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Afghanistan
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Obama ‘Withdrawal’ Plan Would Leave More Troops In
Afghanistan Than When He Began His Presidency
US-funded Afghan militias 'beat, rob and kill with
impunity'
Afghan Bank Commission Absolves Karzai Brother
Mahmoud Karzai was among the bank’s politically
connected shareholders and insiders who took out a
total of $925 million in loans, often with no
collateral or even documentation, the commission’s
chairman, Azizullah Ludin, announced at a news
conference here. Only $347 million of that amount is
so far expected to be repaid, he said
90 Percent Of Petraeus's Captured 'Taliban' Were
Civilians
The claims of huge
numbers of Taliban captured and killed continued
through the rest of 2010. In December, Petraeus's
command said a total of 4,100 Taliban rank and file
had been captured in the previous six months and
2,000 had been killed. Those figures were critical
to creating a new media narrative hailing the
success of SOF operations as reversing what had been
a losing U.S. strategy in Afghanistan. But it turns
out that more than 80 percent of those called
captured Taliban fighters were released within days
of having been picked up, because they were found to
have been innocent civilians, according to official
U.S. military data.
Sixth U.S. Soldier Implicated in Murder of Afghans
Afghan Official: NATO Airstrike Kills 14 (All Women
& Children)
U.S. Has Held Meetings With Aide to Taliban Leader,
Officials Say
Iraq
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Missing Iraq money may have been stolen, auditors
say
Iraq criticized for oil metering delays
Auditors cannot reconcile oil revenues and
expenditures because Iraq cannot fully measure its
flow of crude
Pakistan
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Pakistani News
Pakistan denies army major's arrest for CIA links
The Pakistani army denied Wednesday that one of
its majors was among a group of Pakistanis who
Western officials say were arrested for feeding the
CIA information before the American raid that killed
Osama bin Laden. The New York Times, which first
reported the arrests of five Pakistani informants
Tuesday, said an army major was detained who copied
license plates of cars visiting the al-Qaida chief's
compound in Pakistan in the weeks before the raid. Pakistan
Arrests C.I.A. Informants in Bin Laden Raid
Government unaware of US direct funding to military
The government
of Pakistan had complained to the United States that
the military was not informing the government of
direct US funding to the country’s armed forces and
had requested the US inform them of funds being
directed towards the military, revealed a recently
released WikiLeaks cable.
Pakistanis tip off militants again U.S.
officials say Pakistan has apparently tipped off
militants at two more bomb-building factories in its
tribal areas, giving the terror suspects time to
flee, after U.S. intelligence shared the locations
with the Pakistani government.
Pakistan officers taught anti-US courses: WikiLeaks
Benazir Bhutto Sought U.S. Security But Was Denied:
WikiLeaks
Pakistan retakes naval base after just six militants
lay seige
Troops
recaptured a Pakistani naval air force base on
Monday after a 16-hour battle with as few as six
Taliban gunmen.
Cables show US special operations in Pakistan
Leaked US diplomatic messages show Pakistani
military requested more drone strikes and help from
US special forces.
The Americas
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Colonel guilty of Ecuador military revolt
Colonel guilty of Ecuador military revolt June 29
2011 at 09:52am A colonel was found guilty Tuesday
of crimes against state security for his role in the
shock September 30 revolt in which President Rafael
Correa was forcibly detained for hours, court
sources said
Killings of Trade Union Activists Continue in
Guatemala
Manuel Zelaya Discusses the WikiLeaks Cables About
the U.S. Ties to the Honduran Military
Cable Depicts Faudulent Haiti Election ("U.S.
Knowingly Supported Rigged Election") The United
States, the European Union and the United Nations
decided to support Haiti’s recent presidential and
parliamentary elections despite believing that the
country’s electoral body, “almost certainly in
conjunction with President Preval,” had “emasculated
the opposition” by unwisely and unjustly excluding
the country’s largest party, according to a secret
US Embassy cable
Africa
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News from Africa
Tunisia’s Ben Ali sentenced in absentia to 35 years
in jail
The
ex-leader was found guilty after just one day of
deliberation of theft, illegally possessing jewelry
and large sums of cash.
Pfizer victims fear DNA testing Many victims of
botched Nigerian trial abandon compensation claims
because of it. Trovan, a Pfizer drug tested on 200
children and intended to treat a deadly regional
outbreak of meningitis, killed 11 children and left
several more permanently injured in 1996.In
2009, the US pharmaceutical company agreed to pay
$75m to the claimants in compensation. However,
Pfizer introduced DNA testing as part of the process
to qualify for the payment. Many of the victims do
not understand what DNA testing is and, fearing it
is an attempt by the company to use them in another
drug trial, have abandoned their compensation
claims.
Sudan's (disputed oil town on the North/South
border) Abyei 'ablaze' after capture by north
Rwanda army chief gets 30 years for aiding genocide
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda puts away
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Middle East
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‘Mass surveillance’ against Arab world revealed
"For at least two years, the U.S. has been
conducting a secretive and immensely sophisticated
campaign of mass surveillance and data mining
against the Arab world, allowing the intelligence
community to monitor the habits, conversations, and
activity of millions of individuals at once," Brown
wrote Brown's team made the discovery by analyzing
70,000 emails
from data intelligence firm HBGary Federal.
Anonymous stole the emails after HBGary CEO Aaron
Barr told the Financial Times that his
company had identified "core leaders" of the
hacktivist group.
U.S. To Resume Contacts With Muslim Brotherhood
Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli forces in
East Jerusalem as Nakba Day begins
Israeli officials hopes ongoing demonstrations in
East Jerusalem, which follow death of Palestinian
protester over the weekend, will not spill into the
West Bank.....Israeli
left-wing leader: IDF used 'excessive force' in
Naksa Day protests Former MK Uri Avneri
says soldiers are 'trigger-happy' when it comes to
Palestinians yet soft on 'violent' Jewish settlers
Obama endorses Palestinian demand for state based on
1967 borders
Israeli Opposition Leader Backs Obama
On 1967 Borders, Says Netanyahu ‘Violated’
U.S.-Israel Relations ..Jewish
Donors Warn Obama on Israel ...Bush
called for pre-1967 Israeli borders...Obama:
'67 Borders Reflect Long Standing Policy
Hariri murder: UN tribunal issues arrest warrants
Local reports say the warrants name senior members
of the Shia militant and political group Hezbollah.
Nasrallah implies Israel behind Hariri murder
Hezbollah leader says UN tribunal investigating
death of former Lebanese PM should be asking
questions of Israel.
UK training Saudi forces used to crush Arab spring
- Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal said Sunday that
he wants oil prices to drop so that the United
States and Europe don't accelerate efforts to wean
themselves off his country's supply. In an interview
broadcast Sunday on "CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS," the
grandson of the founding king of modern Saudi Arabia
said the oil price should be somewhere between $70
and $80 a barrel, rather than the current level of
over $100 a barrel. "We don't want the West to go
and find alternatives, because, clearly, the higher
the price of oil goes, the more they have incentives
to go and find alternatives," said Talal, who is
listed by Forbes as the 26th richest man in the
world.
