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Senior Bush Figures Could be Prosecuted for Torture, says Obama
By Ewan MacAskill and Robert Booth
He said his attorney general, Eric Holder, was conducting an investigation and the decision rested with him.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22469.htm
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Publish and Be Damned, Mr Cheney
By Philippe Sands
The acts you authorised constitute torture, with all the consequences of criminality that follows. Bring on that honest debate, I say. Put your money where your mouth is. Call for all the evidence – all of it – to be put before the US Congress or an independent investigation.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22470.htm
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Full Text of President Ahmadinejad’s Remarks at U.N. Conference on Racism
By President Ahmadinejad
Video and Transcript. Click here to continue
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22462.htm
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Iran Explains How Obama Can Be True To His Word
By Press TV
Iran says the US has to switch sides on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to bring Obama's promise of change in foreign policy to reality.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22461.htm
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Piracy Off The Promised Land
Ramming the Dignity with Clear Lethal Intent
By David Halpin FRCS
The British have affection for Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta The Pirates of Penzance. These pirates are jolly rascals. No such description can be applied to the pirates of Somalia and even less to the Pirates of the Levant, the Israeli navy.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22466.htm
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The Secret Summit
By Fidel Castro Ruz
I had the opportunity of meeting President Carter and when he told me that “now that the Nicaraguan people had got rid of the Somoza tyranny it was time for Nicaragua to change” I said to him: No, Nicaragua does not have to change, you have to change. Nicaragua has never invaded the United States; Nicaragua has not planted mines in the U.S. harbors.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22464.htm
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The Housing Bust Takes Center-stage
By Mike Whitney
The housing market is going under and it's going to drag a good part of the broader economy along with it. Stocks, too.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22465.htm
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Stock Market Bulls Have Got it Wrong, Warns Nouriel Roubini
'Dr Doom' predicts further shocks in the market
By Nick Clark
Nouriel Roubini, the so-called "arch bear" economist who predicted the current financial crisis in 2006, added further gloom yesterday after he wrote off recent rises in global stock markets as no more than a dead cat bounce.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22467.htm
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Big Bank Profits are Bogus!
Massive public deception!
By Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D.
First, I’ll give you the big-picture facts. Then, I’ll show you how big U.S. banks are painting lipstick on some of the fattest pigs ever raised.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22468.htm
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When We Are Led to Believe a Lie
Gregg Shotwell
We are led to believe a lie when leaders degrade labour in honor of false profits.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22463.htm
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The Pulitzer-Winning Investigation That Dare Not Be Uttered on TV
By Glenn Greenwald
The New York Times' David Barstow won a richly deserved Pulitzer Prize yesterday for two articles that, despite being featured as major news stories on the front page of The Paper of Record, were completely suppressed by virtually every network and cable news show, which to this day have never informed their viewers about what Bartow uncovered.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22471.htm
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Sri Lanka rebels: 1,000 civilians die in govt raid:
Sri Lanka's Tamil rebels said Tuesday that 1,000 civilians died in a government raid on their territory that the military says freed thousands of noncombatants from the war zone. The military denied the accusation.
http://snipurl.com/ge500
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Eight Taliban militants and four civilians killed in South Waziristan:
A two-day-old ceasefire in South Waziristan collapsed on April 20 as the Taliban attacked bases of Security Forces (SFs) hours after a drone attack targeted suspected Taliban hideouts, Daily Times reported.
http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/detailed_news.asp?date1=4/21/2 009#2
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Pakistan: 20 "Taliban ultras" killed:
At least 20 militants were killed and their hideouts destroyed as Pakistan security forces backed by helicopter gunships and fighter jets pounded Taliban hideouts in a tribal region in the country’s northwest, officials said on Monday.
http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Apr212009/foreign2009042 0131396.asp
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Assembly deputy speaker killed in Pakistan:
Zaidi was killed when unidentified gunmen ambushed his official vehicle. A police official said that one person died on the spot, while the deputy speaker and another man sustained critical injuries in the attack.
