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Afghanistan
U.S. Aiding Afghan Drug Trade Russia has accused the United
States of "conniving" with Afghan drug producers by not destroying
opium crops as U.S. troops advance in Helmand Province, one of the
major opium growing regions.
Gen. McChrystal: We've Shot An Amazing Number Of People Who Were
Not Threats
U.S. official says intel suggests Iran plans to ship arms to Taliban
Afghan Leader
Suggests He Could Be Compelled To Join The Taliban... Lashes Out
Hours After Make-Up Call With Secretary Clinton
It's the foreigners' fault! 'Unhinged' Karzai He
accused unidentified foreign embassies of trying to bribe members of
the Karzai-appointed Independent Election
Commission
Karzai's brother said to be paid by CIA - The New York
Times ...
Reports link Karzai's brother to heroin trade - The New
York Times Karzai was selected by prominent
Afghan political figures to serve a six month term as
Chairman of the
Transitional Administration. He was then chosen for a two years
term as the Interim President during the 2002
Loya
Jirga in
Kabul,
Afghanistan. After the
2004 presidential election, Karzai won and became President of
the
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. He then won the
2009 presidential election after his opponent withdrew from the
run-off race.[2]
U.S. Troops Slaughtered Afghan Women, Then Dug Bullets Out Of Their
Bodies To Cover It Up
PROTESTS
APPEAR TO HAVE TOPPLED KYRGYZ GOVERNMENT
POLICE
FIRE ON PROTESTERS.. AT LEAST 40 DEAD.. KYRGYZ IS KEY U.S. ALLY..
CONTROL OF COUNTRY IN QUESTION..
REPORT:
PRESIDENT FLEES BISHKE
Upheaval in Kyrgyzstan Could Imperil Key U.S. Base Protests that
appear to have overthrown the government raise questions about an
American air base that supports the war in Afghanistan.
1,300 U.S. troops stranded at airfield in Kyrgyzstan, military says
Kyrgyzstan pledges to honour security deals, US says
Iraq
Friday: 82 Iraqis Killed, 102 Wounded...Sunday:
55 Iraqis Killed, 320 Wounded...Tuesday:
59 Iraqis Killed, 196 Wounded
Sadr urges unity against United States Anti-US cleric Moqtada
al-Sadr, likely to be a key player in forming a new Iraqi government
following elections last month, urged Sunni and Shiite Muslims on
Friday to unite to oust American troops.
Gunmen execute 25 in Baghdad Assassins target members of Sunni
group that defied insurgency; women, children slain
Heres Why?
Wikileaks video showing cover-up of murder of civilians and
journalists through US forces in Iraq WikiLeaks has released a
classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of
over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including
two Reuters news staff. Reuters has been trying to obtain the video
through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the
time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter
gun-site, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters
employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue
were also seriously wounded. For further information please visit
the special project website
www.collateralmurder.com.
Reuters families demand a trial
Ret. Intel officer: US broke Rules
of Engagement in leaked vid
Transparency Web Site Claims It's Being Spied On...In an e-mail
to AOL News, Assange said he couldn't sure it was the CIA, and that
it may have been agents from other security services, such as the
Defense Security Service. But he insisted he was followed by two
people traveling under State Department "cover' and said that he
expected to have "more physical evidence soon."
Bombs strike four embassies in Baghdad, killing at least 30
Pakistan
Pakistan May Have Secretly Freed Captured Taliban Leaders But
U.S. officials now believe that even as Pakistan's security forces
worked with their American counterparts to detain Mullah Abdul Ghani
Baradar and other insurgents, the country's Inter-Services
Intelligence directorate, or ISI, quietly freed at least two senior
Afghan Taliban figures it had captured on its own
Pakistan refuses to hand over captured Taliban leaders to
Afghanistan Islamabad cites concerns detainees may be freed or
transferred to US custody, though broader geopolitics may also be at
play
U.S. Consulate in Pakistan Attacked by Militants
The Americas
Why Brazil's Cotton Farmers Get Subsidies from the U.S. What
could be more outrageous than the hefty subsidies the U.S.
government lavishes on rich American cotton farmers? How about the
U.S. lavishing those same subsidies on Brazilian farmers?
U.S. covering up reality in Honduras State Department campaign
denies the systemic repression that continues nine months after
coup.
“We Made a Devil’s Bargain”: Fmr. President Clinton Apologizes for
Trade Policies that Destroyed Haitian Rice Farming President
Bill Clinton, now the UN Special Envoy to Haiti, publicly apologized
last month for forcing Haiti to drop tariffs on imported, subsidized
US rice during his time in office. The policy wiped out Haitian rice
farming and seriously damaged Haiti’s ability to be self-sufficient.
On Wednesday, journalist Kim Ives of Haiti Liberté questioned
Clinton about his change of heart and his stance on the return of
ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Lawsuit: Chiquita Brands ‘funded
death squads’ in Colombia
'Lawyer' For U.S. Missionary Kidnappers Faces Extradition A man
who acted as a lawyer for U.S. missionaries accused of kidnapping 33
Haitian children after the devastating earthquake will face a
hearing this month on a U.S. extradition request, an official said
Monday.It had been unclear whether Jorge Puello would be extradited
to the U.S., where he is wanted on smuggling charges, or El
Salvador, where authorities allege he led a prostitution ring.
Suspected drug
hitmen killed a carload of children and teenagers in northern Mexico
in the latest of a rash of attacks on minors that have angered the
public as drug gang violence spins out of control. |
Middle East
Military covered up responsibility in deadly blast, probe shows
The Van Chief Public Prosecutor's office has revealed that a land
mine explosion which killed seven soldiers last year was caused by
mines planted by the Turkish military, contrary to the earlier
widely held belief that they had been planted by outlawed Kurdistan
Workers' Party (PKK)
Yemen Refuses to Hunt Al-Awlaki for U.S. Last weekend,
authorities in Yemen said they would not participate in the
extrajudicial killing of U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who was
recently targeted by military and intelligence agencies in
Washington. "Anwar al-Awlaki has always been looked at as a preacher
rather than a terrorist
Hamas Allegedly Taxes Poor, Robs Banks To Fund Itself
Settlers' desecrate W Bank mosque
The Israeli army
confirmed that "anonymous suspects" scrawled graffiti, including a
Jewish star of David alongside the name of the Prophet Mohammed
written in Hebrew
Israel Warns Palestine Not To Declare State
Israel's shock doctrine
OECD finds Israel has biggest poverty rate of developed world.
