Arab States Arms in Violation of Deal With Israel“
The Bush administration violated security related agreements with Israel in which the US promised to preserve the IDF's qualitative edge over Arab armies, according to senior officials in the …

Yemen: The Mood in Sanaa
Sanaa, Yemen - In an unassuming mosque, adorned only with graffiti and ancient stained-glass windows, about 30 women and children sat on the floor, listening to a sermon. The …

The Shadow War
Making sense of the new CIA battlefield in Afghanistan. It was a Christmas and New Year’s from hell for American intelligence, that $75 billion labyrinth of at least 16 …

Iran Uses Fear of Covert Nuclear Sites to Deter Attack (2)
Washington - The New York Times reported Tuesday that Iran had “quietly hidden an increasingly large part of its atomic complex” in a vast network of tunnels and bunkers …

Iran Uses Fear of Covert Nuclear Sites to Deter Attack
Washington - The New York Times reported Tuesday that Iran had “quietly hidden an increasingly large part of its atomic complex” in a vast network of tunnels and bunkers …

“The Uh-Ohs”: A Decade of Conservative Failure
“Stuff happens.” — Donald Rumsfeld on the looting of Iraq following the U.S. invasion. Forget about “the Aughts.” Never mind “the Naughts.” The decade just passed — and …

Lawmakers Press for Geithner AIG Testimony
Washington - U.S. lawmakers on Friday pressed for Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to testify on whether the New York Federal Reserve Bank improperly pressured AIG to withhold information on …