" As if the Taliban, car bombs, roadside bombs, leftover Soviet land mines, political unrest and errant NATO air attacks weren't enough, Afghans are facing a new killer: the H1N1 flu pandemic. The government has declared a state of...
" "Subject: What HappenedSince I don't know when I'll sleep (it's 4 am now) I'll write what happened (the abbreviated version.....the long one is already part of the investigation with more to come). I'll not write about any part of the investigation that...
"General George Casey Jr., the Army chief of staff, said on Sunday that he was concerned that speculation about the religious beliefs of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, accused of killing 12 fellow soldiers and one civilian and wounding dozens of others in a shooting rampage at Fort...
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Ukrainian News Agency "Fraza" reported that, according to informed sources, "it has been confirmed 100 % Pneumonic Plague in Ukraine". The Agency asserts that "the head physician of the medical institutions has sent out an informal disposal - not to sow panic, to...
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Major Nidal Malik Hasan worshipped at a mosque led by a radical imam said to be a "spiritual adviser" to three of the hijackers who attacked America on Sept 11, 2001. The American media is not touching this story with a ten foot pole. Radical Islam and its hatred of the West...
Handing President Obama a hard-fought victory, lawmakers voted to approve a $1.1 trillion, 10-year-plan that Democrats said said could be their defining social policy achievement."After a daylong clash with Republicans over what has been a Democratic goal for decades,...
U.N. Affirms Israeli-Hamas War Crimes Report By Thalif Deen The report, which was favourably voted by the 47-member Human Rights Council in Geneva last month, received overwhelming support Thursday in the 192-member General Assembly. The vote was 114 in favour and 18...
"The US House of Representatives has condemned the UN Goldstone Report by an overwhelming majority, calling the report “one-sided and distorted”. The representatives voted 344 to 36 to endorse a symbolic resolution to condemn the report which was highly critical of...
"The national unemployment rate still hasn't quite edged past 10%. But some places blew past this benchmark ages ago. In some places, it's not a matter of "if" a full-blown depression could emerge. Some cities you can probably guess (Detroit), but others (Hollywood, and...
"Suicide Toll Fuels Worry That Army Is Strained Photo from Welt OnlineFrom The Wall Street Journal:Sixteen American soldiers killed themselves in October in the U.S. and on duty overseas, an unusually high monthly toll that is fueling concerns about the mental health of...
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November 3, 2009 A Long-Term Disaster for Obama and the US "The Delegitimization of Karzai By PATRICK COCKBURN The election in Afghanistan has turned into a disaster for all who promoted it. Hamid Karzai has been declared re-elected as president of the...
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There are no green shoots in the misery indicators:It is a sobering fact that in 2009, there will be as many people filing for bankruptcy as those filing for a divorce. We are on track to seeing an average of nearly 5,900 bankruptcy filings a day for 2009. While...
South Korea and the United States have devised a joint action plan in case the North Korean regime collapses or other internal emergency situations in the communist North arise, a senior defense official said Sunday.The so-called ``Operational Plan (OPLAN) 5029,'' calls for...
In view of the forthcoming Congressional vote on the Goldstone Report, this Letter from Gaza depicts life in Gaza during the Israeli occupation." A young man looks for his mother’s grave in a cemetery in Beit Lehia that was destroyed by tanks in January. Israel’s...
Here we go again: "The [plutonium] reprocessing factory appears to have been restored to its earlier conditions, a high-level South Korean defense official told the Yonhap News Agency. Satellite images of the factory showed a regular stream of workers moving to and from the...