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Early in President Bush's recent public relations campaign to rebuild support for the US war effort in Iraq, Vice President Cheney appeared on "Meet the Press."

Just over six months later, many Iraqis are openly asking whether the end of 35 years of Saddam Hussein's tyrannical regime has brought them the benefits they expected.

America wants the world to pledge billions of dollars to Iraq's reconstruction at a donor's meeting to be held in October in Madrid. The world's answer should be an unequivocal No. by Jeffrey D. Sachs

Give or take a couple of nouns -- "bribery" and "fraud," to be precise -- here are the facts behind what Senator Edward Kennedy had to say last week about the mess in Iraq.

After two years of our "War on Terror," is the world a safer place?

Palestinians are poorer and less employed today than they were before Oslo. This "peace process" has given peace a bad name.

Michael Moore: "If you are the type of person who likes assault weapons, there is a place for you -- the United States Army. We have them."

With terrorism, the war in Iraq, and economic troubles at home to worry about, Americans may wonder, "Why should we care about a WTO meeting in Cancun, Mexico?"

The "pit" which constitutes the site of the World Trade Center remains many things to many people.

Fear is something this administration has been selling for two years. You sedate the populace with the drug of fear and maybe the electorate won't notice what a mess you have made, not only of domestic politics, but also our international relations.

Braving bullets, arrests and hot pursuit while carrying out the first scientific survey of Iraqi public opinion, pollsters commissioned by a conservative US think-tank have discovered that most Iraqis do not trust Americans and want to be left alone.

America has already killed at least thrice as many innocent civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq as were murdered in America by the 9/11 terrorists.

Donald Rumsfeld flew to Baghdad yesterday. Not to a skyline bristling with cranes but to a city where there is still no electricity for much of the day because less power is being generated than under Saddam Hussein.

They're trying to dismantle some of the original clean air and water legislation that (President) Nixon put through. They're going full bore.

In Colombia and around the world, civilians are doing work formerly done by the military

Nestled in the center of the Balidiyat district of Baghdad, Iraq, the Canal Hotel was a distinctive landmark for those who traveled on the major highway that swung through the eastern Baghdad suburbs.

Son birkaç parça kıymetli aile yadigârını piyasada satmadan önce, hükümetler Dünya Bankası'nın "Gelişmekte Olan Ülkelerde Altyapı Tesislerine Özel Katılım" raporunu okumalılar. Bu ülkelere akan büyük miktarlardaki özel yatırımın sonuçlarını inceliyor... Madelaine Drohan yazdı

The problem is not propaganda but the relentless control of the kind of things we think about

What was behind the Pentagon's screwball scheme to establish an online futures market for acts of terrorism?

As Karl Marx might have said, ''A specter is haunting Washington -- the specter of Iran-Contra''.

George W. Bush has knowingly deceived the American people on the two overriding policy issues of his presidency — the invasion of Iraq and the deep tax cuts.

At stake is more than $184 billion of pending contracts and debts against Iraq, many of which transpired before the 1991 invasion of Kuwait. By Heather Wokush

A full-page advertisement in the NY Times asks Americans to visit a new website, www.wedeservethetruth.com, and urges them to "get the truth" about the exaggerated and false intelligence on which the Administration's case for the Iraq war was based.

The European Union completed its legislative framework governing genetically modified organisms with the adoption Tuesday of two European Commission proposals.

Unsourced BBC reports, an aggressive parliamentary interrogation, the stresses of weapons inspection, a government's credibility in jeopardy, a rat's nest of deceptions - all of this together could weigh too much on one man.

The American use of depleted uranium munitions in both Persian Gulf wars has unleashed a toxic disaster that will eclipse the Agent Orange tragedy of the Vietnam War, a former top Army official said Monday evening.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, for example, was asked in a recent interview whether he still had faith in prewar intelligence claiming a link between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.

Do we want to defeat George W. because of one specific lie about Iraq, Niger, and uranium?

International programs to help poor nations develop and industrialize are failing in many countries and need radical changes if the world is to meet its targets for reducing poverty, a major United Nations report said Tuesday.

The elder President Bush in 1991, after the first war against Iraq, announced proudly: "The specter of Vietnam has been buried forever in the desert sands of the Arabian peninsula."