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Dictator Castro Calls Obama Opposition Racist     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   Reuters August 26, 2009 HAVANA (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is trying to make positive changes in the United ...   China’s police-state     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   John Chan | The Chinese regime’s ongoing police-military suppression of unrest in the north-western province of ...   Drone Strikes Kill 45 in Pakistan     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   By VOA News 08 July 2009 Suspected U.S. drones have launched two missile attacks on Taliban targets in ...   Robert McNamara deceived LBJ on Gulf of Tonkin, documents show     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   By Gareth Porter Official government documents reveal new side of defense secretary’s legacy Robert S. McNamara, ...   CIA rehired, then fired, contractors involved in torture     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   John Byrne The Raw Story June 15, 2009 Weeks after President Barack Obama took office, the Central Intelligence Agency ...   ACLU hits Obama hard over torture controversies     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   The American Civil Liberties Union had strong words on Friday for the Obama administration’s efforts to block the ...   Military accepting neo-Nazis, white supremacists, probe finds     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   The US military has effectively adopted a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy concerning white supremacists and ...   Fidel Castro’s son tricked in Internet love sting     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   A man posing as a woman carried out an eight-month Internet flirtation with Fidel Castro's son -- and found out the ...   Cheney almost wishing US was attacked, Panetta says     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   By Daniel Tencer Dick Cheney’s attitude towards the Obama administration’s national security policies suggests the ...   Obama administration supports Saudi immunity in 9/11 lawsuit     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   Brief seeking to deny Americans access to court remedies for attack Editor's Note: The following report is excerpted ...   Unreleased abuse photos depict rape, sexual abuse: report     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   By Raw Story Published: May 27, 2009 Updated 16 hours ago Unreleased photographs of alleged abuse by U.S. military ...   Conservative radio host who got waterboarded admits technique may produce bogus intelligence     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   By David Edwards and John Byrne Published: May 27, 2009 Updated 7 hours ago The conservative Chicago radio jock whose ...   Brit state recruits an army of snoopers with police-style powers     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   James Slack and Matthew Hickley Mail Online May 26, 2009 A growing army of private security guards and town hall ...   Billionaire: Elite Want Two-Thirds Of The “Dumb People” Wiped Off The Planet     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Wednesday, May 27, 2009 Billionaire entrepreneur Kevin Trudeau, who has been ...   British Councils Hire Snoops as Young as Seven to Spy on Neighbors     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   Lucy Ballinger Mail Online May 18, 2009 Children as young as seven are being recruited by councils to act as ...   Bilderberg 2009 Attendee List     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   Infowars May 18, 2009 Dutch Queen Beatrix, Queen Sofia of Spain Prince Constantijn Belgian Prince Philip Ntavinion ...   Girl allegedly finds condom in ‘Happy Meal’     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   Swiss cops investigate claim 7-year-old girl found condom in French fries FRIBOURG, Switzerland - Swiss police said ...   Torture Was Used to Try to Link Saddam with 9/11     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   By Marjorie Cohn When I testified last year before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, ...   Member of UAE royal family accused of torturing at least 25     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   Sheikh Issa bin Zayed al-Nahyan, a member of the royal family in the United Arab Emirates, is under investigation ...   WHO Says Virus Will Return With “Vengeance” in Months Ahead     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   Andrew Jack Financial Times May 3, 2009 The head of the World Health Organisation hit back at critics who have accused ...   4th Grader asks Rice About Torture - Bullshit Ensues     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   Asked by a fourth grader about the Bush administration’s torture techniques, former Secretary of State Condoleezza ...   World-renowned pianist declares he will not return to U.S.     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   Krystian Zimerman, one of the world’s most well-regarded concert pianists, said he will not return to the United ...   Marines Prepare for War in an Afghan Village in North Carolina     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. —  Afghan guards armed with AK-47s keep watch just outside as a village elder sits in a room ...   Major General Smedley Butler, USMC.     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM     Obama’s intel director: Torture helpful     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   WASHINGTON – President Obama’s national intelligence director told colleagues in a private memo last week that the ...   