Economists blame neo liberal reforms.
Foxman Continues to Go After Gen. Petraeus In case you thought
Friday’s bizarre statement rebuking Gen. David Petraeus was a
fluke, Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League continued his
attack on the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East and South
Asia in a Sunday blog post. Recall that all Petraeus said was that
the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict set the “strategic context”
for the U.S. and its allies in the Mideast and allowed extremists to
exploit the decades-old tension in ways deleterious to U.S. and
allied interests. But to Foxman, that’s “proven to have no
validity.”
The Scandal No Israeli Journalist Can Report There is a news
story in Israel that everyone is talking about, but which cannot be
published or broadcast here. Because of a restrictive gag order on
all Israeli newspapers and broadcasters, the details of the story
about leaked military documents are only available in the foreign
media. The draconian measure, which is due to be appealed in the
Supreme Court, has led to a chorus of complaints across the Israeli
media world
Obama agrees to keep
Israel's nukes secret - Washington
...Obama:
Israel should sign nuclear non-proliferation treaty
Officials say Iran could have nuclear weapon in 3-5 years Just
so everyone knows, they have said this every year since 1985, so
take it as is.
Petraeus: Iran nuke won't happen this year The top U.S.
commander in the Middle East says Iran's efforts to obtain a nuclear
weapon have been delayed "a bit" and that Iran won't get a nuclear
weapon this year.
CIA: Iran capable of producing nukes
Iranian scientist 'defects' to CIA
Intelligence coup' seen as missing scientist
Shahram Amiri said to be in US.
Europe
Black Widows’ linked to Moscow blast For the first time in
nearly six years, Chechnya’s Shahidka – or Black Widows – have been
linked to a terror attack inside Russia
At least 38 dead
More suicide bombings rock Russia
Massacre may be linked to Moscow blasts The two mysterious young
widows who brought terror to Moscow by targeting its famed subway
system might have been motivated by a forest massacre in which
garlic-picking villagers were slain by government forces.
CRASH KILLS
POLAND'S TOP MILITARY, CIVILIAN LEADERS
Plane Crash
Kills President… Military, Civilian Leaders Among 96 Dead… No
Survivors
DE-NUKED:
UKRAINE TO GIVE UP ALL WEAPONS-GRADE URANIUM
More Evidence Emerges That Pope Benedict Helped Shield Pedophiles
Before He Became Pope
Vatican Offers 3 Reasons Why It's Not Liable For Abuse
LETTER SHOWS POPE PAUL KNEW OF
ABUSE DECADES AGO
UN judge calls for prosecution of
Pope for protecting priests
Asia
'Significant' Damage to Barrier Reef From Grounded (Chinese coal)
Ship..Chinese
Ship Slams Great Barrier Reef, Could Cause Massive Oil Spill
Priest Accused of Rape Says He's Innocent Catholic priest
accused of abusing girls in Minnesota and now working in India tells
ABC News that he is innocent and his accusers are trying to get
money from the Catholic Church.
Priest Charged in U.S. Is Still Serving in India
China's $7.24B March trade deficit 1st in 6 years
Africa
Somali Pirates Threaten Far Reaches Of Indian Ocean
Africa may have lost £1tn in illegal flows of money, researchers say
White supremacist South Africa
leader bludgeoned to death |
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Accused man's (Pelosi threats) mom blames Fox News for behavior
Gregory Giusti's 83-year-old mother had not heard that her son had
been arrested, but she told ABC7 he has a history of mental
problems. She does not think he would be capable of carrying out the
threat; he has never owned a gun, and she blames Fox News for
getting her son worked up.
FBI Arrests Calif Man For Alleged Pelosi Threats
How Dangerous Are the Drugs in Our Water? Americans take
thousands of different kinds of drugs, and many wind up where they
shouldn't: in the water supply
McDonald's Scraps Worldwide Composting Program Because Food Won't
Decompose
Court Rules AGAINST Net Neutrality In Big Win For Comcast Over FCC
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that
the FCC lacks authority to require broadband providers to give equal
treatment to all Internet traffic flowing over their networks.
Pfizer ordered to pay up over
'AIDS-like' virus infections
what is being hailed as a major victory for workers in
the biotech and nanotech fields, a former scientist with
pharmaceutical firm Pfizer has been awarded $1.37 million for being
fired after raising the alarm over researchers being infected with a
genetically engineered "AIDS-like" virus.Becky McClain, a molecular
biologist from Deep River, Connecticut, filed a lawsuit against
Pfizer in 2007, claiming she had been wrongly terminated for
complaining about faulty safety equipment that allowed a "dangerous
lentivirus" to infect her and some of her colleagues.
Ruling Against Bush Wiretaps Also Slaps Down Obama's Executive
Overreach
Federal Judge Finds N.S.A. Wiretapping Program Illegal A judge
ruled that the government had violated a 1978 statute requiring
court approval for domestic surveillance when it intercepted phone
calls of a now-defunct charity.
Bill O'Reilly To Pay Court Costs Of Dead Marine's Father
Marine's father ordered to pay Westboro's court costs Lawyers
for the father of a Marine who died in Iraq and whose funeral was
picketed by anti-gay protesters say a court has ordered him to pay
the protesters' appeal costs.
Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens retiring
Federal court upholds border search of laptop in Texas The U.S.
District Court for the Southern District of Texas has become the
latest federal court to uphold the right of U.S. customs agents to
conduct warrantless searches
Judge Orders Mississippi County Schools To Comply With Desegregation
Order Thomas E. Perez, assistant U.S. attorney general for civil
rights, said Tuesday that the actions by the school district led
local residents to regard certain schools as "white schools" or
"black schools."
