US Has Won a Huge Victory
US Aircraft and Elite Navy SEALs Defeat Three Somalis in a Lifeboat
By Glen Ford
What a weekend for American foreign policy! The United States Navy, backed up by warships from 20 other nations, knocked off three Somali guys crouching with rifles in a lifeboat tied by a rope to a U.S. destroyer. To hear the U.S. corporate media tell it, the Americans had won a huge victory over the forces of evil.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22424.htm
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The Press is Relishing the Killing of Three Teenage Pirates With Disturbing Zeal
By Chris Nolan, Majikthise.
The American public is relishing the deaths of the pirates to a degree that's downright unseemly.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22426.htm
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Toxic Waste' Behind Somali Piracy
By Najad Abdullahi
Somali pirates have accused European firms of dumping toxic waste off the Somali coast and are demanding an $8m ransom for the return of a Ukranian ship they captured, saying the money will go towards cleaning up the waste.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22428.htm
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Rethink Afghanistan documentary
Will the War in Afghanistan Help Me Get a Job?
Cost of War, part three of Rethink Afghanistan documentary, which delves into the financial costs of this broadening war.
http://rethinkafghanistan.com/?utm_source=rgemail
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Iran: S-300 missile deal on track
Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Mahdi Safari says the contract to buy Russia's S-300 advance missile system is still on track. "After all, these are purely defensive weapons, and any country has the right to buy them. I believe this could only worry those states that have plans to attack others," he said.
http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=91543§ionid=351020101
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UK MP: No peace without Hamas
A group of British lawmakers have met with Hamas leader Khalid Mashaal in Damascus amid signs of Britain's policy change in the Middle East. The meeting took place on Wednesday between Mashaal and a team of nine British Parliamentarians led by Roger Godsiff of the Labour Party.
http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=91546§ionid=351020202
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Hezbollah hits back at Egypt
The movement's deputy leader Sheikh Naeem Qassem said on Wednesday that Egypt's allegations that Hezbollah is seeking to destabilize the country are totally unfounded and baseless. The Hezbollah official said, "The Egyptian regime wants revenge and is seeking to sully Hezbollah's image", but "It has become clear to everyone that these accusations are fabricated ... and that they are worthless." Egypt's anti-Hezbollah campaign began after Hezbollah criticized Cairo for its performance during the 22-day Israeli war in the Gaza Strip.
http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=91541§ionid=351020203
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Anatomy of Bush's Torture 'Paradigm'
By Ray McGovern
The prose of the recently leaked report of the International Committee of the Red Cross on torture seems colorless. It is at the same time obscene - almost pornographic.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22422.htm
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Can Spain Really Prosecute George W. Bush Aides Over Torture?
By Johanna Neuman
Spain argues that it has jurisdiction in the case because five Spanish prisoners at Guantanamo Bay allege they were tortured. And human rights organizations in the United States agree.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22420.htm
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Lessons from Latin America
Peru's Shining Example
By James McEnteer
Peru's Supreme Court sentenced former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori to twenty-five years in prison last week for creating death squads during his presidency - from 1990 to 2000 - which murdered dozens of people.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22423.htm
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94 Years of Serfdom
By Paul Craig Roberts
The only free Americans today are those who can work off the books or who can live on public welfare.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22421.htm
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Is America the New Russia?
By Martin Wolf
Is the US Russia? The question seems provocative, if not outrageous. Yet the person asking it is Simon Johnson, former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund and a professor at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22429.htm
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Welcome to the New "New World Order"
Video
Pepe Escobar: There will be class war, there will be blood.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22419.htm
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Wall Street Sharks Circle the UAW
By John R. MacArthur
Barack Obama's commitment to helping labor has always been suspect, but handing over the American car business to the investment banker Steven Rattner might well turn the president into the last great union buster.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22430.htm
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Defending the Indefensible
Israel, Gaza, and Idolatry
By Thaddeus J. Kozinsi
For an Israeli to defend its nation's actions "right or wrong" can be chalked up to fanatical nationalism, but why would Americans do so, and American Christians for that matter!
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22427.htm
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Avoiding World Conference on Racism Shows Obama's Disrespect For Blacks
By Glen Ford
"Blacks get nothing from Obama's White House except permission to worship him as the ultimate role model."
