A Call to Disarm
Inconvenient Truths of US Pakistan policy
By William A. Cohn
In our fervor to fight, we are facilitating the most likely scenario for nuclear devastation.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22655.htm
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Obama's Great Afghanistan Gamble
By Robert Dreyfuss
Everyone knows 17,000 more troops can't win the war in Afghanistan. So what's the exit strategy?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22662.htm
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"If you can't outbreed the enemy, cull `em."
Terrorism Breeds Terrorism
By Paul Balles
It's time to stop making excuses for American military barbarism abroad. It's time to stop creating terrorists by US terrorism in the Middle East.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22653.htm
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Chasing Ghosts in Afghanistan and Iraq
What Was I Fighting For?
By Rick Reyes
We would ransack homes, destroying windows and doors, chairs and tables, families and lives--detaining and arresting anyone who seemed suspicious. The problem, of course, was that it was impossible to distinguish militant Taliban members or Al Qaeda from innocent civilians. Everyone became a suspect.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22660.htm
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Anti-American?
Ads You Won't See In The US Or Online
By Nicholas Carlson
History is written by the winners.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22651.htm
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Rumsfeld and Cheney: Torture as Self-justification
By Jeff Sparrow
"He's a ruthless little bastard. You can be sure of that." So said Richard Nixon, a man who knew something about ruthlessness and bastardry, about Donald Rumsfeld back in 1971.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22654.htm
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Colin Powell Got Snookered at CIA
By Ray McGovern:
How was it, that Secretary Powell ended up citing a "sinister nexus between Iraq and the al-Qaeda terrorist network" to depict a relationship that did not exist? Fair labeling: Reading what follows may not make you quite as ill as reading the Department of Justice torture memos, but it may well sicken-and anger-you just the same.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22661.htm
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Unexceptional Americans:
Why We Can't See the Trees or the Forest
The Torture Memos and Historical Amnesia
By Noam Chomsky
Torture has been routinely practiced from the early days of the conquest of the national territory, and continued to be used as the imperial ventures of the "infant empire" -- as George Washington called the new republic -- extended to the Philippines, Haiti, and elsewhere.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22659.htm
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Bibi and Israel at Dead End
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Netanyahu wants Obama to commit to go to war if necessary to denuclearize Iran, but he cannot force Obama to fight a war he cannot want. Obama wants Netanyahu to accept a Palestinian state with its capital in East Jerusalem, but lacks the clout in his own country and Congress to force Netanyahu to comply.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22650.htm
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Israel Knows That Peace Just Doesn't Pay
By Amira Hass
Successive Israeli governments since 1993 certainly must have known what they were doing, being in no hurry to make peace with the Palestinians. As representatives of Israeli society, these governments understood that peace would involve serious damage to national interests.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22657.htm
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Cindy's Nightmare
By Cindy Sheehan
To those of you who don't support me, sorry to tell you, I am not, or never will give up. If I survived burying my oldest son for lies, I can survive any crap you or the Robber Class throws at me. The system seriously underestimates the love and commitment of a mother wronged. There are two illegal occupations raging, still, and more than enough work to do to wrest our country out of the hands of militarists/corporatists.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22656.htm
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U.S. Economy: The Cancer is Still There
By Glen Ford
Saving the finance capital oligarchy has emerged as President Obama's central mission - the guiding focus of his young administration. Obama has found new and myriad ways to go where no American president has ever gone before, in funneling somewhere around $13 trillion of national treasure to the parasitical class that goes by the shorthand, Wall Street.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22658.htm
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Norway's Success in Socialism has me Turning Red with Envy
By Sarah Gilbert
The country has a cushy 11% budget surplus, zero national debt, and an economy that grew 3% last year while Uncle Sam was dancing a jig into a 12.9% deficit, $11 trillion in debt, and the Recession we now all know and love.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22652.htm
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16 militants killed in operation in NW Pakistan:
As many as 16 suspected militants were killed in the operation in northwestern Pakistan during last 24 hours, the army said on Tuesday. One officer and three soldiers lost their lives and 16 soldiers were injured in the operation, according to the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR).
http://snipurl.com/id7ys
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Civilians killed fleeing Swat fight:
At least 12 civilians have been killed in an attack by Pakistani jet fighters in the Upper Dir region near Swat, officials and witnesses said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8057053.stm
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Civilians fleeing Swat come under attack:
Eyewitnesses, who escaped the attack or were able to reach Wari town of Dir Upper in injured condition, said they were targeted by gunship helicopters.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=22211
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Swat valley could be worst refugee crisis since Rwanda, UN warns:
Almost 1.5 million people have registered for assistance since fighting erupted three weeks ago, the UNHCR said, bringing the total number of war displaced in North West Frontier province to more than 2 million
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/18/swat-valley-pakistan-refugee-crisis
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Is he really PM of Pakistan?
I am against drone attacks, says PM Gilani:
Terming drone attacks as a serious blow to Pakistan's sovergnity, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Tuesday made it clear that US must review its policy.
http://paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=215029
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Demonizing Pakistan:
CIA: US does not know location of all Pakistan's nuclear weapons:
Leon Panetta, the CIA director, has said that the US does not know the location of all of Pakistan's nuclear weapons but is confident they are 'pretty secure'.
http://snipurl.com/id84e
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Civilians among 10 killed in Afghan violence:
Militants killed three construction workers in an attack early yesterday in southwestern Afghanistan, authorities said, as Afghan and US troops said they killed seven insurgents in a Taliban stronghold.
http://snipurl.com/id862
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Killing of Afghan civilians covered-up by Australian military:
Information has surfaced this month that the Australian military has covered up the role of Special Air Service personnel in the killing and wounding of civilians in Afghanistan.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/may2009/sasa-m19.shtml
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Afghan president meets survivors of US strikes:
President Hamid Karzai travelled to remote southwestern Afghanistan Tuesday to meet survivors of deadly air strikes, and reiterated his demand for US forces to "stop bombing" civilians.
http://snipurl.com/id893
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Washington making way for next Afghan leader?:
A former US official has reportedly been groomed to assume the second most powerful post in Afghanistan -- a move that will tighten Washington's grip on Kabul.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=95225§ionid=351020403
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Senate takes stand against Afghanistan war:
The Illinois Senate has jumped into the deep water of foreign policy by passing a resolution that criticizes President Barack Obama's plan to step up military efforts in Afghanistan.