HHS Contracts With PR Firm Responsible For ‘Propaganda’ Videos
During The Bush Administration The irony? The firm chosen for
the job — Ketchum Inc. — was
hip-deep in controversy a few years ago for producing a series of
fake TV news stories that violated a federal ban on propaganda.
The company also drew fire for channeling taxpayer funds to a
conservative pundit to promote the Bush administration’s education
policies.
U.S. Refines Terror-Screening Policy The U.S. government is
refining its terror-screening policy to focus on specific terror
threats and not travelers' nationalities. The new policy replaces a
security requirement put in place after the attempted bombing of a
jetliner en route to Detroit on Christmas Day that singled out
people from 14 countries that have been home to terrorists. It also
expands the pool of foreign travelers targeted for extra screening
beyond those whose names are on a U.S. terror watch list.
The Next Wave Of Government Spying Programs To lower the odds of
similar troubles in the future, the government has launched a swarm
of spooky, out-of-the-box research projects known collectively as
the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity.
WHO 'overstated' swine flu danger Organisation has 'gambled
away' public confidence over the swine flu pandemic, says Labour MP
Paul Flynn
Mine Disaster Site Had 57 Safety Violations LAST MONTH States
that if you have insurance at the time of the bill becoming law and
change, you will be required to take a similar plan. If that is not
available, you will be required to take the gov option!
Massey Energy Mine Cited for 1,300+ Safety Violations in Years
Leading up to Deadly Explosion
Obama Limits When U.S. Would Use Nuclear Arms The new American
nuclear strategy will narrow the conditions under which the United
States would use nuclear weapons, with the exception of “outliers
like Iran and North Korea.”
Massey's Killer Coal Baron Don Blankenship: Safety Regulators "As
Silly As Global Warming"...
MINE DISASTER
PROBE TO BE SECRET
Virginia Governor Declares April 'Confederate History Month'...Virginia
Gov Leaves Out Slavery From 'Confederate History Month' Proclamation...Slavery
Not 'Significant' Enough To Include...Bob
McDonnell Apologizes For Slavery Omission In 'Confederate History
Month' Proclamation ...McDonnell
sorry for downplaying slavery; group that pushed for Confederate
History Month 'tied to white supremacists'...Sons
Of Confederate Veterans Chairman Defends Omission Of Slavery From
Confederate History ...Both
Mississippi And Georgia Have Confederate History Proclamations
Without Any Mention of Slavery
Mexican drug war losing proposition for all of us Egged
on by the United States, Mexico is waging an ill-conceived war on
drugs that has led to an explosion of violence.read
more
Obama Officials Tie U.S. Drug Habit to War In Mexico, Secretary
of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Pledges to Reduce Americans' Demand
for Illegal Narcotics
Constance McMillen, Fake Prom? Itawamba Dance Was Kept Secret From
Lesbian Teen Constance McMillen, her date and just a handful of
others, including two classmates with learning disabilities,
attended the dance in Fulton, Mississippi while most of her other
classmates from Itawamba Agricultural High School reportedly partied
at a separate prom that McMillen was not invited to. McMillen, 18,
said that her feelings were hurt, but that there was at least one
good thing about the night.
The Advocate:Two students with learning difficulties were among
the seven people at the country club event, McMillen recalls. "They
had the time of their lives," McMillen says. "That's the one good
thing that come out of this, [these kids] didn't have to worry about
people making fun of them [at their prom]."
Non-Citizen US War Vets Facing Deportation Despite Military Promises
of Citizenship
As Demolitions Begin, Community Activists See Detroit Urban Renewal
Plan as Land-Grab
Church charges Calif. minister over gay weddings A retired
Presbyterian minister in Northern California is again facing charges
she violated church law when she officiated at the weddings of gay
couples.
Amnesty: US guilty of Katrina-related abuses
Feds exploring claims of racial
vigilantism in Algiers Point in days after Hurricane Katrina
Icelandic Volcano Ash Causes Largest Flight Disruption Since 9/11 |
Police:
Teaching Kids to Mistrust Government Makes Couple ‘Unsuitable’
Parents. Texans, beware: If you teach your kids that the “government
is out to harm them,” police in Williamson County might just deem
you an “unsuitable” parent.
Three police beat student to the
ground, unprovoked
Officials: Colo. Deputy Used Stun Gun on Students
A sheriff’s deputy in Colorado has been
placed on unpaid administrative leave after he used a stun gun to
shock 30 students at a high school career fair.
Sean Hannity calls tea baggers Tim
McVeigh-wannabes
Beck admits he doesn’t give ‘a flying crap about the
political process. … We’re an entertainment company.’
With a deadpan, Beck insists that
he is not political: “I could give a flying crap about the political
process.” Making money, on the other hand, is to be taken
very seriously, and controversy is its own coinage. “We’re
an entertainment company,” Beck say
Rachel Maddow Shows How Faux Coconspired With O'Keefe & Giles To
Fabricate The Acorn "Scandal"
Economy
tax gap- Graph of
massive inequality in America over time
Anonymous Big
Bank Insider Speaks Out: 'The System Is Built To Be Gamed'
Notice that the level of inequality was
higher by 2006 than even just before the Great Depression. You can
bet that figure has risen after the ‘08 bailouts, which (necessary
as it may have been to prevent a catastrophic financial plunge)
essentially funneled money from poor and working people into the
pockets of wealthy financial institutions that participated in the
economy’s decline. Heads they win, tails we lost
Citi Was 'Negative' On Subprime Mortgages As Early As 2006
Long-Term Unemployed Hits All-Time High
Wall Street
Speculators Driving Up Price Of Oil
Fighting
Unemployment Claims On Behalf Of Corporations Now A Booming Industry
Politics
Judge dismisses scores of Guantanamo habeas cases The judge said
that because the 105 cases had been filed by Guantanamo captives
who've been released or transferred to other countries, there was no
need to decide if they'd been held illegally.