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22425.htm
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16 killed in Pakistan suicide bombing: :
At least 16 people, including 10 policemen, were killed and several injured Wednesday in a suicide bombing in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, officials said.
http://snipurl.com/fyriw
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Errant Drone Attacks Spur Militants in Pakistan:
The U.S. programme of drone aircraft strikes against higher-ranking officials of al Qaeda and allied militant organisations, which has been touted by proponents as having eliminated nine of the 20 top al Qaeda leaders, is actually weakening Pakistan's defence against the insurgency of the Islamic militants there by killing large numbers of civilians based on faulty intelligence and discrediting the Pakistani military, according to data from the Pakistani government and interviews with senior analysts.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46511
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U.S. Criticizes Pakistan's Deal On Islamic Law:
The Obama administration said Pakistan's imposition of Islamic law in a northwest valley to quell a Taliban insurgency undermines human rights, while a visiting U.S. senator urged the country to "ratchet up" its urgency in the terror fight.
http://snipurl.com/fyrlm
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At least 11 killed in oil-rich Kirkuk:
"The policemen were travelling home on a bus when they were targeted by a suicide car bomber," Lieutenant-Colonel Ghazi Mohammad Rashid, a police spokesman, said.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/04/2009415144720105851.html
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Iraq war: Gordon Brown aims to delay inquiry report until after election:
Ministers have decided that the inquiry should be wide-ranging, possibly dating back to Margaret Thatcher's tacit support for Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s. Its main focus will be on the conduct of the 2003 war and the breakdown of law and order afterwards
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/apr/14/iraq-war-inquiry-brown-hussein
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Iran offers deal on nuclear dispute:
Iran's president has said that Tehran will offer a new package to world powers for negotiations aimed at resolving the standoff over its nuclear programme.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/04/200941513273061690.html
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Israel will not cooperate with UN Gaza inquiry: -
Israel does not plan to cooperate with a U.N. agency's investigation into alleged war crimes by Israeli troops and Hamas militants during fighting in Gaza, an Israeli government official said on Wednesday.
http://www.reuters.com/article/homepageCrisis/idUSLF401659._CH_.2400
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Aid Rots Outside Gaza:
Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of aid intended for the Gaza Strip is piling up in cities across Egypt's North Sinai region, despite recent calls from the United Nations to ease aid flow restrictions to the embattled territory in the wake of Operation Cast Lead.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46504
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Hezbollah alleges Egypt vendetta:
Cairo's claims are "fabricated" to "sully Hezbollah's image", Sheikh Naim Qassem told AFP news agency.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8000427.stm
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Rabbi-in-chief: Barack Obama's Jewish connection:
Rabbi Capers Funnye is in a tiny minority in the US: he's an African-American Jew. He's also Michelle Obama's cousin and has the ear of the US president. Zev Chafets meets the charismatic leader who wants mainstream Judaism to accept that Israelites don't have to be white.
http://snipurl.com/fyrrs
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'1,500 farmers commit mass suicide in India:
"Farmers' suicides are increasing due to a vicious circle created by money lenders. They lure farmers to take money but when the crops fail, they are left with no option other than death."
http://snipurl.com/fyrt2
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Report: U.N. spent U.S. funds on shoddy projects:
Federal prosecutors in New York City were forced to drop criminal and civil cases because the U.N. officials have immunity, according to the report. USAID has scaled back its dealings with the U.N. and hired a collection agency to seek $7.6 million back, Deputy Administrator James Bever said. The aid agency hasn't heeded its inspector general's request to sever all ties.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-04-14-un-probe_N.htm
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Guantanamo Detainee Claims Abuse:
Mohammad al-Qurani, a Chadian national, said in a phone call to Al Jazeera that the alleged ill-treatment "started about 20 days" before Barack Obama became US president and "since then I've been subjected to it almost every day".
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/04/2009414233431153300.html
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Obama Tilts to CIA on Memos:
Top Officials at Odds Over Whether to Withhold Some Details on Interrogation Tactics
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123975168816518691.html
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ACLU fears Obama Administration may destroy evidence at CIA 'black sites':
The Bush Administration's legacy of torture interrogation may dip further into obscurity if the Obama Administration's vow to decommission overseas detention black sites means evidence of torture would be destroyed.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Detainee_seeks_torture_evidence_0414.html
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Obama administration issues warning over right-wing extremists:
Leaked homeland security memo says radicals may recruit Iraq and Afghanistan veterans
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/15/homeland-security-memo-right-wing-radicals
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UK: Racist escapes terror charge after threat to behead and bomb Muslims:
MacGregor, 35, has admitted threatening to blow up Scotland's biggest mosque and to behead one Muslim a week until every mosque was shut down.
http://www.scotsman.com/latestnews/Racist-escapes--terror-charge.5169939.jp
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Internet privacy: Britain in the dock:
'Big Brother' state comes under fire as European Commission launches inquiry into secret surveillance of web users
http://snipurl.com/fyrz4
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New wave of job losses feared across Europe:
In Switzerland the country's biggest bank, UBS, is reportedly planning to axe up to 10,000 more jobs as early as next week as it struggles to regain profitability - and credibility.
http://snipurl.com/fys09
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Foreclosures Soar in March, Up 44 Percent Over February's High: -
Completed foreclosures hit another monthly record in March as 175,199 homes were lost to foreclosure, up 44 percent from February's record high, according to the latest U.S. Foreclosure Index released today by ForeclosureS.com, a leading real estate information provider.
http://snipurl.com/fys1k
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US economy goes back to 1955 as deflation returns:
The US economy has begun to deflate for the first time in more than half a century as a slump in demand pushes energy and food costs lower.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/apr/15/us-economy-deflation-recession
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