How They See Us
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Taking stock of a ‘special relationship’
feature Will Britain scrap the phrase most often used to describe British-U.S. ties?
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WikiLeaks exposes U.S. war crimes
feature The U.S. military logs from the Afghan conflict recently made public by WikiLeaks reveal a staggering toll of innocent lives.
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Did Facebook insult Islam?
feature An American cartoonist recently launched a Facebook group designating May 20 as “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day.”
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WikiLeaks reveals Pakistan’s treachery
feature The thousands of U.S. military logs published by WikiLeaks reveals that Pakistan is engaged in double-crossing the United States and Afghanistan.
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Excluding the U.S. from the Americas
feature Latin America has just created a new bloc, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, which excludes the U.S. and Canada. It is envisioned as the primary forum for regional cooperation.
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Coming to terms with Pakistan’s nukes
feature While Washington is fairly confident that Pakistan has adequate physical security measures around its nuclear facilities, it still worries that Pakistan's military and intelligence services could be infiltrated by terrorist sympathizers.
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Mexicans aren’t welcome in Arizona
feature What Mexico thinks about Arizona's new immigration law.
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Unfairly blaming Pakistan
feature Pakistanis react to the failed Times Square bombing.
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How they see us: Sending Noriega to France
feature The U.S. is extraditing Manuel Noriega to France instead of Panama, a move the former dictator spent the last three years fighting and one that prevents a full accounting of his crimes in his own country.
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Was Iranian defector a double agent?
feature Shahram Amiri, an Iranian nuclear scientist, disappeared in May 2009 and recently resurfaced at the Pakistani Embassy in Washington, D.C., claiming to have been kidnapped and tortured by the CIA.
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Only America is helping Pakistan
feature In the two weeks since monsoon floods submerged 20 percent of the country, some $100 million has been pledged in aid—more than half of it from the U.S.
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A U.S. ‘terrorist’ finds no mercy in Peru
feature Released on parole in May after serving 15 years of a 20-year sentence, Lori Berenson was sent back to prison this week because she failed to properly notify police of a change in address.
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How they see us: Is Middle East peace a U.S. delusion?
feature Both Israelis and Palestinians voice doubt that a solution to the region's problems is at hand.
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How they see us: Suddenly noticing Mexico’s drug war
feature With the deaths of two Americans killed by drug dealers in Juárez, the U.S. finally feels the weight of Mexico's drug war, a war fueled primarily by U.S. weapons and the U.S. market for drugs.
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