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Published on Tuesday, November 16, 2010 by Inter Press Service by Gareth PorterWASHINGTON - A special envoy from President Barack Obama raised the possibility in a secret meeting with senior Iraqi military and civilian officials in Baghdad Sep. 23 that his administration would leave more than 15,000 combat troops in Iraq after the 2011 deadline for U.S. withdrawal, according to a senior...
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From Alternet's Lauren KellyGlenn Greenwald brings us a new story of the U.S government harassing its own citizens. (or see below, second article)BaManning: Exposing war crimes is no crimeck in July, Jacob Appelbaum, a researcher and spokesperson for WikiLeaks, was detained at New Jersey's Newark airport on his way back from a trip to the Netherlands. Officials confiscated his laptop, cell phone...
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Canada joins the U.S. in promoting the suppression of dissentWatch the farce here
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Wikileaks / Iraq War LogsIf the site is down (may be busy or may be hacked by US government), try the cached version. Danny Schechter Danny Schechter: Pentagon WarGlenn Greenwald: Nixonian HenchmenJuan Cole: Wikileaks & Iraq Government ZNet ArticleThe wikileaks document dump from the Iraq War may well derail the formation of a government by implicating caretaker prime...
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Stand with Bradley! and add your name to the list, which includes:Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink: Women for PeaceDr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, board member for the National Whistleblower CenterDaniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers whistle blowerKathleen Gilberd, co-chair of the Military Law Task Force of the National Lawyers GuildRay McGovern, former CIA analyst and activistMichael Moore...
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published on Thursday, October 21, 2010 by The Independent/UK NATO Surge on Taliban Stronghold Drives Civilians into the Line of Fire As troops step up their attack on the militants' Kandahar heartland, Julius Cavendish meets the ordinary people caught on the frontline by Julius Cavendish The first eyewitness accounts of NATO's assault on the final Taliban sanctuary threatening Kandahar City...
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“Bringing a race, class, and gender perspective to issues of war and peace.”Today War Times/Tiempo de Guerras launches our new website. In the summer of 2010, about a dozen new writers joined War Times, and we’re using our new site to bring you their voices. The site will offer some familiar features - and some new ones: * Month in Review (analysis of the previous month’s developments...
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Published on Thursday, October 14, 2010 by The Guardian/UK WikiLeaks says Funding Has Been Blocked After Government Blacklisting Founder Julian Assange hits out at decision by Moneybookers, which collects the whistleblowing website's donations by David Leigh and Rob Evans The whistleblowing group WikiLeaks claims that it has had its funding blocked and that it is the victim of financial...
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10.15.10 - 11:58 AM "Learned Helplessness" and How Much Money You Can Make From It by Abby Zimet A psychologist whose research helped shape the CIA's torture of terrorism suspects has been granted a $31-million no-bid military contract to provide "resilience training" to US soldiers, Salon.com reports. Martin Seligman of the University of Pennsylvania is most famous for experiments in the 1960s...
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While the article describes research showing the connection between suicide bombing and occupation in places occupied by theUS, there is no reason to imagine that suicide bombings elsewhere (for example: In Israel/Palestine) aren't deployed for identical reasons.For many of us this is hardly in the "breaking news" category. It might, however, be news for Islam/Arab haters, and there are...
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BioReese Erlich is a best-selling book author and freelance journalist who writes regularly for the Dallas Morning News, Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Radio and National Public Radio. He has won numerous journalism awards, including the prestigious Peabody (shared with others). He is the author of several books, and is currently touring across the country promoting his most recent one called...
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Rethink Afghanistan is a ground-breaking, full-length documentary focusing on the key issues surrounding this war. By releasing this film in parts for free online, we are able to stay on top of news of the war as it continues to unfold. We strive for more discussion among experts on Afghanistan, like the debates seen below released in conjunction with our documentary campaign. Share...
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The shocking rates of infant mortality and cancer in Iraqi city raise new questions about battle By Patrick Cockburnhttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/toxic-legacy-of-us-assault-on-fallujah-worse-than-hiroshima-2034065.html Children in Fallujah who suffer from birth defects which are thought to be linked to weapons used in attacks on the city by US Marines...
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REYKJAVIK — Iceland is becoming an offshore safe haven for information, an insider with whistleblower website WikiLeaks said Friday.Iceland is becoming an offshore safe haven for information, an insider with whistleblower website WikiLeaks said Friday.Iceland's parliament, the Altingi, voted Tuesday to task government with finding ways to increase information freedom and to provide stronger...
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June 12th, 2010 11:41 AMFROM MIchael Moore.comVIDEO: Daniel Ellsberg fears a US hit on Wikileaks founder Julian Assange By Muriel Kane / Raw Story Daniel Ellsberg, who gained fame when he leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971 in hopes of ending the Vietnam War, told MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan on Friday that he not only sees a parallel between himself and the person who recently...
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