Cheney pushed torture techniques to find Iraq, Qaeda tie: report     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   At the urging of Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the Bush administration used torture ...   Noonan: Torture memos should have remained one of life’s mysteries     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   On Monday, Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart poked fun at how conservative politicians and pundits are reacting to the ...   Cheney: ‘I don’t think we’ve got much to apologize for’     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   By David Edwards Published: April 21, 2009 Updated 5 hours ago Former Vice President Cheney continued his attack on ...   US vying to ‘hand-pick’ Afghan president     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   Washington is using its political clout to influence the outcome of the upcoming presidential elections in Afghanistan, ...   Obama’s New World Order     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   By Stephen Lendman 10 April, 2009 Countercurrents.org This article addresses Washington's financial coup d'etat in the ...   Former Obama Advisor, CFR VP Says 100,000 Troops, 10 More Years Needed in Afghanistan     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   The End Run April 10, 2009 On the evening of March 19, 2009, Lawrence Korb spoke at the University of Pittsburgh (video ...   Obama’s Neoliberals: Selling His Afghan War One Report at a Time     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   Why is the liberal Center for American Progress aligning with former foes? Reading the Center for American Progress’ ...   Police Brutality: Ian Tomlinson WAS attacked by the Police BEFORE his death     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM     Movie: The Obama Deception     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   Alex Jones - The Obama Deception   Detainees’ accounts confirm White House authorized torture     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   David Edwards and Muriel Kane Published: Wednesday March 18, 2009 ACLU renews call for special prosecutor A leaked ...   Australia Censors Wikileaks Page     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   Australia blacklisted a webpage on Monday from the whistle-blowing site Wikileaks that contains an index of URLs ...   U.S. Weighs Taliban Strike Into Pakistan     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   By DAVID E. SANGER and ERIC SCHMITT Published: March 17, 2009 WASHINGTON — President Obama and his national ...   The Size of Derivatives Bubble = $190K Per Person on Planet     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   Tom Foremski Silicon Valley Watcher March 17, 2009 More must read financial analysis from DK Matai, Chairman of the ...   IMF poised to print billions of dollars     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   Edmund Conway The Telegraph March 17, 2009 Alistair Darling and senior figures in the US Treasury have been ...   Proposal at U.N. to criminalize ‘defamation of Islam’     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   UN Watch March 13, 2009 Geneva, March 11, 2009 — A new U.N. resolution circulated today by Islamic states would ...   US warships head for South China Sea after standoff     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   Tim Reid Times Online March 13, 2009 A potential conflict was brewing last night in the South China Sea after ...   Israeli soldier shot American activist in face with tear gas can     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   David Edwards and Stephen C. Webster Published: Saturday March 14, 2009 An American activist who participated in a ...   It’s official: Red Cross report says Bush Administration tortured prisoners     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   John Byrne Published: Monday March 16, 2009 Graphic report describes inhumane tactics US interrogators attached ...   Iran has no weapons-grade uranium, Congress told     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   Iran lacks weapons-grade highly enriched uranium and has not yet made a decision on whether to produce any, US ...   Pentagon knowingly exposed troops to cancer-causing chemicals, document shows     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   John Byrne Published: Tuesday March 10, 2009 A newly leaked military document appears to show the Pentagon knowingly ...   Ron Paul: “The end of the war is not near”     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM     ‘Accidental’ Contamination Of Vaccine With Live Avian Flu Virus Virtually Impossible     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Thursday, March 5, 2009 Czech newspapers are questioning if the shocking ...   Vaccines as Biological Weapons? Live Avian Flu Virus Placed in Baxter Vaccine Materials Sent to 18 Countries     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   Mike Adams Natural News March 5, 2009 There’s a popular medical thriller novel in which a global pandemic is ...   Military may patrol bar zone in Canada     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   Gail Swainson Toronto Star March 4, 2009 BARRIE – City police and Camp Borden officers are discussing using joint ...   Australian police will have power to secretly search homes     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   Simon Benson The Daily Telegraph March 5, 2009 Police will be allowed to secretly search suspects’ homes and ...   