Shia Strength: [MahdiUniteMuslims] US Buying the right to kill in Pakistan:

US Buying the right to kill in Pakistan:

US lining up billions more to reward Pak:

The Obama administration will expedite more than $500 million in military support reimbursements to Pakistan and facilitate an even greater unspecified amount in concessional aid and trade to reward Islamabad for selectively ditching the Taliban and helping the US in the conflict in Afghanistan.
http://snipurl.com/v1e0n

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US Kills 4 People In Pakistan:

"We have confirmation of four deaths, so far. The death toll could be more," an intelligence official in the area said.
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=nw20100323223209542C903985

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US Kills Another 8 People In Pakistan:

At least eight people were killed and four injured in two suspected US drone strikes in Pakistan's northwestern tribal district of North Waziristan Sunday, security officials said.
http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/614733/cs/1/

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Pakistan: Two killed in yet another target killing incident:

Two people were killed in an incident of target killing in Panjgoor town of Balochistan on Tuesday.
http://snipurl.com/v0tw6

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Quetta under attack: Another man killed, four injured in bomb blast :

After the target killing of Professor Fazal Bari in the metropolis on Monday, in another incident of violence in Quetta, one person was killed and four others injured in a remote controlled bomb blast occurred at Golimar Chowk near Barory Road of Quetta on Monday.
http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=99119&Itemid=38

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Why Democracy Is "The Biggest Scam in the World"

An Interview With Arundhati Roy - Video - Audio & Transcript

We speak with acclaimed Indian writer and activist Arundhati Roy on President Obama, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, India and Kashmir and much more. Roy also talks about her journey deep into the forests of central India to report on the Maoist insurgency.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25052.htm

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Carl Boggs, The Crime of Empire.
Rogue Superpower and World Domination

By Ludwig Watzal

The U. S. power elites believe in national exceptionalism, they view the country as a benevolent or benign hegemon working for democracy, human rights, and peace. The elite - politicians, media, academia, and think tanks - presents U. S. policy as pragmatic, non-ideological, furthering liberal democracy, freedom, equality, and citizen partizipation.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25055.htm

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Militarizing Latin America

By Noam Chomsky

The United States was founded as an "infant empire," in George Washington's words. The conquest of the national territory was a grand imperial venture.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25054.htm

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Congress Speaks in 'One Voice' in Support of Israel: Lawmaker

By AFP

"The long friendship between the United States and Israel is founded on common values: democracy, pluralism and freedom and common hopes for peace and security for our children," said Pelosi, the top lawmaker in the House of Representatives.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25057.htm

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Israel Gives The Finger To The USA

By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey

It is a case of the dog biting the hand that feeds it. After years of protection by Big Brother USA, covering up for its having nuclear warheads when Iran cannot even have a nuclear program, looking the other way when shocking war crimes and massacres of civilians are committed, when pregnant Palestinian mothers are left to die in the streets, Israel sticks up the middle finger in a classic display of pig-headed arrogance by Netanyahu at AIPAC.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25061.htm

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Israel & Aid

By Ralph Nader

Israel has become an economic, technological and military juggernaut. Its GDP is larger than Egypt's even though Israel's population is less than one tenth that of the Arab world's most populous nation. The second largest number of listings on America's NASDAQ Exchange after U.S. companies are from Israel, exceeding listings of Japan, Korea, China and India combined.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25062.htm

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Israeli MP: 'British are dogs, who are they to judge?':

Members of Knesset were outraged with Britain's accusations against Israel over the assassination of a Hamas official in Dubai and its threats to expel an Israeli diplomat from London over the stolen passports affair. MK Arieh Eldad said on Tuesday that the British were behaving hypocritically and compared them to dogs.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3866929,00.html

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Who is the British Dog? By Gilad Atzmon:

For years, the Labour government was maintained financially by Zionist fundraisers led by Lord Levy. In return the Labour Government launched an illegal Israeli war (Iraq). It supported Israeli barbarism all the way through, including Tony Blair's shameful support of Israeli crimes in Lebanon (2006).
http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/who-is-the-british-dog-by-gilad-atzmon.html

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Assassinating Hamas won't work:

Israel's policy of assassinating Palestinian leaders is misguided - it should be talking to them instead
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/mar/22/hamas-assassination-israel-palestine

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Anti-Semitism - What is it?