Secret Desert Force Set Up by Blackwater’s Founder
United Arab Emirates — Late one night last November,
a plane carrying dozens of Colombian men touched
down in this glittering seaside capital. Whisked
through customs by an Emirati intelligence officer,
the group boarded an unmarked bus and drove roughly
20 miles to a windswept military complex in the
desert sand. Sheik Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan of
Abu Dhabi hired Erik Prince to build a fighting
force. The Colombians had entered the United Arab
Emirates posing as construction workers. In fact,
they were soldiers for a secret American-led
mercenary army being built by Erik Prince, the
billionaire founder of
Blackwater Worldwide, with $529 million from the
oil-soaked sheikdom.
Nuclear Experts Killed In Russia Plane Crash Helped
Design Iran Facility
900 Dead In Syria....100,000
throng to Syrian protesters’ funerals
The country is nearing an "abyss,"
said a rights group.
Europe
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News
Revealed: British government's plan to play down
Fukushima British government officials
approached nuclear companies to draw up a co-ordinated
public relations strategy to play down the Fukushima
nuclear accident just two days after the earthquake
and tsunami in Japan
750,000 Britons strike over austerity plan
Public
workers take to the streets over huge pension cuts.
Police uncover evidence of hundreds more hacked
phones (by News of the World)
Jude Law claims that 'very senior executive' knew of
phone-hacking (by Rupert Murdoch's papers)
Majority of 1,105 arrested during G20 released
without charges....British
police officer charged with manslaughter in G20
death
18-year-old star hacker arrested in Greece
Police in Greece have arrested an 18-year-old star
hacker suspected of breaking into the website of
crimefighting agency Interpol and a number of US
state agencies, a senior officer said on Wednesday.
UK restricts UPS air-cargo screening
Netherlands: Pot shops to be off limits to foreign
tourists
Raging Greeks Stage Biggest Anti-Austerity Protest
Barack Obama agrees to form joint national security
body with UK
Asia
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Asia
Where coal mining is child's work
In northeast India, the
mine conditions are extremely dangerous, and the
miners are often just children.
Three nuclear reactors in meltdown status, TEPCO
admits
The operator of Japan's tsunami-hit Fukushima
nuclear power plant believes fuel has partially
melted inside three reactors.Two
Other Reactors Suffer Serious Damage (Fukushima
Daiichi nuclear complex)....Fukushima
nuclear plant may have suffered 'melt-through',
Japan admits The nuclear fuel in three of the
reactors at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant has
melted through the base of the pressure vessels and
is pooling in the outer containment vessels,
according to a report by the Japanese government
Japanese green tea radioactive intercepted at the
airport of Roissy
Hawaii Monitoring Stations Detect Spike in Fukushima
Radiation
No. 1 plant's air radiation highest measured so far
Radioactive materials found off Miyagi and Ibaraki
Japan's science ministry has detected
extraordinarily high levels of radioactive cesium in
seafloor samples collected off Miyagi and Ibaraki
Prefectures.
Japan nuclear: Radiation halts water clean-up
Excessive levels of strontium detected in seawater
Radioactive strontium that exceeds the
government-set safety level was detected for the
first time in sea water in the inlet next to the
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
Japan Disasters
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US Headlines
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The Supreme Court's Video Game Ruling: Yes to
Violence, No to Sex The unspoken answer that
runs through Scalia’s opinion, and that of the Court
down though the ages, is that violence is normal,
while sex is obscene.
Supreme Court Limits Wal-Mart Sex Bias Case....Lawmakers
Re-Introduce The Equal Rights Amendment In Response
To Wal-Mart Ruling |
This week, the Supreme Court
dealt a blow to 1.5 million women by throwing
out their charges of comprehensive gender
discrimination by retail behemoth Walmart in a 5-4
decision. In response to the ruling, Rep. Carolyn
Maloney (D-NY) and Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ)
re-introduced the
Equal Rights Amendment, a bill that affirms the
equal application of the U.S. Constitution to
both women and men by declaring “equality of rights
under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the
United States or by any state on account of sex.”
Although the ERA applies to government action and
not discrimination by Walmart, ratifying the ERA
would serve an important reminder that gender
discrimination has no place in American society.
Maloney
said, “The Equal Rights Amendment is still
needed because the only way for women to achieve
permanent equality in the U.S. is to write it into
the Constitution,” albeit “more than 200 years
late.”
Ex-NSA Worker to Plead to Lesser Charge in Leak Case
(Tom Drake; Misdemeanor Instead of 10 Felonies)
Between February 2006 and
November 2007, Gorman wrote dozens of articles
involving the NSA, including about its secret
surveillance programs, the spy agency's efforts to
bolster cybersecurity and attempts to stop
leaks.Drake has publicly denied providing her any
classified information.
During Interview With
Saudi Crown Prince, Fox Fails To Disclose That He’s
Second-Largest Shareholder
Meet The ‘Friendly Fracosaurus’: Natural Gas
Industry Produces Propaganda For Children
Climate sceptic Willie Soon received $1m from oil
companies, papers show (funded by ExxonMobil)
Church Report Cites Social Tumult in Priest Scandals
A study commissioned by American Roman Catholic
bishops says abuse occurred because priests who were
poorly prepared landed in the midst of the turmoil
of the 1960s and 1970s.
Is American law enforcement colluding with Cisco?
A top Canadian court slams the U.S. for trying to
crush a corporate whistle-blower
Black Former NFL Player Pulled Over For Looking Like
Someone ‘Transporting Drugs And Guns’
Watch: D.C. cops take down man in wheelchair
Oil spills into Yellowstone River after pipeline
ruptures
Al Qaeda Eying America's Gun Show Loophole....NRA
Refuses To Comment On Al Qaeda Video Urging
Supporters To Exploit Lax U.S. Gun Laws
US allies are among
the leading funders of international terrorism.
The most disturbing, though not
surprising, reports show that the Saudis, our
supposed allies, are among the leading funders of
international terrorism. It appears Saudi Arabia and
the UAE have been financing jihadist groups in
Pakistan for years. A cable written in 2008 by Bryan
Hunt of the U.S. consulate in Lahore, Pakistan,
reads: “financial support estimated at nearly
100 million USD annually was making its way to
Deobandi and Ahl-i-Hadith clerics in south Punjab
from organisations in Saudi Arabia and the United
Arab Emirates ostensibly with the direct support of
those governments.”
Seventy Percent Of Guns Seized in Mexico Originate
In U.S.
Emergency Room Doctors Say They Order Tests Out Of
Fear Weltge is not alone. According to a recent
survey of more than 1,700 emergency room doctors
conducted by the
American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP),
53 percent of respondents said the main reason they
conduct the number of tests they do is fear of
lawsuits. Another 44 percent said that very fear was
the biggest hindrance to cutting emergency
department costs.
Science
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Los Alamitos class must present both views of global
warming
Researchers can predict future actions from human
brain activity Over the course of the one-year
study, human subjects had their brain activity
scanned using
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
while they performed one of three hand movements:
grasping the top of an object, grasping the bottom
of the object, or simply reaching out and touching
the object. The team found that by using the signals
from many
brain regions, they could predict, better than
chance, which of the actions the volunteer was
merely intending to do, seconds later.