Detainee Death Sheds Light on CIA Torture Gul Rahman Died
Shackled and Naked in Near-Freezing Cell at Secret Prison
Report: CIA Deputy Director Helped Cover Up Detainee Death
White House
won't deny it approved killing American without trial
The White House won't deny
reports claiming that it authorized the killing of an American
citizen who is purportedly involved in planning al Qaeda attacks and
is said to be hiding out in Yemen.The New York Times and
the Washington Post
reported late Tuesday that Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was
added to the CIA's list of alleged terrorists the US has targeted to
kill. American forces have killed myriad suspected terror suspects
using armed drone planes in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Yemen.
Taxes likely to rise eventually to tame deficit The United
States should consider raising taxes to help bring deficits under
control and may need to consider a European-style value-added tax
White House distances itself from Volcker (VAT) tax remarks
TAX RELIEF: Nearly Half Of American Households Won't Owe ANY Taxes
This Year... 47
percent of US households evade federal income tax
Greenpeace Uncovers The 'Financial Kingpin' Of The Climate Denial
Industry Koch Industries has “become a financial kingpin of
climate science denial and clean energy opposition,” spending over
$48.5 million since 1997 to fund the climate denial machine,
according to an
extensive report today by Greenpeace.
Small-City Mayor Takes on the Pentagon -- War
Spending Should Be Spent on Americans, Not on Killing
U.S. 'Party Sub' Crashes, Costs Taxpayers $89 Million
Gates orders overhaul of Pentagon mentor program
Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday ordered an overhaul of
the Pentagon's use of retired senior officers to advise the
military, limiting the pay of "senior mentors" and requiring them to
disclose their business ties to defense contractors. The new policy
balances the military's desire to tap the wisdom of its former
leaders "with the need to hire such
Chomsky's interview with Raw Story's Sahil Kapur, on
health care reform The decades-long
critic of corporate power alleged that premiums won't stop rising as
the package is designed in no small part to funnel money into the
pockets of the health care industry. "The bill gives away a lot to
insurance companies and big pharmaceutical corporations," he said
How the U.S. cracked open the secret vaults at UBS When
executives from UBS were summoned by U.S. regulators over a tax
fraud probe, the plan was simple: admit guilt and move on
NPR actually audits the Fed
Through
FOIA requests, National Public Radio goes in detail on Fed holdings.
Paul
chastises right-wing: 'They like the empire'
FEC
commissioner helped RNC conceal role in 2004 vote suppression
Caroline Hunter, a
Bush-appointed Federal Election Commissioner who remains in office,
provided misleading statements under oath in an effort to conceal
Republican National Committee involvement in vote suppression
activities during the 2004 presidential election, a Raw Story
investigation has found.
Federal Government Seeking Maximum $16M Penalty
Against Toyota
Poll Finds Tea Party Backers Wealthier and More Educated Tea
party supporters are wealthier and more well-educated than the
general public and tend to be Republican, white, male and married,
Science
Scientists Discover First Multicellular Life That Doesn't Need
Oxygen Oxygen may not be the staple of modern complex
life that scientists once thought. Until now, the only life forms
known to live exclusively in anoxic conditions were viruses,
bacteria and Archaea. But in a new study, scientists have discovered
three new multicellular marine species that appear to have never
lived in aerobic conditions, and never metabolized oxygen |
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Conn. high court sets minimum education
standard Connecticut's Supreme
Court on Monday revived a lawsuit that
challenges the state's method of funding
public schools, saying the state
constitution promises an education that is
good...
Conn. lawmaker: let towns tax marijuana
Hearing on proposed fuel cell plant
Many Trumbull residents are not happy with
the plans to put in a fuel cell plant in
their backyard. This is plain ignorance, as
fuel cells are not as dangerous as the car
you drive. If we ever wish to become energy
independent, we need to go ahead, and figure
out these kinds of technologies. I would
much rather have this than a coal fired
plant, as it is non-polluting, and safe.
Come on folks do your homework
Report: Conn.
minorities'
graduation rates
are low
Plastic on
Groton beaches
washed out of
sewage plant
during flooding
Lieberman
'hesitant' to
support Obama's
nuclear treaty
Officials trying to trace oil spill in Pawcatuck River
Expired plate
nets North
Branford drug
bust |
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ARIZONA PASSES STRICT IMMIGRATION LAW
Cops Required To Check Immigration Status If There's 'Reasonable
Suspicion'
St. Augustine Godless Billboard Damaged A billboard on U.S. 1 in
St. Augustine bearing the message, "Don't Believe in God? You Are
Not Alone," has suffered major damage. The billboard, located about
6 miles north of State Road 16 and visible to southbound traffic,
raised controversy when it first appeared March 29. Now those behind
that message believe vandalism may have been involved
Security Issues
Guam angry over planned base Usually military-friendly
island fears new U.S. Marine site will overwhelm its infrastructure.
Oklahoma conservatives, lawmakers plot anti-federal militia
Frustrated by recent political setbacks, tea party leaders and some
conservative members of the Oklahoma Legislature say they would like
to create a new volunteer militia
Dismantling of Saudi-CIA Web site illustrates need for clearer
cyberwar policies By early 2008, top U.S. military
officials had become convinced that extremists planning attacks on
American forces in Iraq were making use of a Web site set up by the
Saudi government and the CIA to uncover terrorist plots in the
kingdom.
Diplomat was to meet jailed terrorist A Qatari diplomat
was on his way to an official visit with an imprisoned al-Qaida
sleeper agent when he touched off a bomb scare by slipping into an
airline bathroom for a smoke,
Spying on Computer Spies Traces Data Theft to China Security researchers have monitored a spying
operation in which China-based intruders pilfered documents from the
Indian Defense Ministry.
Obama's New Nuclear Plan Leaves Missiles On Hair Triggers
'Patriot groups' plan gun rallies on OKC bombing anniversary
FBI
Raids Michigan Militia
New Study: 88,000 U.S. Citizen Children Lost Parent to Deportation
Christian Militia - Right Wing Extremists On The Rise (What Happened
To The DHS Report?)
Prosecutors: Ex-Marine Made Christian Militia's 'Hit List' Of
Officials
Audit: Costly FBI computer upgrade drags further A Justice
Department audit has found the FBI's long-delayed computer upgrade
is getting slower and costing more.
