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MIDEAST: U.S. Non-Profit Targeted Rights Group over Goldstone
Eli Clifton

WASHINGTON - A campaign of attacks against the New Israel Fund (NIF), a U.S.-based progressive organisation that supports human rights groups in Israel, has gained attention in both the Israeli and U.S. media, raising questions about the role played by foreign non-profits and non-governmental organisations in influencing Israeli government policy.

PERU: CIA, Military Trade Blame Over Missionary Plane Shootdown
Ángel Páez
LIMA - Nine years after the 2001 shootdown of a small airplane carrying U.S. missionaries over the Peruvian jungle, the CIA and the armed forces of this South American country are pointing fingers at each other over who was responsible for the fatal mistake, which cost the lives of two people.

FINANCE: Fighting Off Looters in the Ruins
Analysis by Peter Costantini
SEATTLE - Reckless greed on Wall Street is a dog-bites-man story. Still, the renewed feeding frenzy of the alpha dogs of finance in the embers of the bonfire of their own vanities has inspired amazement and disgust across the political spectrum.

Bush at War Part II

In Focus: Iraq

Economy and Trade

> Fighting Off Looters in the Ruins
> U.S. Lawmakers, NGOs Call for Debt Cancellation
> U.S. Banks Abetting Corrupt Regimes, Probe Finds
> Taiwan Arms Sale Heats up Simmering Row

> U.S. Non-Profit Targeted Rights Group over Goldstone
> CIA, Military Trade Blame Over Missionary Plane Shootdown
> Khadr Case Raises Broad Questions on Child Combatants
> Foundation for "Political Warfare" Takes Cue from U.S. Strategy

> U.S. Non-Profit Targeted Rights Group over Goldstone
> Time to Build a Just Society, Rights Groups Urge
> Landmark Case Could Restore Felon Voting Rights
> North America's Long Winter of Discontent

> Ill Omens for Senate Climate Legislation
> Desperate Residents Flee Capital, But with Hopes of Return
> Hunt for Oil Patch Bomber Takes New Twist
> Community in Crisis Looks to its Agricultural Roots

> Development Recognised as Crucial for Stability
> U.S. Lawmakers, NGOs Call for Debt Cancellation
> Iraq Lessons Ignored at Kabul Power Plant
> Obama Calls for More Development, Counterinsurgency Aid

> CIA, Military Trade Blame Over Missionary Plane Shootdown
> Khadr Case Raises Broad Questions on Child Combatants
> Foundation for "Political Warfare" Takes Cue from U.S. Strategy
> Group Urges Bahrain to Stop Torture of Detainees

> 10-Billion-Dollar Vaccine Pledge by Gates Hailed
> Local Leaders Shut Out of Military-Run Relief Efforts
> Rotavirus Vaccine Making Headway in Africa
> Social Networks Offer News, and Comfort

Media & Communications

> Lost in the Desert? There's an App for That
> Foreign News Channels Drawing U.S. Viewers
> Spat Escalates Over Internet Freedom
> Clinton Criticises China over Internet Censorship

Multilateralism Under Siege

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RIGHTS: Legal Experts Slam "Targeted Killings" of US Citizens

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HAITI: U.S. Lawmakers, NGOs Call for Debt Cancellation

U.S.: Bill Pledges a Billion Dollars to Fight Gender Violence

U.S.: Immigration Enforcement Prone to Abuses

U.S.: Ill Omens for Senate Climate Legislation

AFGHANISTAN: Iraq Lessons Ignored at Kabul Power Plant

POLITICS: West Treats Iran's Nuclear Offer with Caution

CORRUPTION: U.S. Banks Abetting Corrupt Regimes, Probe Finds

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More than 300 million strong, the world's indigenous peoples are beginning to make themselves heard, in international arenas like the new United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, and at the national level, where their growing numbers are translating into political muscle. Via its local writers, IPS endeavours to transmit these indigenous voices and untangle their issues for a global audience

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