Study finds single photons cannot exceed the speed
of light
Human retina protein can function as magnetic sensor
Cell phone radiation officially named a cancer risk....Cell
phones ‘don’t cause cancer’: study
WikiLeaks
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News
Updated
5 WikiLeaks Revelations Exposing the Rapidly Growing
Corporatism Dominating American Diplomacy Abroad
S officials work as salespeople for Boeing. The
merger of state and corporate power is striking in
a slew
of cables detailing US State Department
officials acting as marketing agents on behalf of
one lucky corporation. Earlier this year the New
York Times revealed details about how US
diplomats have actively promoted the sale of
commercial jets built by the US company Boeing.
Haiti earthquake sparked US Gold Rush ...Wikileaks
exposes US profiteering after Haiti earthquake
U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes
And Levis Would Stay Cheap
Wikileaks Haiti: US pushed to lower minimum
wage However, the Columbia Journalism Review has
written up a summary of the Nation piece, recounting
how American clothing makers with factories in Haiti
were displeased after the government raised the
minimum wage more than two and a half times the
previous minimum 24 cents an hour. The U.S. State
Department subsequently brought pressure to bear on
Haiti's president, "who duly carved out a $3 a day
minimum wage for textile companies." But the US
Embassy still wasn't pleased. According to the
Wikileaks report excerpted by the CJr: "A deputy
chief of mission, David E. Lindwall, said the $5 per
day minimum "did not take economic reality into
account" but was a populist measure aimed at
appealing to "the unemployed and underpaid masses.
WikiLeaks Haiti: The PetroCaribe Files How the
US tried—and failed—to scuttle a Venezuelan oil deal
even though it would bring huge benefits to Haiti's
impoverished people
WikiLeaks: Saudis often warned U.S. about oil
speculators |
Economy
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Economy News
CFTC charges 3 firms with oil price manipulation
MAJOR MORTGAGE FIRMS ACCUSED OF FRAUD
Stimulus contractors owe millions in back taxes
Target hired union actors for anti-union videoNY
Target store workers reject unionization....Much
of that unrest has been focused on Target's
competitor, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Over the past
decade, the UFCW has failed several times to
unionize Wal-Mart stores. In 2004, the company
shuttered a Canadian store after it became the first
in North America to win union certification. In
2000, 11 workers in the meatpacking department at a
store in Jacksonville, Tex., voted to join the UFCW.
Soon after, Wal-Mart began stocking only pre-wrapped
meats, effectively eliminating the positions.Watch:
Target’s internal anti-union propaganda video....
Union-Busting Tactics More Pervasive Than Thought:
Study
Citigroup ex-VP arrested in NYC on fraud charges
Start-up That Monitors Employees’ Internet and
Social Media Footprints Gets Gov Approval
New study: You can't live on minimum wage
Moody's warns U.S. on debt ceiling Moody's put
Congress on notice Thursday, warning that it will
review the United States for a downgrade if it
doesn't see progress on raising the debt ceiling.
One percent holds 39 percent of
global wealth
Key regulator: Speculators swamping oil, grain
markets In the sharpest criticism yet of
excessive speculation in oil markets, the head of a
key regulatory agency presented data Thursday
showing that almost nine in 10 traders betting that
oil prices would rise were financial speculators,
not actual end-users of oil.
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Politics
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Political News
Judge Rules Corporations Can Give Directly To
Candidates
Meet The Billionaires Who Are Trying To Privatize
Our Schools And Kill Public Education
Study: Students who resist change see teachers as
biased
Despite what conservatives like Michele Bachmann
think, student perceptions of teacher bias mainly
have to do with the student's own inability to
handle new ideas.
Lobbyist faces criminal charges linked to Senate sex
scandal A key figure in the sex scandal that led
to U.S. Sen. John Ensign's resignation has been
indicted on federal felony charges stemming from his
lobbying of Ensign on behalf of Allegiant Air.
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Republican ‘doctrine’ on suppressing black vote is
key to Md. case, and maybe to 2012 Now, the
document in the hands of the Office of the Maryland
State Prosecutor. It constitutes the centerpiece of
indictments issued this week that that accuse one of
Ehrlich’s most trusted aides, as well as a campaign
consultant, of conspiring to suppress the black vote
last year.
Obama: 'It's Only Fair' to Ask Rich to Give Up Tax
Breaks
Obama's obsession with secrecy In a must-read
article, The New Yorker documents Obama's war on
whistleblowers, and growing legacy
Eric Holder drops broader CIA torture probe
While Fighting To Block SEC Investigation Of Goldman
Sachs, Rep. Darrell Issa Bought Goldman Sachs B
While Fighting To Block SEC Investigation Of Goldman
Sachs, Rep. Darrell Issa Bought Goldman Sachs Bonds
McConnell: GOP Outspoken On Libya Because There’s A
Democrat In The White House Here's an impressive
package of candor from Senate Minority Leader Mitch
McConnell (R-KY), who spoke to reporters Wednesday
at a breakfast roundtable hosted by the Christan
Science Monitor.
NY Prosecutors Subpoena Goldman Sachs (Global
Financial Crisis Role)
Treasury To Punish Three Banks For Poor Mortgage
Servicing
But the
punishment that has been so long in coming may prove
to be short-lived: Treasury will return the money
they're withholding from the three banks once they
make the needed improvements.
Why did Bank of America escape prosecution? An
$8.5 billion settlement suggests they did something
wrong, but the feds never went after them
Historic 'Spending Cut' Bill Increased
Spending By $3 Billion A few weeks after they
cut the deal, we have an answer. It turns out the
six-month spending bill Congress passed in April
increased discretionary outlays through the
remainder of the fiscal year by a bit over $3
billion. In other words, total direct spending will
be higher by the end of September than if Congress
had just set spending on autopilot for the remainder
of the fiscal year back in April.
9 Countries That Do It Better: Why Does Europe Take
Better Care of Its People Than America?
Defense Secretary Nominee Leon Panetta Says The Huge
Defense Budget Isn’t Causing Our Deficits
Mysterious fund allows Congress to spend freely,
despite earmark ban (DoD pork)The defense bill
that just passed the House of Representatives (CNN
can't say "Republican lead House" I guess) includes
a back-door fund that lets individual members of
Congress funnel millions of dollars into projectsRepublicans
Packed Defense Spending Bill With Earmarks
All the crimes Nixon committed are now legal
"Richard Nixon, if he were alive today, might take
bittersweet satisfaction to know that he was not the
last smart president to prolong unjustifiably a
senseless, unwinnable war, at great cost in human
life,"
Ellsberg told CNN. "And his aide Henry Kissinger
was not the last American official to win an
undeserved Nobel Peace Prize.""He would probably
also feel vindicated (and envious) that ALL the
crimes he committed against me -- which forced his
resignation facing impeachment -- are now legal," he
continued."That includes burglarizing my former
psychoanalyst's office (for material to blackmail me
into silence), warrantless wiretapping, using the
CIA against an American citizen in the US, and
authorizing a White House hit squad to 'incapacitate
me totally' (on the steps of the Capitol on May 3,
1971)... But under George W. Bush and Barack Obama,
with the PATRIOT Act, the FISA Amendment Act, and
(for the hit squad) President Obama's executive
orders. [T]hey have all become legal."