Dobbs: Obama setting up New World Order     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   Disclose.tv March 4, 2009   Ron Paul: We killed a million Iraqis     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   David Edwards and Muriel Kane Raw Story February 28, 2009 The conservatives attending this week’s Conservative ...   CIA made Rolling Stone satire into dirty bomb plot: report     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   John Byrne Published: Monday February 9, 2009 'How to Build an H-Bomb' was a joke, but apparently helped buttress CIA ...   World greets Obama with jubilation and caution     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   The world on Tuesday embraced the Barack Obama era but the leaders that the new US president will have to deal with ...   Obama: Gitmo Likely Won’t Close Soon     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   MARY BRUCE ABC News January 12, 2009 President-elect Barack Obama said this weekend that he does not expect to close ...   Revealed: US spends more than $52 billion a year on nukes     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   John Byrne Published: Monday January 12, 2009 The United States spends more than $52 billion a year maintaining, ...   White House: Increase in terror attacks since 9/11 a success     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   Eric Brewer Published: Saturday January 10, 2009 One of the many sad ironies of the Bush era that is rapidly and ...   Israeli military abducting as many Gaza youth as possible for information     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   Nablus / Amin Abu Wardeh – Hundreds of Palestinians have become the captives of Israeli forces during the current ...   Gaza officials: Massive sewage flood imminent     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   IMEMC News January 10, 2009 Due to the ongoing Israeli invasion of Gaza, nearly 700,000 Palestinians have gone without ...   Channel 4 UK Report From Gaza     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   hannel 4 January 9, 2009 Meet the children left to die among the bodies of their parents and families.   Obama Taps Neocons to Run Middle East Policy     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   Kurt Nimmo Infowars January 10, 2009 On January 8, the Jewish Telegraph Agency reported Obama has decided to add two ...   CBS: KBR knowingly exposed troops to toxic dust     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   David Edwards and Muriel Kane Raw Story December 24, 2008 A CBS News investigation has obtained evidence that a ...   Ex-gitmo guard who saw ‘torture’ calls co-workers ‘psychotic’     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   Jeremy Gantz Published: Saturday January 10, 2009 As the Guantanamo Bay detention center reached its seventh birthday ...   Ron Paul: Gaza crisis is blowback for past US interventions     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   David Edwards and Muriel Kane Published: Friday January 9, 2009 Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) spoke on Friday in opposition to ...   Obama names nation’s new spymasters, vows no torture     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   US president-elect Barack Obama Friday nominated two Washington heavyweights to key intelligence positions, vowing to ...   Ron Paul: Gaza “a Concentration Camp”     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM     Obama Appears Ready to End Embargo on Cuba     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   By Richard Walker Barack Hussein Obama may take a major step toward rapprochement with Cuba, setting in motion a ...   Red Cross Reports Grisly Find in Gaza     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   Israel Accused of Blocking Aid to Wounded By Craig Whitlock Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, January 8, 2009; ...   Kissinger: Obama’s ‘task’ is to help create a ‘new world order’     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   President Nixon's Secretary of State, the aging Henry Kissinger, recently told CNBC that he believes the current world ...   Norwegian doctor: Israel intentionally targeting civilians     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   David Edwards and Stephen C. Webster Published: Monday January 5, 2009 Doctor estimates 2,000 - 2,500 civilian ...   Israel rains fire on Gaza with phosphorus shells     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   Israel is believed to be using controversial white phosphorus shells to screen its assault on the heavily populated ...   Corsi detention orchestrated by Obama’s political friend     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   Investigative reporter held in Kenya while reviewing president-elect's links Posted: December 20, 2008 12:30 am ...   Kenyan government imposes gag order on Obama family     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   No media contact: 'We are doing this because we want to ensure better flow of information' Posted: December 20, ...   Germany Mulls Taking in Guantanamo Inmates When Camp Closes     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   By Patrick Donahue Dec. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Germany is considering taking in inmates from Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to ...   Iraq shoe-thrower to go on trial amid new torture claims     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   The Iraqi journalist thrust to instant fame when he threw his shoes at US President George W. Bush will go on trial ...   