Courts
FEC
commissioner faces disbarment
complaint in DC court after Raw Story report
she submitted an affidavit in a court case claiming that "the RNC
is not initiating, controlling, directing, or funding any programs
of 'voter challenges' ... The RNC has not initiated any challenges
to the absentee ballots in Ohio or in any other state." The
statement was later questioned by the judge, who said her affidavit
"belied the evidence" in the case.The Velvet Revolution complaint, a
copy
of which was provided to Raw Story, charges that Hunter's
affidavit may have been designed to be deliberately misleading and
that "the case for Ms. Hunter's disbarment is clear and simple."
Daimler admits bribery in US German carmaker Daimler pleads guilty to US corruption
charges and agrees to pay $185m (£121m) to settle the case.
(Calif.)
Judge says San Carlos can ban a Sarah Palin billboard along Highway
101
A 12-year-old New York schoolgirl who was arrested and handcuffed
for doodling on her classroom desk is suing police for one million
dollars, a report said.Lawyers for Alexa Gonzalez claim police used excessive force and
violated her rights in the February incident at
Junior High School 190 in the Queens neighborhood.Gonzalez's mother, Moraima Camacho, told the Daily News that the
schoolgirl merely scribbled "I love my friends Abby and Faith" -- in
washable green ink -- when teachers pounced on her and dragged her
to the dean's office.Police were called and officers cuffed and arrested the pre-teen.
At the police station she was handcuffed to a pole for more than two
hours, according to the lawsuit against the police and education
departments.
Biotechnology ruling: Federal judge says cancer DNA in genes can't
be patented
US Appeals Court Returns Terror Case to RI Judge
A federal appeals court has ordered a Rhode
Island judge to hear more arguments on whether to vacate a $116
million judgment against the Palestine Liberation Organization and
the Palestinian Authority over a 1996 terror attack that killed a
U.S. citizen and his wife.
12-Year-Old Murder Suspect To Be Tried As An Adult(11 at time of
crime)
Judge raps Berkshire (Warren Buffett ) company (docked in Omaha
court for $32 million)
Justice Gives up Bungled Abramoff-Related Lobbying Case
Sloppy Justice case against ex-Bushie,
conservative talker Horace Cooper, ends
with misdemeanor plea.
Environment
World's 4th
Largest Lake Has
Shrunk By 90
Percent
Coral Reefs Face
Extinction
Within Century
Half of
Caribbean Coral
Already Gone;
Climate Change,
Pollution,
Development,
Bottom-Dragging
Fishing Boats
Blamed
Price tag of
closing locks to
Asian carp: $4.7
billion, new
study says
Study Shows
Rising Water
Temperatures In
U.S. Streams And
Rivers
Twenty major
U.S. streams and
rivers have
shown
statistically
significant
long-term
warming.
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Media
Stewart Rips Fox News For Inaccurate Reporting On Nuclear Arms
Treaty
Huckabee Compares Gays To Drug Users, Says They’re Unfit To Adopt
Kids Because ‘Children Are Not Puppies’ Former Arkansas governor and current Fox News personality
Mike Huckabee gave an
interview with the College of New Jersey’s magazine The
Perspective in which he made clear that he is just as intent on
depriving gay men and women of equal status as ever. For instance,
he said that gay couples shouldn’t be able to get married because it
would be like accommodating drug habits of addicts:
Sean Hannity's Charity Accused Of 'Deceptive And Illegal' Practices
Beck guest host Doc Thompson: Tanning salon tax makes health care
reform a ‘racist law.’
Toby Keith Joins LL Cool J, Says Palin Never Interviewed Him For Fox
Show
Adobe Hits Hard On Apple Cutting Flash From Open Internet -
Political Overtones
The AP
fact-checks Breitbart, and Breitbart loses
Report: Breitbart used 'wrong video' to claim Dem
lawmakers lied about racial slurs. For weeks, an argument has been raging between liberal and
conservative commentators over whether or not Tea Party protesters
yelled racist and homophobic slurs at Democratic lawmakers on the
day the House passed the health care overhaul.
Newspaper chain
sneakily
astroturfs its 'right-wing' editorials
Nervous Murdoch struggles to name one Dem at Fox News
Police/Prison
Whole Foods
Store
Announcement:
'All Blacks
Leave The Store'
Girl Charged In
Copycat Of
Walmart Case
Man
‘disenchanted
with the federal
government’
indicted for
planting pipe
bombs in
mailboxes.
Violent parolees
go unsupervised
under Calif. law
Scanner nabs
unregistered
cars, crooks
When it comes to fighting crime police will use any tool they can get their hands on. In Branford, they've equipped one of their cars with cameras that act almost like a set of eyes in the back of officer's heads.
Two officers
suspended for
using Taser on
10-year-old boy
One dead, five
injured in
Washington, D.C.
mass shooting
Hutaree Michigan
Militia leader
was a Ron Paul
fanatic who
believed the
Antichrist was
on the way
Four Dead in
"Bloodbath" at
San Fernando
Valley
Restaurant
Civil Rights
Army: Gays Will
Be Discharged If
They Speak Up
Former Cherokee
Nation chief
Wilma Mankiller
dies Former
Cherokee Nation
Chief Wilma
Mankiller, one
of the nation's
most visible
American Indian
leaders and one
of the few women
to lead a major
tribe, died
Tuesday after
suffering from
cancer and other
health problems.
U. of Wis. Cuts
Ties With Nike
Over Labor
Concerns
University of
Wisconsin-Madison
cuts ties with
Nike over
treatment of
Honduran workers
Father Can Take
Jewish Daughter
To Catholic
Church, Court
Rules
Drug War
Mexican drug
gangs
increasingly
target US public
land
Not
far from
Yosemite's
waterfalls and
in the middle of
California's
redwood forests,
Mexican drug
gangs are
quietly
commandeering
U.S. public land
to grow millions
of marijuana
plants and using
smuggled
immigrants to
cultivate them.