Newt Gingrich Charity Paid Cash To Gingrich
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CT Drug
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Conn. House votes to decriminalize small amounts of
marijuana; Gov. Malloy says he will sign bill
Owner of 88 Conn. gas
stations sued over prices One of the largest
gasoline distributors in the Northeast is being sued
by Connecticut gas station operators, who allege the
company is forcing them and many others to pay
unreasonable prices for gas and is playing a major
role in the state having some of the highest gas
prices in the country.
Union Deal Goes Down; Malloy Pledges To Cut Close To
7,500 State Workers
AP Enterprise: Pharmacy
robberies sweeping US A wave of pharmacy
robberies is sweeping the United States as desperate
addicts and ruthless dealers turn to violence to
feed the nation's growing hunger for narcotic
painkillers.
Analysis Finds States That Cut The Most Funding Lost
The Most Jobs
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Salon's Glenn Greenwald reported that activist
David House, one of the founders of the Bradley
Manning Support Network, has been subpoenaed to
appear before the Grand Jury next Wednesday.
Manning's ex-boyfriend Tyler Watkins and
cryptography expert Nadia Heninger have also been
subpoenaed. Last month, House filed a lawsuit against the
U.S. government over the seizure of his laptop and
other electronic equipment by federal agents. He was
returning to the U.S. on Nov. 23, 2010, after a
vacation to Mexico, when all of his electronics were
seized by agents acting without a warrant.
WikiLeaks
Witness Declines to Answer
Questions From Grand Jury
Assange being spied on with CCTV cameras
National Archives (NARA) Releases Pentagon Papers!
40 Years Later—Full Declassification of "One of the
Worst-Kept Secrets in History
Hackers unearth FBI
intelligence report on ‘KopBusters’ filmmaker Barry
Cooper...
Security Issues
Law Enforcement Monitored Twitter Activity Of
Wisconsin Protesters
TSA asked 95-year-old woman to remove adult diaper
Cyber Attack on Gannett Targets U.S. Soldiers
Hackers broke into a Gannett Co database containing
personal information about subscribers to
publications read by U.S. government officials,
military leaders and rank-and-file soldiers,
U.S. extends National Guard stay on Mexico border
United Airlines: Computers coming back online
Facebook, Paypal accounts released by hackers
Company feels strain after data breach A hacker attack on computers at the RSA
Security division of Hopkinton’s EMC Corp. —
and the use of the stolen information to
break into computers at one of the nation’s
biggest defense contractors — has blossomed
into a crisis for the company.
(By Hiawatha Bray, Globe
Staff)
Shadow Internet: Secret U.S. Effort Reportedly Aims
To Help Dissidents
Hackers Say Attacked CIA Site, Service Disrupted
Obama mimics Bush on the border fence
Construction of a wall was completed under
Obama, and he's poised to spend millions more on
sensors and cameras
Canadians secretly added to U.S. security list:
‘Worrying gap between US army, civilians’
Russia, U.S. Get to Keep Smallpox Stocks
The debate over when to destroy the stocks, seen
as the last stage in ridding the planet of the
smallpox disease, has rumbled on for 25 years.
US to store passenger data for years
Draft of Washington-EU deal leaked to
Guardian shows US would retain personal
information for 15 years
Hackers breached U.S. defense contractors The U.S. Department of Homeland Security
(DHS) has begun field testing new technology
designed to identify people who intend to commit
a terrorist act.Nature reported that the DHS has
been conducting tests of Future Attribute
Screening Technology (FAST) in the past few
months at an undisclosed location in the
northeast. The technology uses remote sensors to measure
physiological properties, such as heart rate and
eye movement, which can be used to infer a
person's current mindset.
Cyber Combat: Act of War-Pentagon Sets Stage for
U.S. to Respond to Computer Sabotage With
Military
U.S. Running Out Of Crucial Gas For Detecting
Smuggled Nuclear Weapons
Google Earth Tool Shows Alarming Proximity of
Nuclear Power Plants to Populated Areas
Google Discloses China-Based 'Hijacking' of
Gmail Accounts
F.B.I. Agents Get Leeway to Push Privacy Bounds The F.B.I. plans to issue a new edition of
its manual giving agents more leeway to search
databases, go through household trash or use
surveillance teams to scrutinize people.
Hackers claim breach of US Senate website
NATO Says One of Its Websites Probably Hacked
Oil Spill
Senate panel opens door for BP rig workers'
families to sue
Oil Spill Reported Off Louisiana Coast
Transocean: BP decisions led to Gulf disaster
Environment
Arctic-crossing algae, whale show threat to
Atlantic The Pacific algae, absent from the
North Atlantic for 800,000 years according to
fossil records, apparently returned after
climate change thawed sea ice and currents
carried the microscopic plants across the Arctic
Ocean, they said.
U.S. Declines to Grant Endangered Status to
Bluefin Tuna
Obama Administration Backs Away From
Wilderness Protection Plan
Greenpeace activists force Arctic oil rig to
stop drilling
Greenland ice melts most in half-century: US
New study indicates carbon
release to atmosphere ten times faster than
in the past
State seeks amends at Nevada Test
Site The Nevada Legislature wants the
U.S. government to contain and
mitigate about 300 million curies of
radioactive contamination left in
the soil and water of the former
nuclear weapons testing site.
Fastest Sea-Level Rise in Two Millennia
Linked to Increasing Global Temperatures
GAO: leaks at aging nuke sites difficult to
detect
US judge backs polar-bear ruling US
judge has backed a finding by government
scientists that global warming is
threatening the survival of the polar bear.
Police/Prison
Police Mace JPMorgan Chase Protesters
U.S. imams, kin arrested Two South
Florida imams and a third family member were
arrested Saturday on charges of providing
support to the Pakistani Taliban, the
Justice Department said. In addition, three
others in Pakistan were also indicted on the
same charges. FBI agents arrested Hafiz Khan
and his son Izhar Khan in South Florida, the
department said. They are expected to make
their initial court appearance in federal
court Monday.
Hayward woman charged in mass thefts of IDs
A Hayward woman has been charged with
numerous felony counts for allegedly running
an identity-theft operation that created
fake Social Security and California
identification card
Sheriff’s Office failed to look into 400
sex-crimes
Steady Decline in Major Crime Baffles
Experts
One-Legged Homeless Man Discharged From
Jail Without Wheelchair
Miscommunication
blamed for man having to scoot home
using hands.
Jared Lee Loughner ruled unfit to stand
trial for shooting Rep. Giffords
Hackers attack another Sony network, post
data
Three arrested, accused of illegally feeding
homeless
SWAT team breaks into house
over student loan default
Miami police filmed shooting man in middle
of street....Eyewitness to Miami Beach shooting alleges
police misconduct
Oakland woman videos rape suspect with her
phone
N.C. Man Allegedly Robs Bank for $1 to
Get Health Care in Jail
A 59-year-old man has been jailed in
Gastonia, N.C., on charges of larceny
after allegedly robbing an RBC Bank for
$1 so he could get health care in
prison. Richard James Verone handed a
female teller a note demanding the money
and claiming that he had a gun,
according to the police report. He then
sat down and waited for police to
arrive. "… I say, 'I'll be sitting right
over here, on the chair, waiting for the
police,'"
Feds nab 2,400 in illegal immigrant sting
Federal officials announced Tuesday the
arrests of more than 2,400 illegal
immigrants in a seven-day crackdown
targeting those who are convicted criminals.
