Archive for December, 2009

Global Research 12/31/09 By F. William Engdahl The Council of Europe member states will launch an inquiry in January 2010 on the influence of the pharmaceutical companies on the global swine flu campaign, focusing especially on extent of the pharma‘s industry’s influence on WHO. The...

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Anti-War.com 12/31/09 By Jason Ditz The Afghan National Security Council has raised the stakes in the aftermath of this week’s alleged Kunar massacre, calling for NATO to hand over the responsible parties immediately to Afghan authorities. NATO continues to change its story on Tuesday morning’s...

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Raw Story/AFP 12/31/09 BAGHDAD — Two men on death row for masterminding an Al-Qaeda truck bombing that killed 88 people on June 20 were recruited in a US-run prison camp, a senior Iraqi police commander said on Thursday. Adnan Jassim Ali al-Hamdani and Hawas Falah...

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WSWS 12/31/09 By Patrick Martin Five days after the unsuccessful attempt by a Nigerian student to set off a bomb aboard a Detroit-bound passenger jet, US military and intelligence officials are said to be preparing expanded military action against targets in Yemen, the Arab country...

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BBC 12/31/09 A US federal judge has dismissed all charges against five guards from US security firm Blackwater over the killing of 17 Iraqis in 2007. The five, contracted to defend US diplomatic personnel, were accused of opening fire on a crowd in Baghdad. District...

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Wired 12/31/09 Two bloggers received home visits from Transportation Security Administration agents Tuesday after they published a new TSA directive that revises screening procedures and puts new restrictions on passengers in the wake of a recent bombing attempt by the so-called underwear bomber. Special agents...

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Information Clearing House/Al Jazeera 12/30/09 A year after Israel’s war on Gaza, the territory is still struggling to rebuild. In the weeks after the offensive, politicians from around the world visited the Strip and made promises to help. But it appears many of those pledges...

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The Examiner 12/31/09 By Thomas R. Eddlem Ben Stein published an explanation of his attack on Rep. Ron Paul of Texas on his American Spectator blog December 30. Two days before Stein had termed Rep. Paul ‘s argument against the ever-increasing U.S. intervention in Muslim...

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Prison Planet/John Pilger.com 12/31/09 By John Pilger In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell described a superstate called Oceania, whose language of war inverted lies that “passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’, ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present...

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Prison Planet/ MLive 12/31/09 By Aaron Foley Following up on a visit from FBI officials about an eyewitness account first described to MLive.com, Michigan attorney Kurt Haskell described the visit in comment sections across MLive on Wednesday. Haskell and his wife, Lori, were aboard Flight...

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