By Jeff Gates

Is anti-Semitism a geopolitical strategy? If so, for what purpose? Character assassination?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25056.htm

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Netanyahu to AIPAC: Stop Iran or Israel Will :

Benjamin Netanyahu came to Washington Monda, warning the world to stop Iran - or Israel will - and respectfully but directly challenging the Obama administration on Jerusalem and the peace process.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MjFkZTMyNGM3OGNjOTk3MTBhYzJlYzQ4NzIyZTdjMTc=

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Sen. Lindsey Graham: Any Attack on Iran Must Be Full-Scale:

"The Congress has your back." (What other lobby would he say that to?) He declared that Israel is "our best friend in the world." (Does that tick off Canadians?) But Graham went especially far when he endorsed the idea of a military strike against Iran.
http://snipurl.com/v0txt

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Iran sanctions may be secured with China abstention:

China may ultimately be persuaded to abstain in a U.N. Security Council vote on further Iran sanctions, allowing a new resolution to be passed, a leading sanctions expert said on Tuesday.
http://snipurl.com/v0ty2

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Israel to triple illegal West Bank settlements:

The leader of Israeli settlers' council has said the regime plans to triple Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank despite international pressures to halt settlement expansions on Palestinian lands.
http://presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=121492§ionid=351020202

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Dershowitz Peddling More Middle East Myths:

By Matthew Duss

Alan Dershowitz's op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal is a useful reminder that his tendency toward dishonesty isn't limited to the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He's dishonest about Iran, too:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25068.htm

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Truth Has Fallen and Has Taken Liberty With It

By Paul Craig Roberts

There was a time when the pen was mightier than the sword. That was a time when people believed in truth and regarded truth as an independent power and not as an auxiliary for government, class, race, ideological, personal, or financial interest.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25066.htm

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Social Inequality in America: Widening Income Disparities.

By Vi Ransel

Reforms, regulatory agencies and elections themselves are America's Circus Maximus, mere flourishes on the veneer of democracy painted over the naked concentration of power accrued to the few who hold the reins of the corporate mechanism, the most stunningly efficient means ever invented for accumulating and concentrating wealth, which is then translated into political power.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25067.htm

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Whose Streets?
(Our Streets between 1pm and 4pm With a Permit)

By Cindy Sheehan

It seems like we march past empty buildings and shake our fists at them and promise that if those empty buildings don't change their ways, we will be back next year to do the same thing.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25064.htm

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The US is at a Precipice

By Tim Gatto

This recent fiasco concerning health insurance really made me understand that most Americans have no idea what is really important. The minuscule amount of money compared to the defense budget and the bail-outs is not the important issue here. The selling out of our nation by Congress and the Executive Branch is the real problem.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25065.htm

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Are Americans Too Broken by Corporate Power to Resist?

By Joan Brunwasser

We need to take a look at what forces in American society are preventing people from being able to resist tyranny and dehumanization.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25069.htm

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21 Taliban militants killed in Pakistan:

The clashes in the Orakzai tribal district came as military and paramilitary troops, backed by tanks and artillery, are carrying out an offensive to destroy alledged Taliban and Al Qaeda hideouts and training camps.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/21-Taliban-militants-killed-in-Pakistan/H1-Article1-522802.aspx

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Iraqi premier won't recognize election results without a recount:

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's coalition has said it will not recognize election results without a recount and warned of unrest, the independent daily al-Mashreq reported on Tuesday
http://snipurl.com/v0tvq

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Moqtada al-Sadr holds balance of power:

The Sadrist Movement, the political arm of al-Mahdi Army, is believed to have won between 30 and 40 seats in the 325-member Parliament in this month's elections - giving it the balance of power while the two main contenders for prime minister jockey for position.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article7071748.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797093

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Six soldiers among 10 killed in Iraq attacks:

A series of attacks across Iraq killed at least 10 people on Wednesday, including six soldiers and one policeman, security officials said.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20100324/twl-six-soldiers-among-10-killed-in-iraq-3cd7efd.html

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Haditha massacre :

A legal snafu could clear the way to freedom for the Marine sergeant perhaps most responsible for the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians in the infamous Haditha massacre of 2005.
http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/haditha-killings-marine-trial/story?id=10171003

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March 2010 Iraq War Protests: Video:

There was a protest or demonstration in over 150 cities the week of March 20th. This video shows video and photos of maybe twenty events across the country combining interviews, speeches, and demonstration observations.
http://pjep.org/resources/detail.php?rid=2396

