U.S. Stirs a Hornet's Nest in Pakistan
By ERIC MARGOLIS
If this continues, at some point patriotic Pakistani soldiers may rebel and shoot the corrupt generals and politicians on Washington's payroll. Equally ominous, a poor people's uprising spreading across Pakistan -- also mislabelled "Taliban" -- threatens a radical national rebellion reminiscent of India's Naxalite rebels.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22633.htm
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US 'supports borderline terrorists against Iran'
As the White House continues to claim that it seeks "change", the Leader of the Islamic Revolution asserts that the US harbors terrorists on Iran's western borders. Ayatollah Khamenei's remarks on terrorist plots along the western borders comes after a revelation by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh in 2008 that US congressional leaders had secretly agreed to a $400-million funding request by then president George W. Bush for a major escalation in covert operations against the Iranian government.
http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=95222§ionid=351020101
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U.S. Attack Killed 140 Villagers - Afghan Probe
By Hamid Shalizi and Peter Graff
A copy of the government's list of the names, ages and father's names of each of the 140 dead was obtained by Reuters earlier this week. It shows that 93 of those killed were children -- the youngest eight days old -- and only 22 were adult males.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22635.htm
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Obama Takes Over Where Bush Left Off
By Mike Whitney
Barack Obama is aggressively stepping up the war in Afghanistan. He's intensified the cross-border bombing of Pakistan and he is doubling the number of U.S. troops to 68,000 by 2010. He's also a strong proponent of pilotless drones even though hundreds of civilians have been killed in bombing raid blunders.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22637.htm
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Changing Obama's Mindset
By Howard Zinn
Where progress has been made, wherever any kind of injustice has been overturned, it's been because people acted as citizens, and not as politicians. They didn't just moan. They worked, they acted, they organized, they rioted if necessary to bring their situation to the attention of people in power. And that's what we have to do today.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22639.htm
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Rumsfeld's Renegade Unit Blamed for Afghan Deaths
By Jerome Starkey in Kabul
Special Forces group implicated in three incidents that claimed the lives of hundreds of innocent civilians / MarSOC was set up by former defence secretary despite opposition from within the Marine Corps.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22634.htm
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In Case You Missed It
Turkey Shoot At Abu Ghraib
Tales of Murder and Torture
Video
I wanted to find out what had turned ordinary American soldiers into the apparent monsters revealed in the photographs.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12258.htm
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Aipac's Hidden Persuaders
By Richard Silverstein
The Israel lobby is aiming to soften up US public opinion for an attack on Iran. Americans should resist its propaganda.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22636.htm
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"We Are Escalating War - We Are Less Safe"
5 Minute Video By Ron Paul
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http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22638.htm
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Pakistan: Offensive kills 1,000 alleged militants:
Security forces were facing off with militants in "intense fire engagements" on the outskirts of Swat's main town, Mingora, where many of the estimated 4,000 Taliban fighters in the valley are believed to be holed up, the statement said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30791770/
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US attack kills 29 in Pakistan:
Twenty-nine people were killed when a US drone fired two missiles at a residential compound in the Mirali tehsil of North Waziristan tribal region.
http://snipurl.com/i80x7
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40 "militants" killed in US drone attacks:
Soon after the attack, other militants staying at the building arrived and started rescue work. "They were recovering bodies of the slain militants when the drone fired two more missiles, almost 12 minutes after the first attack. It was terrible as almost all the Taliban involved in rescue work were targeted," stated a local militant commander based in Mirali.
http://thenews.jang.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=22177
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11 persons killed in two blasts in Peshawar:
At least 11 people, including two women and two children, were killed and another 31 injured when a powerful car bomb ripped through a congested locality in Peshawar
http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/detailed_news.asp?date1=5/17/2009#4
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70 killed as Sri Lanka rebels 'concede defeat':
The rebel declaration on Sunday came shortly after the army said that at least 70 Tamil Tigers had been killed as they tried to flee the conflict zone.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/05/200951711256325722.html
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Twenty, including 12 policemen, killed in Afghan violence:
A dozen policemen and an army soldier were killed in separate Taliban attacks in Afghanistan on Sunday, while Afghan and international forces killed seven militants in operations, officials said.
http://snipurl.com/i813i
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U.S. military probes Blackwater Kabul killing:
The U.S. military is investigating a shooting incident in which four contractors from the re-named firm formerly called Blackwater are accused of killing an Afghan man after a traffic accident, a spokesman said on Sunday.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/17/AR2009051700107.html
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Villagers in Afghanistan Describe Chaos of U.S. Strikes:
Villagers, including two girls recovering from burn wounds, described devastation that officials and human rights workers are calling the worst episode of civilian casualties in eight years of war in Afghanistan.
