Shia Strength: [shia_strength] The Coming Breakup of American Zionism

Israel 'a Totally Racist Government': Ahmadinejad

By Press TV

Addressing a UN anti-racism confab Iran's president minces no words in calling Israel 'a totally racist government' formed on the back of 'military aggression'.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22453.htm

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UN Protects Israel From Racism Charges

By Nora Barrows-Friedman

Israel-Palestine has been deliberately eliminated from the official programme, structured by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN OHCHR). Civil society groups believe that the United States, countries within the European Union and Israel pressured the UN to omit a review of Israel's racial discrimination against Palestinians.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22458.htm

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In Case You Missed It

The Coming Breakup of American Zionism

By Norman Finkelstein

Independent scholar and author, Norman Finkelstein, speaking at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. The title of the lecture is "The Coming Breakup of American Zionism".
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22450.htm

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CIA Waterboarded al-Qaida Suspects 266 Times

By Matthew Weaver and agencies

The CIA waterboarded two al-Qaida terror suspects a total of 266 times, according to a report that suggests the use of the torture technique was much more extensive than previously thought.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22451.htm

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Obama Reprieve For CIA Illegal: U.N. Rapporteur

By Mark Heinrich; Editing by Robert Woodward

President Barack Obama's decision not to prosecute CIA interrogators who used waterboarding on terrorism suspects amounts to a breach of international law, the U.N. rapporteur on torture said.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22447.htm

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Will Obama Wash Bush's Dirty Laundry?

"President Obama, You Are Wrong"

By Keith Olbermann:

MSNBC's Keith Olbermann's "Special Comment" Takes on President Obama's decision not to prosecute CIA Interrogators for torture.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22460.htm

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Behind the US Banks' Profit Reports

By Barry Grey

The banks are continuing, with the blessings of the Obama administration, the same predatory policies that generated massive fortunes on Wall Street and eventually plunged the US and world economy into the deepest crisis since the Great Depression.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22448.htm

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'America Lives in a Fascist State' - Trend Forecaster

By Russia Today

The merger of corporate and government powers in modern America is plain and simple fascism, believes Gerald Celente, the founder of the Trends Research Institute and publisher of Trends Journal.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22449.htm

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Bailout Indignation

How about a test of your injustice barometer?

By Ralph Nader

You might think that the reckless, avaricious, giant corporations, having shrunk the economy, cost millions of jobs and then demanded that taxpayers be dunned for years into the future for multi-trillion dollar bailouts, would show contrition, regret, or self-restraint of their power over Washington.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22457.htm

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Empire Foreclosed?

By Mark Engler

One current danger is that Obama, while rejecting the brash unilateralism of the Bush administration and pulling back the fist of U.S. hard power, will return to a softer form of imperial power. Under Bill Clinton, the United States used multilateral institutions such as the IMF, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization (WTO) as primary instruments of foreign policy. While staffed with economists in business suits rather than grunts in fatigues, these bodies exerted considerable control over foreign peoples.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22459.htm

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The Tower of Basel

Secretive Plans for the Issuing of a Global Currency

By Ellen Brown

Do we really want the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) issuing our global currency?
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22455.htm

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Sources: Wiretap Recorded Rep. Harman Promising to Intervene for AIPAC

By Jeff Stein, CQ SpyTalk Columnist

Rep. Jane Harman , the California Democrat with a longtime involvement in intelligence issues, was overheard on an NSA wiretap telling a suspected Israeli agent that she would lobby the Justice Department to reduce espionage-related charges against two officials of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, the most powerful pro-Israel organization in Washington.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22454.htm

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The West's Hysterical Reaction to North Korea

By Scott Ritter

While both North Korea and Iran have come under strong international criticism and sanctions for their respective nuclear and missile activities, it should be noted that neither nation has acted in a manner which violates international law.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22446.htm

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25 security personnel among 27 killed in Hangu suicide blast:

Twenty-seven people were killed including 25 security personnel and scores others injured in a suicide attack at a security check post here on Saturday.
http://paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=213824