7-Year-Old Steals Car, Drives 20 Miles To
See His Dad
Woman Arrested After Videotaping Police From
Her Own Front Yard
Two arrested in alleged Seattle terror plot
6 NYC teens charged with murder as hate
crime
Authorities say six New York City
teenagers have been charged with murder
as a hate crime in the beating and
stomping of an 18-year-old perceived to
be gay.
Police beat, taser handicapped Ohio teen
Bulger offers new details to authorities
A chatty James “Whitey’’ Bulger provided FBI
agents with intriguing details about his
life on the run after his arrest last week,
boasting that he routinely slipped into
Mexico to buy medicine for a heart
condition, according to a law enforcement
official.
3 Marines face charges of adultery, marrying
for financial gain |
Mine Owner’s Negligence Led to Blast, Study
Finds(Massey) Buried in FBI laboratory reports about the anthrax
mail attacks that killed five people in 2001 is data
suggesting that a chemical may have been added to
try to heighten the powder's potency, a move that
some experts say exceeded the expertise of the
presumed killer.
Unintended Pregnancies Cost Taxpayers $11 Billion A
Year: Report
Targeted Peace Activist distrupt AG Eric Holder's
visit to U of MN: Dissent is not a Crime!
4 in US now linked to German E. coli outbreak
Local couple foreclosing on Bank of America strikes
chord worldwide
Apple store employee seeks to plant union seed
Stand Up Chicago: Thousands Rally Against Corporate
Greed, 24 People Arrested
Greed
Wall St. Has No Incentive Not To Commit Crimes
Bikers shut down Westboro Baptists in Joplin
(troops die cause of gays church)
Delta charges troops $2,800 in excess baggage fees
Hacked Sega finds unlikely friend in Sony
hacker LulzSec
Media
FEC Rules Congressmen Can't Solicit Unlimited Money
For Super PACs
Responding to PolitiFact,
Stewart reads list of Fox lies
Google Ideas think tank gathering former extremists
to battle radicalization
Fox News Ticker Gets Hacked in New York AlterNet.flv
Soldier Porn: Why Do Reporters Act Like Giddy
Schoolgirls Around the Military?
Secret Service Blasts Fox News In Rogue Tweet Not even the Secret Service is immune to Twitter
overshares. The Secret Service
Twitter account, which
launched May 9, posted a tweet, since deleted,
blasting Fox News. According to
retweets by other users and screenshots of the
tweet posted to Twitter, the Secret Service tweeted
on Wednesday afternoon, "Had to monitor Fox for a
story. Can't. Deal. With. The. Blathering." (See
screenshot below) The rogue tweet disappeared almost
immediately--and suggests that the Secret Service
has at least one iPad on hand. Was the Secret Service's account hacked? Or did
someone post to the wrong account? And does this
land the Secret Service a spot on the list of worst
Twitter PR fails?
FCC chairman agrees to strike Fairness Doctrine from
rulebooks
Newspaper can legally fire reporter for morbid
tweets
Study: Climate regulation opponents dominate TV
‘Predatory’ cigarette marketing to U.S. black youth: study A new study finds cigarettes are marketed to African-American youths in a "predatory" manner through more ads and lower prices.
Feds Halt Bush-Era Rule Allowing Private Industry To Fund Pipeline Safety Studies
Drug War
Six indicted in record marijuana farm bust Six men were indicted in what local authorities called the largest cannabis farm ever found in Oregon
New bill ending federal ban on marijuana to be introduced in Congress
12,000 Prisoners To Be Released To Rectify ‘Fundamental Unfairness’ Of Past Drug Policy
Drug cartel leader arrested
Warrants served at Fresno Co. pot dispensaries
Major Panel: Drug War Failed; Legalize Marijuana The global war on drugs has failed and governments should explore legalizing marijuana and other controlled substances, according to a commission that includes former heads of state, a former U.N. secretary-general and a business mogul. A new report by the Global Commission on Drug Policy argues that the decades-old "global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies
Dozens of Central Valley gang leaders arrested in one-day sweep
Court uses broad 'cocaine base' definition The U.S. Supreme Court Thursday unanimously adopted a broad definition for "cocaine base," meaning more defendants are eligible for longer terms.
Education
Chris
Christie
Announces
Plan
To
Privatize
New
Jersey
Public
Schools
U.S.
Students
Remain
Poor
at
History,
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Courts
Blagojevich guilty of trying to sell Obama’s Senate seat
Mortgage
exec
gets
30
years
for
$3
billion
fraud
NYT reporter subpoenaed in CIA case
· Federal prosecutors issued a subpoena for a New York Times reporter to testify about classified documents he allegedly received from a former CIA operative who is charged with illegally leaking the information.
Supreme Court upholds warrantless search of apartment based on marijuana smell
Judge keeps imams in jail until trial
· A federal magistrate Monday ordered two South Florida Muslim clerics be held in jail while they await trial with other family members on charges of conspiring to send thousands of dollars to Pakistani terrorists for arms and other militant resources
Cisco Helped Chinese Government Suppress Falun Gong, Lawsuit Claims
Long Path to Courtroom for War Contractor Accused of Bribery
Supreme Court Revives Suit Against Halliburton
NJ court: No shield law for message boards posters the New Jersey Supreme Court says people posting in online message boards don't have the same protections for sources as mainstream journalists. The court ruled Tuesday that New Jersey's shield law for journalists does not apply to such message boards.
Woman Could Get 15 Years for Recording Cops After One Of Them Allegedly Assaulted Her
2
Punished
After
Disabled
Gays
Told
to
Leave
Pool
Tyell Morton: High School Student Facing 8 Years in Prison for Prank The 18-year-old put a blow-up doll in the girls' bathroom at his high school in Rushville, Ind.
Microsoft Loses Appeal in Patent Case
Using a car to flee police can count as 'violent felony,'
Supreme Court rules
Chicago Man Guilty Of Aiding Mumbai Attack Group
Wal-Mart
loses
$187.6M
worker
break
case
Bin
Laden
charges
formally
dropped In federal court in Manhattan on Friday, prosecutors disposed of a 1998 indictment that charged bin Laden with murder and conspiracy to kill Americans for his role in attacking U.S. embassies in East Africa in 1998. The indictment also alleged that bin Laden tried to attack U.S. defense assets.
Justices reject multistate lawsuit over global warming
Trafficking victim testifies, vanishes
Outcry in America as pregnant women who lose babies face murder charges Gibbs became pregnant aged 15, but lost the baby in December 2006 in a stillbirth when she was 36 weeks into the pregnancy. When prosecutors discovered that she had a cocaine habit – though there is no evidence that drug abuse had anything to do with the baby's death – they charged her with the "depraved-heart murder" of her child, which carries a mandatory life sentence.
