How They See Us
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Obama reaches out to Cuba, Venezuela
feature Will President Obama's open-mindedness and popularity end the anti-American rhetoric?
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Should we keep lending to America?
feature Will China receive anything in return for lending the United States so much money?
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Talking to the junta in Myanmar
feature Sen. Jim Webb became the first top U.S. official to meet Than Shwe, the head of Myanmar’s ruling military junta, when he traveled to the country to win the release of John Yettaw.
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Using mercenaries in ‘death squads’
feature Recently released U.S. government reports show that under the Bush administration the CIA hired contractors from the private firm Blackwater to participate in “death squads” intended to hunt suspected al Qaida terrorists.<
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Meddling in Afghan elections
feature Foreigners are “making a mockery” of our presidential election, said Afghanistan’s Weesa in an editorial.
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Extraditing an autistic hacker
feature Gary McKinnon, a 43-year-old Scot with Asperger’s syndrome, hacked into nearly 100 Pentagon and NASA computers and now faces extradition to the U.S. to stand trial.
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Getting through to North Korea
feature Is Bill Clinton's visit to Pyongyang the start of a new dialogue with North Korea?
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How they see us: Is universal health care un-American?
feature The biggest trouble is the attitude of American patients—they expect the best from their medical providers and don't seem to realize that their health care is already rationed.
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U.S. troops to use Colombian bases
feature The presidents of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) called a summit to debate the U.S.-Colombian agreement to give U.S. troops access to Colombian military bases for the fight against terrorism and drug trafficking.
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The U.S. again does Israel’s bidding
feature Has the Obama administration given up trying to rein in Israel? asked Lebanon’s Daily Star in an editorial.
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Must India play second fiddle to China?
feature India's uneasy reaction to the growing ties between the U.S. and China.
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Demonizing Muslims after Fort Hood
feature When it was reported that the U.S. Army psychiatrist who allegedly committed a massacre in Fort Hood was a Muslim, that became the most important facet of the story for the U.S. media, said an editorial in Saudi Arabia’s Arab
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Turning the world against Iran
feature Mohamed ElBaradei has caved to the Americans by having the IAEA pass a resolution demanding a halt to the uranium enrichment facility near Qom.
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Turmoil over U.S. bases in Japan
feature The Japanese want U.S. military bases on Okinawa moved to a less-populated part of the island or to a location outside of Japan.
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