40 Mexican
Prisoners Escape
Near Border
Mexico's "King
of Heroin"
Busted
Mexico's Drug
Wars Fuel
Northern Flight
As Ciudad Juarez
Becomes More
Dangerous,
Wealthy Mexicans
Flee to El Paso,
Texas, for a New
Life
Same-sex
marriage leads
Catholic
Charities to
adjust benefits
Employees
at Catholic
Charities were
told Monday that
the social
services
organization is
changing its
health coverage
to avoid
offering
benefits to
same-sex
partners of its
workers
Philadelphia
DA sort-of
decriminalizes
marijuana...
54 Arrested
After 3
Shootings Near
Times Square
'Drug offender'
could be added
to licenses
Second-conviction
felony drug
dealers should
have that noted
on their
driver's
licenses, a
House committee
said Tuesday.
RX drug abuse
'is off the
charts'
Education
Why Do Finland's
Schools Get The
Best Results?
Finland's
schools score
consistently at
the top of world
rankings, yet
the pupils have
the fewest
number of class
hours in the
developed world.
Colleges move to
stop profs from
cashing in on
textbooks
College Degrees
More Expensive,
Worth Less in
Job Market
Religion Scholar
RESIGNS After
Endorsing
Evolution
A
prominent Old
Testament
scholar has
resigned from a
professorial
position after
he was recorded
on video
endorsing
evolution.
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Fruit juice now a cancer threat?
Researchers claim 'many' popular fruit juice brands contain
antimony.
Element 117 discovered
Asteroid to pass Earth within moon's orbit
Scientist cites pressure by FDA A
former Food and Drug Administration
scientist said Tuesday that his job was
eliminated after he raised concerns about
the risks of radiation exposure from
high-grade medical scanning.
GE announces new LED bulb will last for 17 years
Hallucinogens Have Doctors Tuning In Again Scientists are studying the drugs’
potential for treating mental problems and illuminating the
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In June 2006, old
CIA documents about Nazis and
stay-behind networks dedicated to
anti-communism were released. Among the 27,000 documents was a
March 1958 memo from the German
BND agency to the CIA, which stated that Eichmann was reported
to have lived in Argentina since 1952 using the alias "Clemens".
However, the CIA took no action on this information, because
Eichmann's arrest could embarrass the US and Germany by turning
public attention to the former Nazis they had recruited after World
War II.[15]
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Heckler Removed at McCain-Palin Rally
Utah Gov. OKs Eminent Domain Use on Federal Land
Fed up with federal ownership of more than
half the land in Utah, Republican Gov. Gary Herbert on Saturday
authorized the use of eminent domain to take some of the U.S.
government’s most valuable parcels
RNC spent $1946.25 at sex-themed nightclub Voyeur West Hollywood.
GOP Walks Back Anti-Census Fearmongering ..
Conservatives Returning Census At High Rate ..
Craziest Census Conspiracy Theories
Former Labor Department Official Caught Up In Abramoff Scandal
Ex-TSA nominee's Army contract questioned Firm owned by Robert
A. Harding, who withdrew his nomination to lead TSA, received
consulting deal after claiming sleep apnea as a disability.
Florida House gives itself a 4% raise instead of a 3% cut in pay.
Treasury/Federal
Reserve/Bailouts/SEC/IRS
SEC
Proposes Banks Share Losses on Asset-Backed Securities The
Securities and Exchange Commission has unveiled new proposals for
regulating asset-backed securities, seen by many as a key cause in
the nation’s financial meltdown.
SEC Asks Others If Used Lehman Accounting Gimmick
The Securities and Exchange Commission is
asking the biggest U.S. financial institutions for information on
their use of a specific accounting device, as regulators investigate
Wall Street’s actions in the run-up to the financial crisis of 2008.
The SEC's request, in letters to the chief financial officers
of nearly two dozen large financial firms and insurance companies,
follows revelations that Lehman Brothers used the so-called Repo 105
device to mask tens of billions of dollars in debt before it
collapsed in September 2008.
SEC
Employees Viewed Porn While Rome (and Wall Street) Burned Well,
we knew that SEC employees
weren’t policing the Lehman Brothers or sharing information on its
collapse with the Fed and they
weren’t getting Goldman to disclose how much money Tim Geithner got
AIG to pay them from the U.S. Treasury in a timely fashion, and
they certainly
weren’t issuing rules to allow them to enforce the 2003 settlement
with investment banks over deliberately skewed market analysis.
But today, we finally know what SEC employees were doing for the
last couple of years. They were viewing pornography.
Next player in financial crisis to not take blame for it: Citi Two leaders of disgraced financial titan
Citigroup on Thursday told a special panel looking into the origins
of the financial crisis that they were unaware of the huge potential
for losses from bad mortgages and argued that federal regulators
failed to see the very same threats.
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Insider-Trading Case to Test SEC Reach A Deutsche Bank bond salesman and a hedge-fund trader stand
accused of improperly using nonpublic information involving a bond
offering. The case is a test of how far regulators can go in
pursuing insider trading.
No criminal
charges seen in AIG's collapse: TV report
Obama Adviser Paul Volcker: Failing Big Banks Need To Fear
Government Closure
U.S. begins new wave of UBS client tax cases
Big Banks Mask Risk Levels (18 Banks Understated Debt Levels)
Taxpayers Loaned Bank $100 Million; Bank Leased Pittsburgh Steelers
Stadium Suite When top officials at the U.S. Treasury
Department invested $100 million in Pennsylvania-based First
National Bank last year to help it ride out the economic slump, they
probably did not think the bank 's executives would be shelling out
six figures for luxury seating at Pittsburgh Steelers games.
Finally! SEC Charges a Big Bank with Fraud Finally! Nearly two
years after one of the worst financial crashes in history—and nearly
three years after the crisis broke out—the SEC has charged a major
bank with accounting fraud. On Wednesday, the SEC charged Regions
Financial subsidiary Morgan Keegan with fraudulently overvaluing its
holdings subprime mortgage securities. The company was running
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Contradicting MSM coverage, O'Keefe 'never claimed he was a
pimp,' 'did not act as a journalist'..
GOP candidate accused of fraud
Dem opponent of former US Attorney sparks nominating petition
inquiry.