Conrad Black going back to prison
BART settles with (Oscar) Grant's mother for $1.3 million
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Immunity Gene Cures Man Of AIDS
Autism changes molecular structure of the brain,
study finds For decades, autism researchers have faced a baffling riddle: how to
unravel a disorder that leaves no known physical
trace as it develops in the brain.
Electron is surprisingly round, say scientists
following 10 year study (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Imperial College London have made the
most accurate measurement yet of the shape of the
humble electron, finding that it is almost a perfect
sphere, in a study published in the ...
Moon may have more water than believed: study
Ancient hominid males stayed home while females
roamed
CERN physicists trap antihydrogen
atoms for more than 16 minutes
Can evolution outpace climate change? Animals and plants may not be able to evolve
their way out of the threat posed by climate change,
according to a UC Davis study of a tiny seashore
animal.
Two New Elements Added to Periodic Table
New class of stellar explosions discovered
They're bright and blue-and a bit strange. They're a
new type of stellar explosion that was recently
discovered by a team of astronomers led by the
California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Among
the most
A big surprise from the edge of the solar system:
magnetic bubbles (w/ video)
Fermilab experiment fails to confirm new particle
claim
Brain scan identifies patterns of plaques and
tangles in adults with Down syndrome
Magic mushroom’s positive effects
lasting over a year, say researchers
Breeding with Neanderthals helped humans go global
E. coli 'passed from human to human' The E. coli
bug responsible for a deadly recent outbreak in
Germany has been passed from human to human for the
first time.
13,000-Year-Old Discovery May Be First In North
America
Scientists Say World's Top-Selling Weedkiller Causes
Birth Defects
Strongest evidence yet indicates Enceladus hiding
saltwater ocean Samples of icy spray shooting from Saturn's moon
Enceladus collected during Cassini spacecraft flybys
show the strongest evidence yet for the existence of
a large-scale, subterranean saltwater ...
New fossils demonstrate that powerful eyes evolved
in a twinkling (w/ video) Palaeontologists have uncovered
half-a-billion-year-old fossils demonstrating that
primitive animals had excellent vision.
At small scales, tug-of-war between electrons can
lead to magnetism under surprising circumstances
At the smallest scales, magnetism may not work quite
the way scientists expected, according to a recent
paper in Physical Review Letters by Rafal
Oszwaldowski and Igor Zutic of the Univer ...
The Brightest Object Ever Discovered Light from this brilliant, starlike object
took nearly 13 billion years to reach Earth, meaning
the quasar existed when the universe was only 770
million years old – a kid by cosmic standards. The
discovery ranks as the brightest object ever found. To scientists' surprise, the black hole powering
this quasar was 2 billion times more massive than
the sun. How it grew so bulky so early in the
universe's history is a mystery.
Fungus farming ant genome reveals insight into
adaptation of social behavior The Panamanian leaf-cutting ant Acromyrmex
echinatior farms fungus on leaf fragments for
food. Minor workers tend the fungus garden and nurse
the brood, major workers defend the colony and bring
in new leaf fragments.
Animals Get High Too, New Book Says
'Invisibility Cloak' Shields Objects From Sound
Plastic container chem makes male mice act female
Arctic-crossing algae, whale show threat to Atlantic
The Pacific algae, absent from the North Atlantic
for 800,000 years according to fossil records,
apparently returned after climate change thawed sea
ice and currents carried the microscopic plants
across the Arctic Ocean, they said. |
29 minutes ago · LONDON (AP) -- An
Egyptian princess who lived more than 3,500
years ago is the oldest known person to have had
clogged arteries, dispelling the myth that heart
disease is a product of modern society
The French Bomb, with Secret U.S. Help Documents from Nixon and Ford Administrations
Show U.S. Assistance for French Nuclear Forces
Earlier Than Previously Reported
The 18½-minute gap in Watergate tape remains
lost to history after high-tech detective work
Woman sterilized after
state deemed her ‘promiscuous’
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activist labor lawyer
Anthony Weiner Resigns, Prostitute Enthusiast David
Vitter Continues To Be Embraced By GOP Leadership
Tim Pawlenty's Birther Ally Calls Obama A "Jungle
Alien" in NH House Party
Wearing FBI Wire, AL GOPer Called Black Gamblers
‘Aborigines’
Bachmann clinic got $137,000 in Medicaid funds
The GOP presidential candidate's claims that her
family received no federal support are
unraveling Vide
Patriot Act Extension Agreement Reached By
Congressional Leaders
Pawlenty wiped child molester’s record clean in 2008
New Polling Says Overwhelming Majority Wants Social
Security Left Alone
Unions soften
tone on health
Massachusetts labor leaders have given up their
full-throated battle to protect certain
collective bargaining rights amid an increasing
likelihood that the Legislature will empower
local governments to raise the health insurance
costs of teachers, firefighters, and other
municipal employees.
Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin MAKES HISTORY By Signing
Into Law SINGLE PAYER Health Care
Conservative lawmaker, Iraq veteran !!!CRUSHES!!!
GOP gay bashing
Montana KKK candidate running for Congress; says
backlash against Obama will fuel campaign
Palin Falsely Claims Debt Has Grown More Under Obama
Than ‘All Other Presidents Combined’
Palin badly mangles story of Paul Revere's ride
Romney reaffirms stance that global warming is real
Mitt Romney yesterday reaffirmed his view that
global warming is occurring and that humans are
contributing to it, a position that has been
rejected in recent years by many Republicans as the
issue has taken on a greater partisan tinge.
Edwards emails acknowledge payments
Alaska releases thousands of Sarah Palin emails
When liberal groups promote corporate mergers GLAAD, the NAACP and others have taken big money
from AT&T. Is it OK for them to endorse the
AT&T-T-Mobile merger?
Ex-Spy Alleges Effort to Discredit Bush Critic
Obama impersonator cut off at Republican conference
GOP Blocks Jobs Bill That Included Repeal Of Ethanol
Tax Credit, Dozens Of Other Amendments |
Judge strikes down Walker's collective bargaining
law Defense
Spending
The Cost Of War: $20 Billion On Air Conditioning
(Robert) Gates Warns Against Big Cuts in Military
Spending
US Military Warned of S.Korea, Japan Cost Overruns
A US government report
warned Wednesday that the Pentagon was likely
underestimating billions of dollars in costs for a
controversial restructuring of bases in South Korea
and Japan...
House approves $690 billion defense budget
Lockheed Martin space unit to cut about 1,200 jobs
Navy Finds ‘Aggressive’ Corrosion on New Ship
White House Criticizes House Defense Spending Bill
The
Obama administration sharply criticized a $649
billion defense spending bill in the
Republican-controlled House of Representatives on
Thursday because of proposed spending cuts and
limits on the handling of Guantanamo detainees.
Budget and Taxes
The Bush Tax Cuts: 10 Years Later, Still Expensive
And Ineffective
GOP Blew Up Debt Negotiations To Protect Tax Breaks
For People Making $500,000 Or More
Investors may fund social programs Massachusetts could be
among the first states in the country to raise
money for social services by offering investors
the chance to earn profits on programs they
establish.
