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Jonathan Weisman and Amy Goldstein, Washington Post Michael Lind, Financial Times Paul Craig Roberts, Antiwar.com Susan B. Glasser and Josh White, Washington Post Patrick Cockburn, The Independent |
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The self-proclaimed Prince of Pot, faces extradition for seed sales — a crime that isn't prosecuted in Canada — and up to life in prison if convicted by a U.S. court. Amy Carmichael, Globe and Mail
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U.S. and Iraqi troops swept into the insurgent stronghold of Tal Afar early Saturday, conducting house-to-house searches and battering down walls with armored vehicles. Jacob Silberberg, AP
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For the second time since the USA Patriot Act broadened the FBI's power to demand private records in secret, a federal judge ruled yesterday that it is unconstitutional for the government to impose an automatic and permanent ban on public disclosure of any case in which it uses that power. Barton Gellman, Washington Post
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After the political tidal wave of 1994 swept conservatives into control of Congress, Republicans doggedly tried -- and repeatedly failed -- to repeal a Depression-era law that requires federal contractors to pay workers the prevailing wages in their communities. Eleven days after the deluge of Hurricane Katrina, President Bush banished the requirement, at least temporarily, with the stroke of his pen. Jonathan Weisman and Amy Goldstein, Washington Post
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To Democrats, Republicans, local officials and Hurricane Katrina's victims, the question was not why, but what took so long? Elisabeth Bumiller, New York Times
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Ukraine's ousted prime minister, Yulia V. Tymoshenko, said Friday that the partnership that led the "Orange Revolution" last year was over and that she would no longer support the man who fired her, President Viktor A. Yushchenko. Steven Lee Myers and Seth Mydans, New York Times
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Stymied in its effort to rally a worldwide coalition to press Iran, the Bush administration has opened an unusual diplomatic struggle with Russia, China and India to have Iran's suspected nuclear weapons activities brought before the United Nations Security Council for possible sanctions. Steven R. Weisman, New York Times
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President George W. Bush, under fierce criticism for his government's slow response to Hurricane Katrina, sought to reassure storm survivors on Monday as a veteran lawmaker complained that bureaucratic red tape was hampering relief efforts in Mississippi. Tabassum Zakaria, Reuters
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The starkly different verdicts on Bush's stewardship of the two biggest crises of his presidency underscore the deepening polarization of the electorate that has occurred on his watch. Dan Balz, Washington Post
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September 2005 could go down in history as the month in which Iraq policy finally turned around. Robert Dreyfuss, Tom Paine
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The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
Jack Anderson
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In the Floods, Parties' Agendas Surface