Many Tea Party Activists, Out Of Work, Turn To Government For Help
Code Pink Attempt Citizens Arrest Of Karl Rove & Call Him A War
Criminal At Book Signing
Former Florida GOP Chairman Under Criminal Investigation
As Florida GOP financial mess deepens, Crist asks for federal probe Gov. Charlie Crist, a Republican, asked
federal authorities Friday to investigate the Republican Party of
Florida amid growing concerns about secret deals and misspent money.
Health Insurance
Dems
Adopted Conservative Cost-Control Principles In Health Care Bill
Will Health Reform Law Stop Insurers From Denying Coverage?
A Loophole That Deserves More Attention
High-risk health insurance pools set to begin in June
Romney Says Massachusetts Not A Model For Health Reform, After
Urging Dems To Use It As Model
Heritage Touted RomneyCare, Key Elements Of Health Reform Heritage
Now Opposes
Defense Spending
Defense Dept. says F-35 fighter program's costs to significantly
rise Defense Dept. says F-35 fighter program's costs to
significantly rise Bob Cox | The Fort Worth Star-Telegram last
updated: April 07, 2010 07:54:36 AM Defense Department officials
have told Congress that the already ballooning costs of the F-35
joint strike fighter are likely to soar much higher when new
estimates are completed in the summer.
Laser Plane Destroys Missile in Expensive Experiment Buoyed by a
light show, proponents of the Reagan-era strategy (and their
military-industrial allies) press on, despite the Defense
Secretary's misgivings
Stimulus
Stimulus tied to 2.2 million jobs - White House
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Senate
Missouri hatemonger runs racist radio ads... to get elected to U.S.
Senate
Republican Senator threatens filibuster if next Supreme Court pick
stands up 'for the little guy'
Another GOP senator blocks extension of jobless benefits
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Conservative Congressmen Face Ethics Complaints For 'C Street House' House
Private contractor earmarks cut House Democratic leaders ban
practice of doling out multimillion-dollar, no-bid contracts.
Alan Grayson Confronts GOP For Spying On Democratic Gathering
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Obama
Obama Team Is Divided on Tactics Against Terrorism Senior
lawyers in the administration are divided over the counterterrorism
powers — including detention without trial — inherited from former
President George W. Bush.
Everything You Need To Know About Obama's New Mortgage Aid Plan Borrowers
will get help in three ways: Jobless homeowners can get a
three-to-six-month break on their mortgage payments. Banks will get
financial incentives to reduce mortgage balances for under-water
borrowers. And lenders can offer refinanced loans backed by the
Federal Housing Administration to these borrowers. The program
depends on the willingness of mortgage companies to participate.
Their track record has been shaky at best
Banks Could Be Big Winners of President Obama’s Foreclosure
Prevention Program
Obama Signs Nuclear Arms Treaty With Russian President
CIA
CIA's top
spy: Intelligence hasn't 'suffered at all' from torture ban
CIA videotape case winds down Inquiry into statements about
destruction of interrogation tapes nears a close, sources say.
DOJ
Justice Department Steps Up Antitrust Investigation Of Top Tech
Companies
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Baraknaphobia
Army Officer Joins Birthers, Refuses To Follow Obama's Orders
Bachmann: Obama controls a majority of the US economy
GITMO/Bahgram/CIA-Blacksites
Support for Gitmo on the rise
More
Americans now believe military prison in Cuba should stay open.
Gitmo Detainees Collecting Food Donations For Haiti Quake Victims
Military terror trials flawed, too Using commission to try
accused Sept. 11 plotter could open case to legal uncertainty,
critics say.
George W. Bush 'knew Guantánamo prisoners were innocent
Guantánamo Prisoner Successfully Challenges Unlawful Detention Elsewhere, flights resumed Friday at the U.S. Manas air base
in the Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan after being halted for two
days during an uprising against the government. Manas is a key
support center for the international troops in Afghanistan, and
President Obama's national security adviser, Gen. Jim Jones, told
reporters Friday it's too early to know how the change in government
affects the base's future.
CIA says ACLU-backed plan endangered Gitmo
officers A team of CIA counterintelligence officials recently visited
the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and concluded that
CIA interrogators face the risk of exposure to al Qaeda through
inmates' contacts with defense attorneys, according to U.S.
officials. The agency's "tiger team" of security specialists was
dispatched as part of an ongoing investigation conducted jointly
with the Justice Department into a program backed by the American
Civil Liberties Union. The program, called the John Adams Project,
has photographed covert CIA interrogators and shown the pictures to
some of the five senior al Qaeda terrorists held there
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'Half'
of commercial mortgages to go 'underwater' in 2010
Growth of Unpaid Internships May Be Illegal, Officials Say The
number of unpaid internships has climbed in recent years, leading
officials to worry that employers are illegally using interns for
free labor.
Automaker Pensions Underfunded by $17 Billion
Jobless claims rise unexpectedly
Puppets Explain Financial Crisis On 'Dylan Ratigan Show'
Commerce Department: China dumped cheap steel in U.S. In a ruling important to many companies
across the country, the Commerce Department announced Friday that
Chinese steelmakers sold steel tubes used by the oil and gas
industry at below-market value in the U.S., a practice that domestic
steelmakers say has harmed their operations.
Did Foreigners Cause America's Financial Crisis? A new study
posits that the long overlooked cause of the financial crisis is not
greedy bankers or sleazy mortgage brokers, but foreign bureaucrats
New York Hipsters Filling Out Census At Record-Low Rate
Former Fannie Mae chief says failure was inevitable
TWO MEGABANKS NOW SUPPORT AGGRESSIVE MOVES TO SAVE HOMES
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Freed American Expected to Return to U.S. Soon
The Pentagon announced the release of Issa T.
Salomi, which a Shiite militant group said was in exchange for
the Iraqi government agreeing to release four militants.
BP Aims to Revive Iraq's Oil BP awarded about $500 million in contracts to drill wells
in Iraq's giant Rumaila oil field, kicking off a huge push
by foreign oil companies to revive the country's troubled
energy industry.