Nearly Half of Americans Exempt From Federal Income
Tax
Treasury/Federal Reserve/Bailouts/SEC/IRS
DoJ
Settles with Bank of America and Saxon Mortgage for
Illegally Foreclosing on Servicemembers
Gov’t. to lose $14 billion of auto bailout funds
The Obama administration said Wednesday that the
government will lose about $14 billion in taxpayer
funds from the bailout of the U.S. auto industry, a
third of the loss officials had initially estimated
Bank Of America Raided By Deputies To Seize
Homeowners Property
Bank Of America Facing New Investigation
Fed Balance Sheet Hits Another Record Size The
Federal Reserve’s balance sheet expanded to a record
size in the latest week, as the central bank bought
more bonds in an effort to support the economy, Fed
data released on Thursday showed.
FTC moving on broad Google antitrust probe: report
Billionaire said to be under U.S. investigation in
dealings with Jordan Harry Sargeant III, a
well-connected energy magnate, was once the finance
chairman of the Florida Republican Party and a
principal supplier of fuel to U.S. forces in Iraq.
In April,
msnbc.com reported that his Florida-based oil
trading business, International Oil Trading Co., may
have secured an exclusive license to ship the fuel
through Jordan — as defense contracts required — by
paying off the country's government.
SEC Enforcers Said to Weigh Release of Report on
Lehman Abuses U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission investigators may issue a public rebuke
of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and its former
executives instead of suing them for actions that
led to the firm’s 2008 failure, three people with
direct knowledge of the matter said
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Senate extends provisions of the PATRIOT Act
Oregon Senator Wyden freezes second Internet
censorship billSystems like these invite misuse:
criminal appropriation, government abuse and
stretching by everyone possible to apply to
situations that are applicable only by the most
tortuous logic. The FBI illegally
wiretapped the phones of Americans, often
falsely invoking terrorism emergencies, 3,500 times
between 2002 and 2006 without a warrant. Internet
surveillance and control will be no different.In
order to comply with government search warrants on
user data,
Google created a backdoor access system into
Gmail accounts. This feature is what the Chinese
hackers exploited to gain access. |
Congress gave staff $6.1M in bonuses
Delta Rolls Out Platinum Upgrades For Top
Republicans
Fight over Canadian oil pipeline moves to Congress
The dispute is over a plan to send oil from
western Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast
House
Rand Paul, Supposed Defender Of Civil Liberties,
Calls For Jailing People Who Attend ‘Radical
Political Speeches’
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Limousine Liberals: Why Has the Number of
Government-Owned Limos Jumped 73 Percent in 2 Years
of Obama?
President Obama calls for more domestic oil drilling
Congress nixes chance of Obama recess appointments
Republicans forced the Senate to stay in session
over its week-long Memorial Day break in a bid to
prevent President Barack Obama from nominating
Elizabeth Warren.
US to boycott world racism conference at UN He
added that in 2009 the U.S. withdrew from the
planning of the conference because it reaffirmed the
2001 Durban Declaration, "which unfairly singled out
Israel and included language inconsistent with U.S.
traditions of robust free speech."
War Powers Act Does Not Apply to Libya, Obama Argues
Olbermann: Petraeus ‘unfit’ to
lead CIA Current TV host Keith Olbermann
believes that General David Patraeus has
disqualified himself from heading the CIA by the
answer he gave to a question about enhanced
interrogation methods during his confirmation
hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee on
Thursday. As
reported by CBS news, Petraeus initially
“reiterated his support for adhering to the
interrogation methods listed in the U.S. Army Field
Manual. Mr. Obama in 2009 signed an executive order
banning the use of any interrogation method, such as
waterboarding, not listed in the field manual.” |
GITMO/Bahgram/CIA-Blacksites
9/11 Suspects to Be Charged Again at Gitmo The
Pentagon will announce today that Khalid Sheikh
Mohammed and his four alleged 9/11 co-conspirators
are being charged for a second time through the
military commissions at Guantanamo,
High-Value Detainee’s Eye Surgically Removed While
He Was In CIA Custody » This report was written by Jason Leopold and
originally published at Truthout.org. Click here to
listen to Jason Leopold discuss this
Abu Ghraib Inmates Lose U.S. High Court Bid to Sue
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Speculation explains more about oil prices than
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who to blame? Try Wall Street. That's not the
conventional explanation, but it's the one the facts
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UN report calls for regulation to curb speculators
pushing up food prices
Saudis raise oil production to curb prices
Output lifted above 9m b/d for the first time
since mid-2008
Stocks Plunge Amid Fears That Global Economy Is
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Two U.S. Troops Killed as Baghdad Hit by Bombs
Deaths as multiple blasts rock western Iraq
Wheelchair suicide bomber kills two in Iraq
A suicide
bomber in a wheelchair attacked a police station
north of Baghdad on Sunday, killing two people.
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Mubarak to be tried for deaths of protesters
Egyptian Family: The Man Identified by U.S.
Intelligence as 'Saif Al-'Adl' is Our Son, But He's
No Longer Alive – And In Any Event It's
Inconceivable That He Would Be Al-Qaeda Leader
Egypt Permanently Opens Crossing With Gaza Strip
Egypt to put 48 on trial for church
clash
Egypt's
public prosecutor referred 48 Muslims and Christians
to criminal court on Saturday for their roles in
sectarian violence that led to the burning of a
Cairo church in May.
Cairo street clashes leave more than 1,000 injured
Israel
Jewish court sentences dog to death by stoning
A
Jerusalem rabbinical court condemned to death by
stoning a dog it suspects is the reincarnation of a
secular lawyer
Israeli Prime Minister's Son Disparages Muslims In
Facebook Posts
Israel's chief clergy decries arrest of top rabbi
who called for killing gentiles
Hundreds try to storm Supreme Court after police
detain right-wing rabbi
Israel refuses citizenship for gay man married to
Jewish immigrant
The Law of Return is being put to the test by
couple from United States.
Israeli army uses dogs against Palestinian workers
Palestinians desperate for work in Israel now they
face a new hurdle: army attack dogs.
Two trucks plow through vehicles, pedestrians in suspected Tel Aviv terror attack
The drivers then sped off, leaving behind at least 10 casualties, one of them in critical condition; one driver arrested.
Nearly 200 arrested, more than 350 injured in protest at Israeli Embassy
Israel and US Strategic Interests
Lawrence Wilkerson: Egypt, Bahrain, Qatar and Saudi
Arabia are far more important than Israel to US
strategic interests from view of US military
Israeli Ex-Spymaster Takes Swipe At Netanyahu
He suggested that Israel accept a nine-year-old
peace initiative proposed by Saudi Arabia, offering
peace with the Arab world in return for a full
withdrawal from all territories captured by Israel
in the 1967 war. n a speech at Tel Aviv University
on Wednesday, Dagan issued a stern warning against
attacking Iran, saying a strike would risk
unleashing a region-wide war and only encourage
Tehran to push forward with a nuclear program that
is widely believed to be aimed at developing
weapons. Iran denies that..
6 dead as Israeli troops fire along Syrian border
Soldiers fire on pro-Palestinian protesters trying
to infiltrate Golan Heights
Netanyahu condemns West Bank mosque attack as
'criminal act'
Mosque in village near Ramallah torched and
sprayed with graffiti; Defense Minister Barak echoes
PM's condemnation and says IDF will take steps to
catch the perpetrators.