Cheney: 33 detainees suffered ‘enhanced interrogation’     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   Nick Juliano Published: Monday December 22, 2008 Continuing what some might call his his Torture Defense Tour '08, ...   35 Iraqi officials arrested, accused of working to overthrow government     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   Four generals are among 35 Iraqi officials arrested over the past three days, accused of trying to reconstitute Saddam ...   ‘War on terror’ a generational conflict, Bush says     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   The United States' "war on terror" will continue for many years to come, President George W. Bush said Wednesday in a ...   Iraqi journalist ’sorry for shoe-throwing’     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   The Iraqi journalist arrested for throwing his shoes at US President George W. Bush has written to Iraqi Prime Minister ...   Bush and the Shoe: Full Uncut Video     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   Infowars December 16, 2008 As Bush makes a crude joke about a “size 10 shoe,” Muntader al-Zaidi can be heard ...   Coverup of Afghan mass grave?     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   Press TV December 17, 2008 Human rights groups have called on US-led forces to secure a mass grave in northern ...   Report: Mexico More Dangerous Than Iraq     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   The escalating drug war in Mexico has now made America’s southern neighbor a more dangerous place than Iraq, ...   Gates Warns Against ‘Testing’ Obama     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   ELISABETH BUMILLER NY Times Saturday, Dec 13, 2008 Flashback: What Will Obama’s “International Crisis” ...   Cheney admits authorizing detainee’s torture     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   David Edwards and Stephen C. Webster Published: Monday December 15, 2008 Outgoing VP says Guantanamo prison should stay ...   Bush’s shoe attacker has broken arm, ribs: brother     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   The Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at US President George W. Bush has a broken arm and ribs after being struck ...   Iraqi group files 200 lawsuits against Rumsfeld, US security firms for torture     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   Agence France-Presse Published: Monday December 15, 2008 AMMAN, Dec 15, 2008 (AFP) - A Jordan-based Iraqi rights group ...   Greek rioters use lasers against police as violence over boy’s death continues into second week     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 1:36 PM on 15th December 2008 Protesters in Athens targeted police officers ...   World’s first refrigerated BEACH to be built next to luxury hotel in Dubai     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 4:26 PM on 15th December 2008 The world's first refrigerated beach is to be ...   Arab world hails shoe attack as Bush’s farewell gift     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   to the unpopular US president. Colleagues of Muntazer al-Zaidi, who works for independent Iraqi television station ...   Shoes thrown at Bush on Iraq trip     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   Advertisement President Bush ducks as the shoes are thrown A surprise visit by US President George Bush to Iraq ...   Man’s Suicide to be Broadcast on British TV     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   Craig Ewert THESE shocking pictures reveal the moment a man kills himself at a suicide clinic in Switzerland. The ...   In Iraq, KBR Partner Confines 1,000 Workers in Windowless Warehouses     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   KBR, the defense services giant, and its subcontractors have been repeatedly accused of using slave labor in Iraq. But ...   Terrorism That’s Personal     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   Nicholas D. Kristof/The New York Times Acid attacks and wife burnings are common in parts of Asia because the victims ...   UK Syndrome: ID cards are not voluntary     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   When the Government introduced its ID card legislation several years ago, it made one thing clear. Even though it would ...   Lawyers call for international court for the environment     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   A former chairman of the Bar Council is calling for an international court for the environment to punish states that ...   Media Forced To Backtrack On Al-Qaeda Link To Mumbai Attacks     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Friday, November 28, 2008 After brazenly declaring that the Mumbai attacks were ...   Bush pleased with Iraq war outcome     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   US President George W Bush believes the Iraq war has been successful and is “very pleased” with what is happening ...   Afghanistan demands ‘timeline’ for end of military intervention     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   President Hamid Karzai demanded on Tuesday at a meeting with a UN Security Council team that the international ...   Icelanders Attack Police Station as Bankster Plan Unfolds     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   Kurt Nimmo Infowars November 25, 2008 Icelanders attack police headquaters in Reykjavik. In ...   U.S. eyes “surge” of over 20,000 for Afghanistan     07/30/2010 | 03:26 AM   By David Morgan The Pentagon is considering a plan to send more than 20,000 troops to Afghanistan over the next 12 to ...