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12 militants killed in operation in Pakistan's tribal area:

Pakistani security forces have killed 12 militants in Orakzai Agency, one of the seven Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in Pakistan, according to local TV reports Sunday.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-04/19/content_11217440.htm

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US Attack Kills Women, Children :

As many as eight people, including women and children were killed and several others injured in the suspected US drone attack on Gangi Khel area of Wana, headquarters of South Waziristan Agency on Sunday morning, locals said.
http://www.onlinenews.com.pk/details.php?id=144125

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Pakistan must do more to fight Taliban: US:

Pakistan must do more to 'erase' Taliban bases inside its territory, which are destabilising the entire region, US commander of Western troops in Afghanistan General David McKiernan said on Sunday.
http://snipurl.com/site/index

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Attacks Kill 6 In Afghanistan:

Insurgents attacked Afghan policemen in three separate incidents in southern Afghanistan, killing three officers and wounding eight, while roadside bombs killed three civilians, officials said Monday.
http://snipurl.com/gav9j

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Two civilians among 18 killed in Afghan violence:

Eighteen people including two civilians were killed in violence across insurgency-hit Afghanistan, officials said on Saturday.
http://snipurl.com/gavbf

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US Occupation Force Soldier Killed In Afghanistan:

PFC Richard A. Dewater, 21, of Topeka, Kan., died April 15, of wounds sustained from an improvised explosive device, while on a dismounted patrol near Korengal Valley, Afghanistan.
http://snipurl.com/gaeu1

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Twelve Iraqis killed in suicide attack in Baquba:

A man killed 11 people and himself when he detonated explosives strapped to his body near the mayor's office in the Iraqi city of Baquba on Monday, medics and police said.
http://snipurl.com/gaffo

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Shootings kill 2 Iraqi security officials:

Gunmen killed senior Iraqi police and intelligence officers in two weekend shootings in southeastern Baghdad, while a roadside bombing wounded five people, an Interior Ministry official said Sunday.
http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/19/weekend-shootings-kill-2-iraqi-security-officials/

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US suicidal veterans surpassing KIAs:

According to US medics, with 23 soldiers committing suicide in January, the number of those killed themselves was higher than the number of soldiers killed in combat-related incidents.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=92019§ionid=3510203

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Ahmadinejad calls for release of kidnapped diplomats in Iraq:

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a meeting with his counterpart from Switzerland Hance Rodoulf Merets on Monday called for immediate release of five Iranian diplomats abducted by US forces in Iraq.
http://www.irna.ir/En/View/FullStory/?NewsId=445236&IdLanguage=3

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Ahmadinejad: UNSC has given Zionists liberty to commit crimes:

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the International Durban Review Conference (Durban II) on Monday that United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has in the past 60 years supported the occupier Zionist regime and given it the liberty to commit any crime.
http://www.irna.ir/En/View/FullStory/?NewsId=445568&IdLanguage=3

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Durban delegates storm out in protest of Ahmadinejad speech:

The diplomats rose from their chairs and walked out of the hall in Geneva as Ahmadinejad launched a tirade against the Israeli government. The Iranian leader also blasted the United States for its invasion of Iraq.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1079592.html

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Iran's president makes rare intervention in US reporter's case:

In a rare intervention, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday warned the judiciary to ensure that US-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi has "all freedoms and legal rights" to defend herself from espionage charges.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0419/p06s07-wome.html

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Israel stands ready to bomb Iran :

The Israeli military is preparing itself to launch a massive aerial assault on Iran's nuclear facilities within days of being given the go-ahead by its new government.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6115903.ece

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What would be the timetable for Israel strike on Iran?:

The timing of Saturday's Times of London article, which claimed that the Israel Defense Forces is training for an attack on Iran on very short notice, is certainly no coincidence
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1079197.html

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Israelis warn of Eritrea flashpoint:

Israel is said to have two Eritrean bases, one a "listening post" for signals intelligence, the other a supply base for its German-built submarines.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6122337.ece

