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Afghanistan Study Group - Survey Results of Conservatives — The following is an analysis of a poll taken of conservative voters nationwide. Drawn from a sample of randomly selected phone numbers, this poll contains 1,000 registered voters who describe their political ideology as conservative.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:How propaganda poisons the mind - and our discourse — (updated below - Update II) — Last week, on January 3, The Guardian published a scathing Op-Ed by James Richardson blaming WikiLeaks for endangering the life of Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of the democratic opposition in Zimbabwe.
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Gulet Mohamed Lawyer Calls for Investigation of FBI Conduct
Gadeir Abbas, the lawyer for Gulet Mohamed, an American Muslim teenager detained in Kuwait, has called for an investigation after FBI agents allegedly continued to question his client in Kuwaiti custody despite the teen's repeated requests for a lawyer and invocation of his right to remain silent.
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Tucson will change nothing
JANUARY 12, 2011 • 10:08 AMAmericans react with horror to the shootings, but it won't affect our culture of violence
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JANUARY 12, 2011 • 12:03 AMWhen I see the crude language my boy uses for all the world to read, it hurts me deeply
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Australia floods leave Brisbane "a ghost town"
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CIA-MOSSAD-DGSE PREPARING A COUP IN TUNISIA? The Darfur Domino effect is on a roll....
CIA-MOSSAD-DGSE PREPARING A COUP IN TUNISIA? Is Ben Ali, the latest "Saddam".... or the Algerian Bouteflika will be dumped first...? Is Morocco next...? The Darfur Domino effect is on a roll....!On 24 December 2010, an important Washington think tank (Institute for Policy Studiesa) had an article about a possible change of regime in Tunisia (Foreign Policy In Focus.):"It would do Tunisians, even (Tunisian President) Ben Ali, well to recall how many US allies different American administrations have discarded…
"The list is long and I will only mention a few: the Diem regime in the 1960s, Noriega of Panama... Marcos of the Philippines...Imperial states build networks which link economic, military and political activities into a coherent mutually reinforcing system. This task is largely performed by the various institutions of the imperial state. Thus imperial action is not always directly economic, as military action in one country or region is necessary to open or protect economic zones. Nor are all military actions decided by economic interests if the leading sector of the imperial state is decidedly militarist.
Moreover, the sequence of imperial action may vary according to the particular conditions necessary for empire building. Thus state aid may buy collaborators [ by perpetual bribes, threats and/or other covert/intelligence means - CIA/MOSSAD/MI6/DGSE/BND/ shenanigans, blackmail, honeypot, proxy and surrogate militias like the Geagea LF and the Kataeb and Future movement in Lebanon...., and the infamous White House Murder INC, in the Levant and Worldwide...., etc...]; military intervention may secure client regimes followed later by private investors. In other circumstances, the entry of private corporations may precede state intervention.
In either private or state economic and/or military led penetration, in furtherance of empire-building, the strategic purpose is to exploit the special economic and geopolitical features of the targeted country to create empire-centered networks. In the post Euro-centric colonial world, the privileged position of the US in its empire-centered policies, treaties, trade and military agreements is disguised and justified by an ideological gloss, which varies with time and circumstances. In the war to break-up Yugoslavia and establish client regimes, as in Kosovo, imperial ideology utilized humanitarian rhetoric. In the genocidal wars in the Middle East, anti-terrorism and anti-Islamic ideology is central. Against China, democratic and human rights rhetoric predominates. In Latin America, receding imperial power relies on democratic and anti-authoritarian rhetoric aimed at the democratically elected Chavez government.
The core hypocrisy at the heart of American "democracy"....
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Despite a tarnished image, the private military security industry is thriving – and will likely continue to do so for the foreseeable future. In fact, these private companies continue to expand their reach beyond security and military matters into nearly every facet of government service.A recent report from ProPublica, based on analysis of U.S. Department of Labor statistics, showed that “more private contractors than soldiers were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan in recent months,” making 2010 the “first time in history that corporate casualties have outweighed military losses on America’s battlefields.”The swelling numbers of contractor deaths could only result from the greatest foreign policy experiment in privatization in U.S. history. These numbers call for a closer look at the changing role of private force and its impact on the industry.
- Iran Sets up Special Bodyguard Team to Protect ScientistsThe Iranian Vice-President for Science and Technology said the country has formed a special team to boost security for its scientists and researchers.
- Swiss police arrest 10 LTTE activistsThe Swiss Federal Criminal Police in a nationally coordinated operation directed at Tamil individuals and members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), raided several properties and arrested ten LTTE cadres yesterday (11 Jan).
- CANADA: Loonie takes aim at $1.02 U.S.Canada's currency has gained for eight consecutive days, and now sits at a 2.5 year high against the benchmark U.S. greenback.
- Russia to build new shipyards for Mistral constructionRussia will construct new shipyards near St. Petersburg designed specifically for the building of Mistral class amphibious assault ships under a French license, a defense industry source said Wednesday.
- Tel Aviv at risk in next war, army commander saysA top Israeli military commander said Tuesday that "danger has returned to Tel Aviv."
- The Libyan foreign security agency accused Mossad and Morocco of attempting to break AlgeriaFor the first time, and officially, the Libyan External Security Agency has accused the Israeli Mossad of being behind what she described as "attempts to break the territorial unity of Algeria, Libya and Tunisia."
- BURMA: Artillery shells hit Thailand as fighting ragesHeavy fighting erupted this week between Burmese troops and the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA), who have been battling one another in eastern Karen state since November last year. The Thai News Service reported today that eleven shells had so far landed on Thai soil close to the border town of Mae Sot.
- Iraq to buy nine ships for $100 millionIraq is building its cargo ship fleet from scratch. The source said it was time the country had its maritime fleet for the import and transport of goods.
- 'Iran has infiltrated Israel's spy networks'Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi has said that the Iranian intelligence service has managed to penetrate deep into Israel's spy networks, and he also announced that 10 people linked to these networks have been arrested.
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