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On Jan. 19, the day of the Iowa caucuses, a coalition of US expatriates in Europe will begin a campaign to influence Democratic candidates. During the past year, I have noticed political dissidence building among my fellow American expatriates living in Europe and around the world. Now, their growing concern will take concrete shape here in Prague, Czech Republic, in less than two weeks. On Jan. 19 - when the US political season officially begins with the Iowa Democratic caucuses - the American Voices Abroad (AVA) coalition, a collection of American civil-liberties and antiwar organizations from around the globe, will...

BERLIN To all appearances, the Iraqi crisis has transformed German-American relations, long viewed on both sides of the Atlantic as the central element of peace and stability in Europe, into a morass of distrust and annoyance. . But in the last week or so, German officials, including Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, have tried to send messages that after the war with Iraq is over, and even during the war, Germany will show its loyalty and that the earlier close relations can be restored. . It seems that German officials, clearly worried about the anger in Washington, are trying to make...