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Question for Barack Obama: Why is Afghanistan the 'Right War'? |
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Written by Robin Blackburn
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Friday, 07 March 2008 |
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Barack Obama evidently needs to sharpen up his act. Probably most urgent is his need to develop a more radical economic program. But he should also reconsider his posture on the US mission in Afghanistan as fighting the right war while Iraq has been the wrong war. Counterpunch
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PA Suspends Peace Talks with Israel over Gaza Violence |
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Written by Haaretz
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Sunday, 02 March 2008 |
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The Palestinian Authority leadership in the West Bank on Saturday announced it was halting peace talks with Israel over Israel Defense Forces raids in the Gaza Strip, in which two IDF soldiers and at least 61 Palestinians were killed over the course of the day. Haaretz
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Soaring Food Prices Putting U.S. Emergency Aid in Peril |
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Written by Anthony Faiola
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Sunday, 02 March 2008 |
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The U.S. government's humanitarian relief agency will significantly scale back emergency food aid to some of the world's poorest countries this year because of soaring global food prices, and the U.S. Agency for International Development is drafting plans to reduce the number of recipient nations, the amount of food provided to them, or both, officials at the agency said. Washington Post (If the link does not work, click below)
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The Real Story Behind Kosovo's Independence |
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Written by Jeremy Scahill
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Sunday, 24 February 2008 |
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"We have in Serbia a situation in which the U.S. has forced an action --the proclamation of independence by the Kosovo Albanians -- that is in clear violation of the most fundamental principles of international law after World War II," argues Robert Hayden, Director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. "Borders cannot be changed by force and without consent -- that principle was actually the main stated reason for the 1991 U.S. attack on Iraq." AlterNet
Details, updates: Balkan Insight
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Opening a Pandora's Box: Kosovo "Independence" and the Project for a "New Middle East" |
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Written by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
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Saturday, 23 February 2008 |
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Many in Kosovo’s ethic Albanian majority celebrated what they believed was a shift towards self-determination. The truth of the matter is that the Kosovar declaration of independence was a declaration of dependency, . . . Kosovo would have had greater independence as an autonomous province in an agreement of autonomy with Serbia, which had been envisaged in bilateral talks between Belgrade and Pristina. Global Research
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Written by Linn Cohen-Cole
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Saturday, 23 February 2008 |
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Who are you with?
National Black Farmers Association, boycotting Monsanto? Babies drinking
rBGH milk? Women fearing breast cancer? Suffering animals? Children
eating Bt-corn in processed food, soft drinks, and candy? Despairing
farmers?
Or Monsanto?
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More Lies From The Bush Fascists |
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Written by Paul Craig Roberts
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Friday, 22 February 2008 |
President George W. Bush and his director of National Intelligence, Mike McConnell, are telling the American people that an unaccountable executive branch is necessary for their protection. Without the Protect America Act, Bush and McConnell claim, the executive branch will not be able to spy on terrorists, and we will all be blown up. Information Clearinghouse
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The Mediterranean Union: Dividing the Middle East and North Africa |
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Written by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
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Monday, 11 February 2008 |
The Middle East and North Africa are in the process of being divided into spheres of influence between the European Union and the United States. Essentially the division of the Middle East and North Africa are between Franco-German and Anglo-American interests. . . .