http://snipurl.com/ge52e
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Pakistan says Taliban broadening control:
Head of the interior ministry Rehman Malik confirmed the Taliban is now in control of pockets of Buner - a district, which is only 100 kilometres from Islamabad.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/04/22/2549084.htm?se ction=justin
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Afghan, Coalition forces kill 7 suspect insurgents in S Afghanistan:
Afghan police backed by international troops killed seven suspect rebels including one commander in southern Afghan province of Uruzgan Tuesday morning, a statement of Interior Ministry issued here said.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-04/21/content_1122789 7.htm
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Afghan governor talking to Taliban:
The governor of Uruzgan has told Radio Netherlands Worldwide that probably less than 50 percent at most of the violence in the Afghan province can be attributed to the Taliban. Governor Asadullah Hamdam says the rest of the fighting is started by warlords, drug bar
http://snipurl.com/ge54p
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U.S. Lacks Capacity to Win Over Afghans: -
President Barack Obama and other top officials in his administration have made it clear that there can be no military solution in Afghanistan, and that the non-military efforts to win over the Afghan population will be central to its chances of success.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46578
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Durban II no-shows won't be missed:
Recently, a number of countries that are still in denial about their history of racism, namely Israel, the United States, Canada, Australia, and the Netherlands, have announced that they will be boycotting the UN anti-racism conference.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=92025§ionid=3510303
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Ahmadinejad's Webster speech canceled:
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech at a Swiss university has been canceled due to apparent pressure from pro-Israeli lobbying.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=92052§ionid=351020101
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UN racism conference adopts final declaration - Summary:
All but nine of the 192 United Nations member states adopted by consensus Tuesday a declaration at the Durban Review Conference in Geneva calling for protecting vulnerable people and fighting against racism, discrimination and intolerance.
http://snipurl.com/ge57p
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Norwegian lawyers to accuse Israeli leaders of war crimes:
Israel's former prime minister Ehud Olmert and other top officials could face legal action in Norway over the Gaza offensive after six Norwegian lawyers said Tuesday they would accuse them of war crimes.
http://snipurl.com/ge58l
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U.S. Congresswoman denies interceding in AIPAC spy case:
The New York Times, reported Monday that the National Security Agency intercepted phone calls between Harman and a supporter of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. ... She was overheard agreeing to seek favorable treatment from the Bush administration for two AIPAC lobbyists under investigation for spying. It was unclear when the wiretaps occurred.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1079922.html
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Harman-AIPAC-Gonzalez is really several scandals:
Israeli Spying in the U.S. Harman is actually the least of it.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5503297
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NU's Katz reminds Emanuel he's Jewish:
National Union chairman Ya'acov "Ketzele" Katz sent a letter to White House chief-of-staff Rahm Emanuel last week admonishing him not to forget his Jewish and Israeli origins.
http://snipurl.com/ge5bb
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Let’s skip Gaza: Pope’s PR blunder :
If the Pope arrives in Palestine he must visit Gaza or it’ll look as if he doesn’t give a damn about the human condition in the very land where Christianity was born
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/articles/39/Lets_skip_Gaza_Popes_PR_blunder.html
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US court: Ex-Israeli cabinet member cannot be sued:
A federal appeals court says a former Israeli security chief cannot be sued in the United States for 15 deaths in a Gaza City bombing.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090416/ap_on_re_us/bombing_lawsuit
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In case you missed it:
U.S. judge awards $156M to parents of American teen killed in Israel:
A U.S. jury on Wednesday ordered three Islamic charities and an alleged fund-raiser for the Palestinian terror group Hamas to pay $156 million to the parents of an American teenager shot and killed by terrorists on Israel's West Bank.
http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Diplomacy/4544.htm
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In case you missed it:
US Judge Orders Iran to Pay $25M for Family of Israeli Soldier Killed by Hamas:
A federal judge is ordering Iran to pay $25 million plus interest to the family of an Israeli soldier kidnapped and executed by Hamas in 1994.
http://snipurl.com/ge5e1
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Sri Lanka rebels vow 'no surrender':
Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels have vowed to fight on after a 24-hour government-issued ultimatum for their surrender ran out.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/04/2009421111334291436.html
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Somali piracy and American foreign policy:"
With the explosion of Somali piracy, America is reaping what it has sown. In many ways, we have nobody to blame but ourselves for the emergence of high-seas crime threatening to disrupt important lanes of trade.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/articles/39/Somali_piracy_and_American_foreign_policy.html
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Survivors tell their stories for Holocaust Remembrance Day:
Today, people around the world will mark Holocaust Remembrance Day in memory of the more than 6 million Jews and millions of others who perished in the Nazi concentration camps.