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US threatens Eritrea over support for al-Qaeda-linked terrorists:

The US has warned Eritrea it risks American military action for its support for a Somalian terrorist group linked to a plot to attack President Barack Obama.
http://snipurl.com/gavl2

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Eritrea becoming 'a giant prison':

Sixteen years after it won independence from Ethiopia following a three-decade war, Eritrea is one of the most closed and repressive states in the world, says the report.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8002178.stm

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UN official warns of dire humanitarian situation in Gaza:

The sweeping Israeli ban on the import of construction materials, spare parts for public infrastructure and the industrial sector in Gaza, along with restrictions on the entry of cash, has prevented work to start on almost all of the planned early recovery projects, according to last month's report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on the situation in Gaza.
http://pakistantimes.net/2009/04/20/top10.htm

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U.S.: Palestinians need not recognize Israel as Jewish state before talks:

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as the state of the Jewish people as a condition for renewing peace talks is unacceptable to the United States, the State Department said during special envoy George Mitchell's visits over the weekend to Ramallah and Cairo.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1079213.html

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Gaza: Hamas Should End Killings, Torture:

Hamas should end its attacks on political opponents and suspected collaborators in Gaza, which have killed at least 32 Palestinians and maimed several dozen more during and since the recent Israeli military offensive, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/04/20/gaza-hamas-should-end-killings-torture

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Israeli "settlers" claim Golan Heights 'forever':

Israel -- technically still at war with Syria since 1948 -- occupied the Golan in the 1967 Six-Day War and annexed it in 1981 in a move never recognised by the international community.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090419/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictgolansettler

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Head of UN nuclear watchdog optimistic over Iran:

The head of the United Nations atomic watchdog said here Monday he was optimistic about efforts to end a stand-off over Iran's nuclear drive, following positive moves from Tehran and Washington.
http://snipurl.com/gavrz

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Chavez Gives Obama A History Book: :

Chavez gave Obama a copy of "The Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent," a book by Eduardo Galeano, which chronicles U.S. and European economic and political interference in the region.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/18/chavez-gives-obama-a-book_n_188582.html

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UK: Secret police intelligence was given to E.ON before planned demo:

Government officials handed confidential police intelligence about environmental activists to the energy giant E.ON before a planned peaceful demonstration, according to private emails seen by the Guardian.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/20/police-intelligence-e-on-berr

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CIA fears torture prosecutions:

Only some of the secrets of US 'ghost' prisons have been revealed
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6122483.ece

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CIA torture exemption 'illegal':

US President Barack Obama's decision not to prosecute CIA agents who used torture tactics is a violation of international law, a UN expert says.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8006597.stm

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Torture memos reveal brutality of US imperialism:

The release of the legal opinions, written by lawyers in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel in 2002 and 2005, adds to an overwhelming body of evidence that proves the Bush administration carried out a large-scale and systematic torture operation in flagrant violation of domestic and international law.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/apr2009/memo-a18.shtml

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In quotes: George W. Bush on torture:

From a commitment to the worldwide elimination of torture to a defence of waterboarding: President Bush in his own words
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6113167.ece

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Ex-CIA chief: Obama risks national security:

A former head of the CIA slammed President Obama on Sunday for releasing four Bush-era memos, saying the new president has compromised national security.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/19/cia.torture.chief/index.html

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Exxon Mobil tops Fortune 500:

Exxon Mobil (XOM, Fortune 500) was the top selling-company in 2008, with nearly $443 billion in revenue, a jump of almost 19% from the prior year. The Irving, Texas-based oil giant was also the most profitable, with earnings of $45.2 billion.
http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/15/news/companies/fortune500/

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Predators starve as we plunder oceans:

Starving sea life - from whales to puffins, tuna to seals - is being found all over the world's oceans, as the food on which it depends is being fished out, startling new evidence shows. And much of the depletion, ironically, is caused by raising captive fish - for the table.
http://snipurl.com/gavyl

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