These spheres of influence are really spheres of responsibility in a long campaign to restructure the Middle East and North Africa. The services agreement between Total S.A. and Chevron to jointly develop Iraqi energy reserves, NATO agreements in the Persian Gulf, and the establishment of a permanent French military base in the U.A.E. are all results of these objectives. Militant globalization and force is at work from Iraq and Lebanon to the Maghreb. Global Research
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Written by Hassan Nafaa
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Sunday, 10 February 2008 |
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The case for a single state solution for Palestine is irrefutable, writes Hassan Nafaa, professor of political science at Cairo University. Al-Ahram
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Waterboarding for God and Country |
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Written by Ray McGovern
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Sunday, 10 February 2008 |
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On Wednesday President Bush’s spokesman Tony Fratto revealed that the White House reserves the right to approve waterboarding again, “depending on the circumstances.” Information Clearinghouse
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Written by Justin Raimondo
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Saturday, 09 February 2008 |
Spies, lies, and "conspiracy theories" – what's behind the Middle East internet outage
I was skeptical, at first, of speculation over the cutting of two cables linking the Middle East with the Internet, which had it as part of some Vast Neocon Conspiracy to isolate the region prior to a US military assault. However, when two more cables – this time, in the Persian Gulf – were mysteriously cut, I began to wonder …. AntiWar.com
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Written by Douglas Johnson
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Saturday, 09 February 2008 |
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War drums are once again pounding in America; this time the target is Iran. Iran is a rogue state, they say, hell-bent on acquiring nuclear weapons, headed by a Hitler-like lunatic who calls the holocaust a fairy-tale and who vows to wipe Israel off the map. A US naval fleet has moved within close proximity of Iran and economic sanctions have been levied. Information Clearinghouse
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U.S. Heading to War in Iran, Says Former Inspector |
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Written by Marilyn H. Karfeld
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Saturday, 09 February 2008 |
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The former chief United Nations weapons inspector and a retired Middle East diplomat recently warned that America was heading straight toward imminent war with Iran. Cleveland Jewish News ; article forwarded by Information Clearinghouse
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Middle East Internet Blackouts Spur Geopolitical Suspicions |
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Written by Paul Joseph Watson
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Sunday, 03 February 2008 |
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Unprecedented mass Internet outages throughout the Middle East and Asia after no less than four undersea Internet cables were cut without explanation are spurring suspicions that a major event of geopolitical proportions may be just around the corner. Global Research
Related story, indicating that the damage was apparently not done by ships: Khaleej Times Online
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U.S. Antiwar Movement Falters |
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Written by Andrew Pollack
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Sunday, 03 February 2008 |
Over the weekend of Dec. 8 and 9, the Steering Committee of United For Peace and Justice (UFPJ) met in New York City. The committee rejected three separate but overlapping appeals to co-sponsor a national mass demonstration on the fifth anniversary.
Instead, they considered a variety of proposals for local actions, all of them clearly oriented toward lobbying, influencing, or electing Democrats during the 2008 election year. -- Socialist Action
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AnotherWorld is Necessary |
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Written by Serene Assir
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Sunday, 03 February 2008 |
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03/02/08 "The Electronic Intifada" -- - -Under siege since 9 June 2007, the Palestinian people of Gaza moved the world by breaking out and materially reclaiming their stolen freedom of movement, rights to travel to and from their country, and right to resist the illegal status imposed on them through occupation since 1967 and economic and near-total physical blockade since the democratic election of Hamas in the legislative election of January 2006. Information Clearinghouse
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Hillary Clinton Again Lies about Iraq |
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Written by Stephen Zunes
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Sunday, 03 February 2008 |
In Thursday night’s
Democratic presidential debate, Hillary Clinton lied again
about Iraq.
At the forum in Los Angeles,
Hillary Clinton
declared, "We bombed them for days in 1998 because
Saddam Hussein threw out inspectors."
That statement was totally
false. The bombing campaign had been planned for months and
the inspectors were not thrown out. They were ordered out by
President Bill Clinton in anticipation of the four-day
U.S.-led bombing campaign.
Information Clearinghouse
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Pre-Emptive Nuclear Strike a Key Option, Nato Told |
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Written by Ian Traynor
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Sunday, 27 January 2008 |
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The west must be ready to resort to a pre-emptive nuclear attack to try to halt the "imminent" spread of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, according to a radical manifesto for a new Nato by five of the west's most senior military officers and strategists. Guardian Unlimited
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Iran Extends Olive Branch to Israel and U.S |
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Written by unknown (Irish Sun)
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Sunday, 27 January 2008 |
Iran says its relations with Israel could change, and its ties with the U.S. would not remain severed forever. Irish Sun
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Iran Set to Retaliate Against U.S. Bases |
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Written by Columbus Dispatch
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Sunday, 27 January 2008 |
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CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Iran's top military commander said yesterday that his forces would retaliate against American military bases in the Persian Gulf if they are involved in any attack on Iran. Columbus Dispatch (OH)
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