http://snipurl.com/ge5gn
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Neturei Karta protest during moment of silence:
Members of radical anti-Zionist stream hold protest in Jerusalem during moment of silence for Holocaust victims, saying 'Zionists cynically abuse the Holocaust for their own purposes'
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3704327,00.html
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A Basic History of Zionism and its Relation to Judaism:
Zionism has now assumed the all-embracing mantle of righteousness. It claims to represent and to speak for all Jews and has adopted the slogan of "my country right or wrong." The West tolerates Israel's continuous breaches of human rights--violations that it would not tolerate if perpetrated by any other country
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4549.htm
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In case you missed it:
The Holocaust Industry: Video:
Norman Finkelstein talks about his book, The Holocaust Industry, and on the on the Israel Palestine Conflict on CSpan
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19996.htm
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How many soldiers died in World War 2?:
Soviet 14,500,000 dead, Germany 2,800,000 dead, U.S.A. 406,000 dead, Britain 400,000 dead. More
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_soldiers_died_in_World_War_2
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How many Russians and people in the USSR died in World War 2?:
Most historians believe that the Soviet Union was quite literally decimated, losing a full 10% of its population which was about 17-18 million total people lost.
http://snipurl.com/ge5lk
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World War II: Combatants and Casualties (1937 - 45):
Estimates of the death toll attributable to the war for military and civilian losses have ranged upward to 60 million, with civilian losses at or more than 50 percent of that total (a stark contrast with the losses of WWI, in which such losses were no more than five percent).
http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~jobrien/reference/ob62.html
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Bolivia: Dwyer unarmed and undressed when shot:
THE Irishman gunned down in a suspected assassination plot in South America was unarmed and in his underwear when he was shot dead after being woken in a dawn raid. Dwyer was described by Bolivian authorities as a "soldier of fortune", who had been part of the Croatian Liberation Movement, an extreme right-wing paramilitary group.
http://www.tribune.ie/article/2009/apr/19/dwyer-unarmed-and-undressed-when-shot/
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Obama Open to Inquiry in Interrogation Abuses:
President Obama on Tuesday left open the door to creating a bipartisan commission that would investigate the Bush administration’s use of harsh interrogation techniques on terrorism suspects, and he did not rule out taking action against the lawyers who fashioned the legal guidelines for the interrogations.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/us/politics/22intel.html
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Obama reassures CIA no prosecutions planned:
Obama held a private meeting with CIA Director Leon Panetta and about 50 agents, assuring them once again that there will be no prosecutions or investigations directed at CIA officials.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/apr2009/tort-a21.shtml
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Spanish judge keeps Guantanamo probe alive:
A Spanish judge considering possible criminal action against six former Bush administration officials for torture at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay defied pressure to drop the case Friday
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE53G3V620090418
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Psychologists Helped Guide Interrogations: .
According to newly released Justice Department documents, the psychologist provided ideas, practical advice and even legal justification for interrogation methods that would break Abu Zubaida, physically and mentally. Extreme sleep deprivation, waterboarding, the use of insects to provoke fear -- all were deemed acceptable, in part because the psychologist said so.
http://snipurl.com/ge5py
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What?
Torture case lawyers may face jail for letter:
A former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who accused a Bay Area company of flying him to foreign torture chambers for the CIA is at the center of a bizarre new case, in which his lawyers face possible jail sentences for writing a letter that asked President Obama to disclose how brutally he was treated.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/19/BA68172JDM.DTL
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Judge to Rule on Domestic Spying:
A federal appeals court already rejected the Obama and Bush administration's bid to dismiss the case, despite government assertions the lawsuit might expose government secrets.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/04/judge-to-rule-i.html
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UK retail inflation turns negative:
Britain's annual retail price inflation rate has given its first negative reading in almost 50 years, official figures have revealed, sparking fears of deflation in the recession-hit country.
http://english.aljazeera.net/business/2009/04/200942193149946812.htm l
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Meltdown losses of '$4 trillion':
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned credit crunch losses could reach $4 trillion (£2.75tn), damaging the financial system for years to come.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8009734.stm
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Obama Proposes $100 Billion Loan for I.M.F.:-
President Barack Obama Monday proposed a $100 billion U.S. loan to the International Monetary Fund to boost the IMF's war chest and urged a bigger stake in the IMF for emerging powers like China and India.
http://snipurl.com/ge5uc
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Profits rise at Bank of America:
The bank said on Monday it earned $4.2bn in the first three months of 2009, compared to a $1.02bn profit in the same period a year ago.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/04/2009420151621739686.html
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Big banks have a big credit problem:
BofA managed to post the big profit even as it set aside more than $6 billion to cover future loan losses. The bank's loan loss reserve now stands at $30 billion -- double its year-ago level.
http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/20/news/bofa.stress.fortune/
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Goldman Sachs Shook Tens of Billions Out of Tax-Payers --
Now They're Whining All the Way to the Bank
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/137561
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