http://snipurl.com/i814o
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Record bombs dropped in Afghanistan in April:
In the past month, warplanes released 438 bombs, the most ever. April also marked the fourth consecutive month that the number of bombs dropped rose, after a decline starting last July.
http://snipurl.com/i815x
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Four Iraqis killed in Mosul car bomb: -
Four people, including one policeman, were killed by a car bomb in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Sunday, police said.
http://snipurl.com/i816k
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Two policemen killed in Iraq attacks:
Two Iraqi policemen were killed and three others were wounded on Sunday in two separate attacks, including a car bombing, in the volatile northern city of Mosul, police said.
http://snipurl.com/i8174
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U.S. occupation force soldier killed in combat in Iraq:
A U.S. occupation force soldier was killed in a combat action in southern Iraq on Saturday, the U.S. military said.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/17/content_11386941.htm
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Critics Call Obama's Tribunals "Bush Lite":
In an apparent reversal, President Barack Obama is reviving the Bush administration's much-criticized military tribunals for Guantanamo Bay detainees, shocking those who expected the president to end them completely.
http://snipurl.com/i818h
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Panetta to CIA employees: We told Pelosi the truth:
CIA Director Leon Panetta just sent a stern message to his employees defending the agency against Speaker Nancy Pelosi's criticisms. His message: We didn't mislead Congress; stay focused on your job.
http://snipurl.com/i819s
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Lifting the Hood: Must Watch Video -
As the 'hooded man' in the infamous Abu Ghraib pictures, Haj Ali became an icon of everything that was wrong with the US occupation. He tells his story and we hear from other prisoners
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ0x5ZLbeqQ&feature=fvsr
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Amira Hass / Israel bans books, music and clothes from entering Gaza:
Israel allows only food, medicine and detergent into the Gaza Strip. Thousands of items, including vital products for everyday activity, are forbidden.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1086045.html
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Arabs see Israel - not Iran - as nuclear threat:
Arab League chief says Israel's nuclear bombs arsenal poses 'real danger' in troubled Middle East.
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=32091
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Obama says Iran war not off the table:
President Barack Obama says the US has not taken military action against Iran over its nuclear program off the table ahead of the Israeli premier's trip to Washington.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=95022§ionid=351020101
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ElBaradei: Israel strike on Iran would be 'insane':
"It would be completely insane to attack Iran," ElBaradei told Germany's Der Spiegel magazine. "That would turn the region into one big fireball, and the Iranians would immediately start building the bomb - and they could count on the support of the entire Islamic world."
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1085872.html
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Congressional leaders inadvertently expose Israeli lobbyists behind letter to Obama:
The email to congressmembers seeking their support said they hoped they'd sign onto "the attached letter to President Obama regarding the Middle East peace process," which argued that the US "must be both a trusted mediator and a devoted friend to Israel" and added, "Israel will be taking the greatest risks in any peace agreement."
http://snipurl.com/i81ca
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The U.S. to Raise Military Aid to Israel:
The budget proposed to Congress for 2010 includes $2.775 billion in aid to Israel, compared to $2.5 billon budgeted for 2009. This is more than a 10% increase in total U.S. aid to Israel.
http://www.alternativenews.org/english/1915-the-us-to-raise-military-aid-to-israel.html
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US Nuclear Weapons Spending Topped $52 Billion Last Year:
According to a new report by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, spending on US nuclear weapons infrastructure and related programs surpassed $52 billion in 2008.
http://snipurl.com/i81e8
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Fifty-Two Violent Deaths a Day, and No Respite in Sight:
On the day a report was released ranking Venezuela as one of the most violent countries in the world, a local anti-drugs prosecutor was murdered, a mob lynched a suspected criminal in the capital, and gunmen fired 20 shots, killing another suspect.
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42484
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Shootings of Unionists Continue Unabated:
Two shots to the head, fired from a van, put a sudden end to the life of Argenis Vásquez, the organising secretary of the Toyota assembly plant workers' union. - The day before, on May 4, 29-year-old Keller Maneiro, a delegate of the Union of Construction and Lumber Workers in Ciudad Guayana, 500 kilometres southeast of Caracas, was murdered in the parking lot of a supermarket.
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46867
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Thousands march to demand Guatemalan leader resign:
Thousands of Guatemalans gathered for a march to the National Palace on Sunday to demand the president resign over accusations that he ordered a lawyer killed, a scandal threatening the rule of the country's first leftist leader more than 50 years.
http://snipurl.com/i81gp
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