Military lost copy of Wikileaks video
SHOCKER: Pentagon cannot find its own copy of video leaked
Monday.
Baghdad apartment, market bombs kill 50 Iraqi security forces disrupted a 9/11-style plot by al-Qaida in Iraq to fly hijacked planes into Shiite religious shrines, Iraqi and U.S. officials said Wednesday.
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Iran Shipper Evades U.S. Blacklist
Iran's largest shipping company has changed the names of most of
its vessels to evade sanctions, but the Treasury Department has yet
to update the blacklist that is used to verify they are in
compliance.
Iran: Jailed hikers tied to U.S. intelligence Iran's
intelligence minister accused three Americans jailed since crossing
the border from Iraq in July of having links to U.S. intelligence
services, state TV reported Thursday. The comments toughened Iran's
accusations against the group, suggesting authorities could be close
to bringing them to trial after months of mixed signals and fears in
the United States that they could be used as bargaining chips in
Iran's confrontation with the West.
Dubai
Sentence Upheld For Kissing Couple Arrested In Dubai At one point, Mr. Karzai suggested that he
himself would be compelled to join the other side -- that is, the
Taliban -- if the parliament did not back his controversial attempt
to take control of the country's electoral watchdog from the United
Nations, according to three of those who attended the meeting,
including a close ally of the president.
Dubai jails two over Chechen murder
A Dubai court has jailed two men for 25 years each in connection
with the murder of a former Chechen military leader. Sulim Yamadayev was shot dead in the emirate in March of last
year.
Yemen
U.S. move against radical cleric could provoke backlash in Yemen Yemen appeared to balk this weekend at the
Obama administration's decision to authorize the capture or
assassination of Anwar al Awlaki, an American cleric who's been
linked to the 9/11 attackers, the Fort Hood shooter and the
Christmas Day underwear bomber.
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Lebanon
Hezbollah questioned over Hariri Hezbollah's leader says members
of his group have been questioned by the UN about Rafik Hariri's
assassination in 2005.
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German friendly fire kills 6 Afghan soldiers
Gardez investigation concludes A thorough joint investigation
into the events that occurred in the Gardez district of Paktiya
Province Feb. 12, has determined that international forces were
responsible for the deaths of three women who were in the same
compound where two men were killed by the joint Afghan-international
patrol searching for a Taliban insurgent.
Backward steps in AfghanistanThe fact President Karzai
has now effectively given himself the ability to appoint people to
the Electoral Complaints Commission, which would pass judgment on
the validity and fairness of the next election, is a step many may
find hard to accept, especially since it was the Canadian-chaired
ECC which exposed massive fraud by Karzai supporters during the last
election.
Some see it as a blatant attempt to manipulate the vote during the
next general election. In the brief period of two weeks President
Hamid Karzai has unilaterally changed the way Afghanistan's
electoral watchdog operates and has also banned journalists from
reporting during Taliban attacks in that country.
Afghans Angered By U.S. Condolence Payments: "Afghans Must Seem
Like Animals to the Americans" By the U.S. military's
calculations, the death of an Afghan child or adult is worth $1,500
to $2,500, loss of limb $600 to $1,500, a damaged or destroyed
vehicle $500 to $2,500.
Italians arrested over Afghan plot Three medical workers among
nine arrested for allegedly plotting to kill Helmand governor.
Taliban Capitalize on Logging Ban A 2006 ban on logging and lumber sales in Afghanistan has given a
powerful boost to the Taliban, helping turn a region neighboring
Pakistan into one of Afghanistan's most dangerous provinces
US suspends Kyrgyzstan-Afghanistan troop flights
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Canada tells Clinton troops are leaving in 2011
“Our President Is Deceiving the American Public”: Pentagon Papers
Whistleblower on President Obama and the Wars in Afghanistan and
Iraq We are joined by a man who played a major role in efforts to end
the Vietnam War in the 1970s. In 1971, the then-RAND Corporation
analyst Daniel Ellsberg leaked to the media what became known as the
Pentagon Papers, a 7,000-page classified history outlining the true
extent of US involvement in Vietnam. After avoiding a life sentence
on espionage charges, Daniel Ellsberg has continued to speak out
against US militarism until the present da
Afghan parliament rejects Karzai takeover of vote panel
Taliban Retake Control, Momentum In Northern Marjah
Karzai Slams the West Again Karzai accused the U.S. of interfering in his country's affairs
and saying the Taliban insurgency would become a legitimate
resistance movement if the meddling doesn't stop.
Hurting U.S. Efforts to Win Minds, Taliban Disrupt Pay The Taliban have killed or beaten people who have
received money from the Marines, or they have pocketed it
themselves.
Former UN Envoy To Afghanistan Suggests Karzai Has A Drug Problem
CIA victim said to have rescued future Afghan pres The only
prisoner known to have died in the CIA's network of secret prisons
once rescued Hamid Karzai
NATO kills 27 Taliban in west
Afghan President Karzai Twice Threatened To Join The Taliban
Special Forces Commander Apologizes for Civilian Deaths, Follows
Afghan Custom In the dusty Afghan village where U.S. troops
killed two pregnant women and three other innocent civilians in
February, a remarkable scene played out today between an aggrieved
father and the most senior special operations office
U.S. Soldier Captured By The Taliban
Kyrgyz army backs opposition government An opposition coalition
proclaimed a new interim government Thursday in Kyrgyzstan after
clashes left dozens dead and said it would rule until elections are
held in six months. It also urged the president, who has fled the
capital, to resign. President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, however, insisted
later Thursday that he is not admitting defeat and he will not
resign. "I don't admit defeat in any way," Mr. Bakiyev said on the
Ekho Moskvy radio station, but also recognized that "even though I
am president, I don't have any real levers of power."
Kyrgyz Opposition Group Says It Will Rule For 6 Months
In Afghanistan, authority shrinks Kandahar slides into
lawlessness as Taliban attacks have forced the government to
retreat.
U.S. Marines going rogue or leading the fight? At Afghan
outpost, troops battle Taliban with an autonomy that riles many
higher up in chain of command but may offer model for future
missions.
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