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Two NATO occupation force soldiers, two de-miners killed in Afghan blasts:

Two NATO soldiers were killed Wednesday in a blast triggered by a homemade bomb in southern Afghanistan, where two Afghan mine clearers also died in a similar attack, officials said.
http://snipurl.com/v1e1j

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Taliban shoots down helicopter in northern Afghanistan:

A civilian helicopter contracted by the US military made a 'hard landing' Wednesday in northern Afghanistan after being hit by Taliban militants but there were no casualties, officials said.
http://snipurl.com/v1e1t

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Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran:

Afghan-Iranian mountain trails reveal hidden weapons smuggling route:

It's no overstatement to say that many Afghans in Herat are scared of their powerful neighbor to the West.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/03/23/iran.afghanistan.weapons.taliban/index.html

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World will do "whatever it takes" to stop Iran nuke: Blair:

"Iran must not be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons capability. Iran must know that we will do whatever it takes to stop them getting it," Blair told the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC, adding it was a matter of global security.
http://snipurl.com/v1e2j

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Russia says nuclear Iran not alarming, urges talks:

Russia's foreign minister has said Iran's nuclear program poses no imminent threat but urged Tehran to engage the international community.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=121209§ionid=351020104

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Israeli settlements buried two-state solution -expert: .

He called for dropping the two-state paradigm for discussion of a joint "bi-national regime."
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE62M16A.htm

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Britain Expels Israel Diplomat Over Fake Passports:

The British foreign secretary, said there were "compelling reasons" suggesting that Israel was behind the misuse of the British passports and called Israel's actions "intolerable."
http://snipurl.com/v1e3s

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British warning: Watch your passports ;

'We recommend that you only hand your passport over to third parties including Israeli officials when absolutely necessary; Foreign Office says
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3867174,00.html

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Israel to replace 'Mossad officer' expelled by UK:

The Israeli diplomat who is to be expelled from Britain over the alleged forgery of British passports connected to the killing of a top Hamas militant, is a Mossad officer who will be replaced by the "Jewish state", Israeli media reports said on Wednesday.
http://snipurl.com/v1e4w

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U.S. aviation security pick favors Israeli model:

President Barack Obama's nominee to oversee security at U.S. airports said on Tuesday he wants to shift screening closer to the Israeli model to include more behavior detection in a bid to thwart terrorism plots.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100323/pl_nm/us_usa_security_aviation_1

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Angola: Seven killed in brutal land evictions:

Seven people including four children between four and 12-years-old have been killed in the latest wave of brutal and forced evictions in Angola. The evictions took place earlier this month when riot police swept through a provincial capital, Lubango.
http://snipurl.com/v1e5e

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Mexico's drug wars rage out of control:

With more than 2,000 people killed since the new year, 2010 is shaping up to overtake the record 6,500 drug-related murders last year, which exceeded the toll of more than 5,000 in 2008.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/23/mexico-drug-wars-cartels

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Right-winger Ann Coulter silenced by angry protesters at University of Ottawa: Video:

Hundreds of screaming students succeeded in what few thought possible Tuesday night - they silenced incendiary right-winger Ann Coulter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgDYFfDg5Kc

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Exclusive: Int'l Missile Program Faces $1 Bln Cost Overrun:

The $19 billion U.S.-European MEADS missile development program is facing about $1 billion in added costs, according to officials briefed on the program, but the overrun should not breach congressional thresholds that would trigger a live-or-die review.
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_212291572.shtml

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Fourteen US states sue to block health reform:

In a sign of political battles to come, 14 US states filed lawsuits Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of health care reform just moments after President Barack Obama signed it into law.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/100323/usa/us_politics_health_court

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IRS Needs $10 Billion to Be Nation's Health Enforcer:

The mandates require that all Americans carry a minimum level of health insurance or pay a separate tax for every month they are without such coverage. All employers with 50 employers or more will also be required to provide their employees with that same minimum level of coverage.
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/63181

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Homeowners Facing Foreclosure Take Own Lives:

The foreclosure crisis in Philadelphia is now becoming a matter of life and death. Eyewitness News has learned that in the past month, two homeowners took their own lives before sheriff's deputies arrived to tell them that they were being evicted.
http://cbs3.com/local/Foreclosure.Suicide.Philadelphia.2.1584571.html

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