Times Online
8/31/09
James Hider and Tim Reid
Widespread and systematic fraud during the Afghan presidential elections has tarnished the legitimacy of any future government and undermined the Nato campaign there, Western and Afghan officials have admitted.
Two more British soldiers were killed yesterday and the commander of the Nato forces in Afghanistan warned President Obama that the...
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Scoop NZ
8/31/09
By Sherwood Ross
The growing use of private armies not only subjects target populations to savage warfare but makes it easier for the White House to subvert domestic public opinion and wage wars.
Americans are less inclined to oppose a war that is being fought by hired foreign mercenaries, even when their own tax dollars...
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Anti-war protesters are planning an autumn campaign against President Barack Obama’s extension of operations in Afghanistan to coincide with the eighth anniversary of the first bombing of the Taliban.
London Telegraph
By Alex Spillius
There is rising disillusion among liberals and peace activists that a president who built his campaign on his opposition to the war in...
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Report by CDC, Released Tuesday, Raises Concern About Washington’s Potential Response to the H1N1 Virus
ABC News
8/30/09
By PATRIK JONSSON
What might life be like during the kind of major swine flu pandemic predicted by the White House to hit the U.S. this fall?
The worst-case scenarios percolate on the edges of thought: bans on public gatherings, restricting...
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WSWS
8/31/09
By Patrick Martin
In an interview broadcast Sunday, former vice president Dick Cheney defended the brutal interrogations carried out at CIA secret prisons under the direction of the Bush administration and denounced the proposed investigation of a handful of CIA agents for some of the most flagrant acts of torture.
The interview itself was a demonstration...
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WW4 Report
8/29/09
A total of 15, including two police officers, were injured Aug. 27 when the village of Cocachacra, in Islay province of Peru’s southern Arequipa region, exploded into angry protest following the release of an environmental impact statement at a public hearing on the Tía María mining project proposed by the US-based Southern Copper...
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Times Online
8/31/09
By Robert Watts and Dominic O’Connell
A radical plan to raise £100 billion by privatising the motorway network has been presented to the three main political parties by NM Rothschild, the influential investment bank.
Rothschild, an architect of several privatisations, made its pitch in the weeks running up to the summer recess on July...
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The suicide bombers who killed 95 people in devastating attacks at Iraqi government ministries on August 19 had recently been released from US custody, a senior interior ministry official said on Sunday.
The London Telegraph
8/31/09
The bombings in Baghdad also wounded 600 people in what was the worst day of violence to hit the country for...
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General Still Insists Pullout ‘Moving Forward’
Anti-War.com
8/30/09
Brigadier General Heidi Brown, in charge of overseeing the US withdrawal from Iraq, insists that the pullout strategy is already underway and moving according to plans. At the same time, the details she provided seemed to confirm that the pullout remains very aspirational.
According to the general, the first troops...
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We Are Change
8/31/09
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