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Iraq Courts Order 20,000 Freed Under Amnesty www.wiredispatch.com/news/?id=222699 Kristol: Bush Might Attack Iran if He Thinks Obama Will Win www.rawstory.com/news08/2008/06/22/kristol-bush-might-attack-iran-if-he-thinks-obama-will-win/ Britain Admits Using Thermobaric Weapons in Afghanistan www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23904133-2703,00.html FISA Is Only the Prelude to Nightmare www.powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2008/06/no-one-is-safe-ii-fisa-is-only-prelude.html My Trip to the West Bank www.cs.princeton.edu/~chazelle/politics/wb08-travel.html \ North Korea Invites TV Crews for Nuclear Sho wwww.wiredispatch.com/news/?id=222585 Baghdad Squatters Told to Leave Occupied Homes www.wiredispatch.com/news/?id=222806 Bush 'War Crimes Conference' to Convene in Mass., Plan Prosecution of Admin. Officials http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Bush_war_crimes_conference_to_convene_0622.html America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. ~Abraham Lincoln Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later. ~Benjamin Franklin Political language ... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ~George Orwell The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. ~George Orwell The myth of 'weapons-grade' enrichment Amid disclosures of an Israeli dummy run for an air offensive against Iran's nuclear installations, much of the Western media recycle the lines that Tehran is actively pursuing nuclear weapons and that it has amassed "weapons-grade" enriched uranium. The United Nations' nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, has never said this, and this after thousands of hours inspecting Iran's facilities since 2003. www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JF24Ak04.html Haaretz.com TV: East J'lem Arabs pay taxes, lack running water http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/995124.html Amir Oren: Israel may conclude that it's time to hit Iran by autumn http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/995193.html\