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Desertion In the Field
Twilight of the liberal hawks
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2018

Confirmed and Confessed
Between September 29th and October 15th, fifteen days in all, I killed thirty children. Two children per day.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2021

Bush or Kerry, Osama's unmoved
"Your security does not lie in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands. Each and every state that does not tamper with our security will have automatically assured its own security." - Osama bin Laden, October 30.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2020
 
Religious divide grows amid Thai unrest
Though southern Thailand's ethnic-Malay Muslims are drawing closer together in the face of heavy-handed government tactics to quash a simmering separatist insurgency, religion is splitting them as Islamic fundamentalists, or reformists, challenge the prevailing Sufi Islam.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2019
 
Neo-conservatives determined to pull strings for four more years
The thoughts of a second-term president turn naturally to his place in history. If re-elected, George Bush will spend the next four years in mellower mode, spurning wars and giving his attention to the folks at home. Foreign-policy zealots in the White House and the Pentagon, chastened by Iraq, will retreat to think-tanks to ponder their mistakes.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2017
 
Full transcript of bin Ladin's speech
Following is the full English transcript of Usama bin Ladin's speech in a videotape sent to Aljazeera. In the interests of authenticity, the content of the transcript, which appeared as subtitles at the foot of the screen, has been left unedited.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2016
 
Election Day Fears
We have two great fears about Election Day 2004.
- The first is that George W. Bush will be elected.
- The second is that John Kerry will be elected.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2015
 
The Test for the West
It is the future unity of the ''West'' that, more than any other basic factor in contemporary global affairs, is most at stake in Tuesday's presidential elections.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2014
 
Referendum Gives Resounding 'No' to the Privatisation of Water
Uruguayan voters not only made a dramatic shift to the left in the presidential and parliamentary elections Sunday, but also approved a constitutional reform that defines water as a public good and guarantees civil society participation at every level of management of the country's water resources.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2013
 
Klein: The Manchurian cover-up
Revelations that the Carlyle Group was involved in a secret deal to profit from Iraq's debt have vanished under a spell of silence
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2012
 
Why we are still backing Arafat
Palestinians value their democracy and won't accept a pliant successor
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2011
 
Day of the Dead: The Haunting of the White House
Something is rising from the ashes of September 11: the spectre of questions that will haunt our country until answered.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2024
 
Australia: new bipartisan assault on basic legal rights
In the wake of the October 9 federal elections, Australian Attorney-General Philip Ruddock has wasted little time in unveiling a new escalation of the Howard government’s war on democratic rights. Speaking on national television on October 24, barely two weeks after the government’s victory, Ruddock declared that three national security bills would be ushered through national parliament during November, on the pretext of combatting terrorism.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2023
 
Outrage over murder of Thai Muslim demonstrators
The deaths of dozens of protestors on October 25 at the hands of the Thai security forces, and the horrifying manner in which they died, has unleashed fury in the predominantly Muslim provinces of southern Thailand and condemnation across the country and internationally.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2022
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