Asked what difference the latest troop surge in Afghanistan will make, the 74-year-old former deputy defense minister says, "I can see only one: Obama will be more often going to the airport to pay his last respects to the soldiers killed in Afghanistan." "That's the only difference that I can see, whatever the size of the task force." Afghanistan will never be pacified.
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Mini-documentary/informative music video about the School of the Americas (WHINSEC). Also the official music video to the song "God Bless You, Archbishop" about Oscar Romero by raymondale and the family band. Song courtesy of raymondale and the family band from the album Consider the Birds, 2009.
Story: boingboing.net The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama's administration refused to disclose due to "national security" concerns, has leaked. It's bad. It says: * That ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be impossible to run a service like Flickr or YouTube or Blogger, since hiring enough lawyers to ensure that the mountain of material uploaded every ...
The Federal Reserve balance sheet expanded to more than $2 trillion, along with implied and explicit backstops to Wall Street firms that could cost even more. Who received the money? Against what collateral? On what terms and conditions? The only way to find out is through a complete audit of the Federal Reserve. Ron Paul Alan Grayson
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Erik Prince, the boss the CIA security firm formally known as Blackwater, claims he has been "thrown under the bus" and betrayed after leading a double life for the CIA. CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozier reports from Washington, DC
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Erik Prince which says he was a CIA asset for the past six years, before, he claims, he "was thrown under the bus." But the truth about Prince may be orders of magnitude stranger than fiction. For the past six years, he appears to have led an astonishing double life. Publicly, he has served as Blackwaters CEO and chairman. Privately, and secretly, he has been doing the CIAs bidding, helping to craft, fund, and execute operations ranging from inserting personnel into denied areas—places US ...
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Violence erupted in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday when a Palestinian man allegedly entered a petrol station at the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba in the occupied West Bank and stabbed two settlers, causing minor injuries. But that was not the end of the story. According to the Israeli army, the Palestinian was then shot by a soldier, after which a car, apparently driven by a settler, ran over the wounded Palestinian, twice, with Israeli soldiers all around. The soldiers didn't seem ...