14 Palestinians killed in Syria camp Fourteen
Palestinian refugees were reported killed and
another 43 injured on Monday, a report from the
Palestinian government's WAFA news said.
Lebanon
Hezbollah alleges CIA infiltration
Yemen
Yemeni VP: Control lost in 5 provinces, security worsening
France Admits to Arming Libyan Rebels
C.I.A. Building Base for Strikes in Yemen
CIA Building Mideast Base to Launch Drone Attacks in Yemen - Democracy NOW!
U.S. Is Intensifying a Secret Campaign of Yemen Airstrikes
Wounded Yemeni president in Saudi Arabia
Ali Abdullah Saleh is in Riyadh for treatment amid speculation over his rule, two days after he was injured in attack.
Yemen's Vice President Reportedly Takes Over As Acting President
US, UK and European envoys trapped in Yemen siege The American, British and European Union ambassadors to Yemen are trapped in an embassy surrounded by gunmen angry about efforts by Arab mediators to ease President Ali Abdullah Saleh out of power,
Chaos swirls in Yemen's capital as government buildings burn
Yemen's capital city sank toward anarchy Tuesday as rival armies fought pitched battles in a neighborhood of middle-class homes and government offices in the worst violence to sweep Sanaa since anti-government protests began nearly four months ago. What touched off the fighting remained unclear.
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US Orders Some Diplomats, Family to Leave Yemen
The United States has ordered all non-essential diplomats and embassy family members to leave Yemen amid mounting violence between loyalists and opponents of President Ali Abdullah
Islamic militants seize Yemeni city
Tribesmen seize government buildings in Sanaa Street battles rage in the Yemeni capital while conditions in Taiz and Zinjibar remain tense.
Battle rages in Yemeni capital Heavy fighting continues across Sanaa, with witnesses saying security forces have fired live bullets at protesters.
Al-Qaida militants hold 10 soldiers hostage during fight in south Yemen: official |
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U.S. considers charging Syria with war crimes
Frustrated by regime's intransigence, Obama administration considers bringing pressure with oil and gas sanctions or war crimes charges.
Syria says 120 forces killed in northern 'massacre'
Syrian crowds chant slain boy's name Hamza Ali al-Khateeb got separated from his dad in a Syrian protest. The family received his body a month later, and a video purports to show horrible injuries. His face is now the symbol of an uprising. (Graphic content) FULL STORY
Syria gives 'amnesty' to arrested protesters
Syria fires into Lebanon
U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Syrian Leader and 6 Aides
The move by President Obama increased pressure on Syria in the wake of its crackdown on protests.
Syria mourners 'attacked by security forces'
At least 11 dead and 27 injured in Homs, activists say, as thousands attend funerals for those killed on Friday.
Activists say 34 people killed in the city of Hama during one of the largest anti-government protest
Syria cracks down on protesters, killing 34
As crowds take to the streets following Friday prayers and renew calls for Assad to resign, security forces and snipers open fire.
Video shows mangled bodies of Syrians
Syrian troops accused of firing on locals trying to flee Jisr al-Shughour
Senior Israeli source: Iran actively helping Syria squash demonstrations
Turkey tells Bashar al-Assad to cease Syria repression
Libya
Turkey denies supplying Gaddafi troop rations
'NATO strike hurts 16 Libya opposition'
We'll turn our guns on Libyan rebels if they attack civilians, Nato threatens
Blast rocks hotel in Libya's Benghazi
A car bomb has exploded near a hotel used by foreign diplomats in Libya's rebel-held city of Benghazi.
Rebel in Libya inspired by Che "I invite them to look a little more closely at the situation, who is here fighting and why is he fighting," Piaggesi said as he took a break to prepare for the next round of clashes. "He is going to say that it is for liberty -- not for NATO or for anybody, simply for liberty."
Alleged rape victim sent back to Libya
The Libyan woman whose alleged rape by security forces received worldwide attention has been forcibly deported from Qatar back to Benghazi in Libya, according to multiple sources.
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A Libyan Oil Official's Ulterior Motive
Top Libyan oil official Shokri Ghanem has not defected, contrary to widespread reports, and is secretly working for Muammar Gaddafi to maintain ties with big oil companies, sources at western firms said.
Libyan rebels accused of arbitrary arrests
Libyan rebels are arbitrarily detaining dozens of civilians suspected of being loyal to ruler Moammar Gadhafi and are holding them without trial or due process, Human Rights Watch charged Sunday.
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Pentagon Sees Libya Military Costs Soar
NATO admits mistakenly striking Libyan opposition forces
Libyan rebels in Misrata take tough line on foreign media
Sarkozy Lashes Out At U.S. Over Libya Mission French President Nicolas Sarkozy lashed out Friday at America’s commitment to the NATO effort in Libya, saying that Europe was bearing the main burden of the effort, despite American complaints to the contrary.
Libyan soccer players join rebel side
NATO strikes kill 15 civilians, Libyan official says
Saudi
Arabia
Saudi Arabia, UAE funded jihadi networks in Pakistan
Saudi Arabia Earned $214 Billion From Oil
in 2010, Jadwa Says
Saudi king mediates fresh Yemeni cease fire
'START YOUR ENGINES!': Saudi Women
Protest Driving Ban
Other
Two Bahraini protesters killed
Turkey will not 'close its doors' to Syrian refugees
DC firm defends Bahrain on human rights crackdown A top law firm will be paid $550 per hour to
help Bahrain respond to allegations it fired
trade unionists en masse
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Afghan police sometimes high on drugs, British
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11 die in protests over NATO killings
Eleven
people killed, over 50 injured in Afghanistan on
Wednesday.
Suicide Bomber Strikes At Top NATO, Afghan Leaders
Astonishing survival of soldier with unexploded bomb
wedged INSIDE his stomach after Afghanistan amb
Afghan President Says He Will No Longer Allow NATO
Airstrikes On Houses
Taliban Emergency Sanctions Removed
Afghan Hospital Bomb Kills Dozens
Karzai: Pakistan Firing Missiles Into Afghanistan
Taliban use girl, 8, as bomb mule in attack on
Afghanistan police post
Afghan civilians dying in record numbersMay was
the deadliest month for noncombatants since the U.N.
began keeping track five years ago and buried IEDs
are taking the highest toll. |
4 US Service Members Killed In Afghanistan
Suicide bomber kills 6 in Afghanistan hospital
explosion A midday explosion Saturday caused by
a suicide bomber inside the Kabul's main military
hospital killed six and injured dozens of others,
officials said. Taliban militants claimed credit for
the attack shortly after noon, saying two of their
suicide bombers entered the hospital.
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Afghan soldier kills NATO soldier
Aid workers in Afghanistan attacked
U.S. Sending Training Agents to Afghanistan to Stem
Infiltration of Local Forces
8 NATO Troopers Killed in 1 Day in Afghanistan
Obama Opts for Faster Afghan Pullout
Petraeus' Counterinsurgency Strategy Deemed A
Failure
Half Of World’s Refugees Are Running From U.S. Wars
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