Archive for December 3rd, 2009

WSWS 12/3/09 By Patrick Martin The July, 2011 date for beginning a withdrawal of US forces in Afghanistan, announced by President Obama in his speech to West Point military cadets Tuesday night, is neither irreversible nor even a deadline, top US national security officials said...

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OpEd News 2/3/09 Washington D.C. Following a speech on the Floor of the House of Representative, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement: “Why are we still in Afghanistan? Al-Qaeda has been routed. Our occupation fuels a Taliban insurgency. The more troops we...

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Information Clearing House 12/2/09 By Shamus Cook Tuesday’s announcement that President Obama will send an additional 30,000 soldiers to Afghanistan — while begging his foreign allies to send an extra 10,000 — will have dramatic effects throughout the American and world society.  The hope that...

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The Independent 12/3/09 By Mark Hughes and Jerome Taylor Police have been accused of misusing powers granted under anti-terror legislation after a series of incidents, ranging from the innocuous to the bizarre, in which photographers were questioned by officers for taking innocent pictures of tourist...

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The Times Online 12/3/09 By Philippe Naughton, and Zahid Hussain The Prime Minister of Pakistan today slapped down a suggestion from Gordon Brown that his country should do more to hunt down Osama bin Laden, insisting on a visit to Downing Street that the al-Qaeda...

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JSOnline 12/3/09 A study released Wednesday which found that nine of 10 babies tested were born with bisphenol A in their systems has renewed calls for the chemical to be banned. In the study commissioned by the Environmental Working Group, scientists found the chemical in...

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UK Daily Mail 12/2/09 By Fiona Macrae The scientist at the heart of the climate change email scandal was today interviewed by police about the scandal. Two plain clothes officers arrived in an unmarked car in the afternoon and took Professor Phil Jones to Norfolk...

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New York Times 12/3/09 By EDMUND L. ANDREWS WASHINGTON — Senator Bernard Sanders of Vermont said on Wednesday that he would try to block the Senate from confirming Ben S. Bernanke to a second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve. The move is unlikely...

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Vanity Fair 12/2/09 By Adam Ciralsky   Erik Prince, recently outed as a participant in a C.I.A. assassination program, has gained notoriety as head of the military-contracting juggernaut Blackwater, a company dogged by a grand-jury investigation, bribery accusations, and the voluntary-manslaughter trial of five ex-employees,...

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