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2009/may/12/news/chi-ap-il-xgr-illinois-afgh
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Roadside bomb kills two Iraqi civilians:
Two Iraqi civilians were killed and five others were wounded by a roadside bomb north of Baghdad on Tuesday, police said.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20090519/twl-roadside-bomb-kills-two-iraqi-civili-3cd7efd.html
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U.S. troops kill civilian in central Mosul:
"U.S. forces shot and killed a civilian on Monday (May 18) in al-Dawasa region in central Mosul," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=113356
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Demonizing Iran :
Pentagon says Iranian weapons still coming to Iraq:
The Pentagon says U.S. soldiers are still finding large numbers of Iranian-made weapons in Iraq, despite's Iran's denials.
http://snipurl.com/id8gk
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US training 'terrorists' in Iraq, Iran says:
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused Washington on Tuesday of training "terrorists" in the Kurdish region of neighboring Iraq.
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2009/may/20/yehey/world/20090520wor4.html
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US denies Iran accusation on Iraqi Kurds:
Morrell said the accusation was "terribly ironic given the fact that the Iranians continue to provide financing and weaponry to undermine our efforts to stabilize the governments in Iraq and Afghanistan."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090519/pl_afp/iranusiraqkurdsmilitary
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Iran to supply Pakistan with free electricity
Iran plans to supply Pakistan with 100 megawatt electricity free of charge, says the Iranian Ambassador to Islamabad Mashaallah Shakeri.
http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=95544§ionid=351020103
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US calls for collective action against Iran
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton backtracks on imposition of more US unilateral sanctions against Iran in favor of multilateral penalties.
http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=95495§ionid=351020104
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Israel to US: We reserve 'right' to bomb Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told the Obama administration that Tel Aviv "reserves itself operational freedom" on Iran, according to an aide.
http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=95524§ionid=351020202
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Saudi imam trial sought over sectarian remarks
Up to 600 Shia clerics in eastern Saudi Arabia have called for the prosecution of Masjid al-Haram Imam Sheikh Adil Al-Kalbani for inciting hatred.
http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=95498§ionid=351020205
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Pope's shoes in mosque cause controversy
As controversy surrounds the Pope's shoes in a mosque in Amman, a Vatican spokesman insists that it would be "absolutely wrong to make a problem" out of the issue.
http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=94240§ionid=351020206
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Netanyahu: US to present new plan:
The prime minister termed the plan "interesting," and said that it would involve not just the Palestinians and Israelis, but also a number of moderate Arab states.
http://snipurl.com/id8l6
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Abbas unveils Palestinian cabinet:
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has unveiled a new government that excludes Hamas but comprises half of the cabinet from his Fatah faction.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/05/2009519133817748184.html
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Lieberman named to U.S.-Israeli gov't post: --
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman will be in charge of the country's strategic dialogue with the United States, the Cabinet said Sunday.
http://snipurl.com/id8nh
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Sri Lankan army slaughters LTTE leaders:
The 26-year conflict was not, however, a "war on terror" but a communal war to establish the political supremacy of Sinhala ruling elite and to divide the working class
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/may2009/slwa-m19.shtml
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Ethopian troops 'return to Somalia':
Ethiopian troops have reportedly crossed the border into Somalia as fighting there intensifies between government forces and Islamist fighters, witnesses said.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/05/2009519132138316983.html
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I did not say Cheney killed Benazir: Seymour Hersh:
American journalist Seymour Hersh on Monday denied news reports that quoted him as saying a 'special death squad' working under former US vice president Dick Cheney had killed Benazir Bhutto.
http://snipurl.com/id8qr
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Judge drops suit over Iraq war's constitutionality:
Two mothers of soldiers who served in Iraq have failed in their attempt to sue the federal government over the constitutionality of the war.
http://snipurl.com/id8sz
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Democrats won't fund Guantanamo closing:
President Barack Obama's allies in the Senate will not provide funds to close the Guantanamo Bay prison until the administration comes up with a satisfactory plan for transferring the detainees there, a top Democrat said Tuesday.
http://www.adn.com/uspolitics/story/800758.html
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Government Has Pledged $12.8 Trillion on Bailouts -
Every Household on the Hook for $109,887
http://snipurl.com/id8vk
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Housing construction, permits hit record lows:
The Commerce Department said construction of new homes and apartments fell 12.8 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 458,000 units -- the lowest pace on records going back a half-century.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Housing-construction-drops-apf-15288681.html?.v=6
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Present Economy worse than Depression: Video:
Interview with Nassim Nicholas Taleb, famous economist and author of "The Black Swan" and Dr. Mandelbrot, professor of Mathematics. Both say that the present economy more serious than the Great Depression, and the economy during the American Revolution.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3zZ6qNWeGw
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Brazil and China eye plan to axe dollar:
Brazil and China will work towards using their own currencies in trade transactions rather than the US dollar, according to Brazil's central bank and aides to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil's president.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/996b1af8-43ce-11de-a9be-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1
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