Experts See So ‘Smoking Gun’ for Iran Election Fraud
By Andrew Beatty, Agence France-Presse
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s election victory is disbelieved by hundreds of thousands of Iranians who have poured onto Tehran’s streets in protest, but experts say hard evidence of vote rigging is elusive.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22862.htm
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Does U.S. Poll Rule Out Fraud in Iran?
Video
Western media, along with thousands of Iranians protesting around the world, have formed a rough consensus over the six days since Iran’s Presidential Election that Ahmadinejad’s victory was the result of widespread fraud. However, a recent Op-Ed in the Washington Post references a rare public opinion poll in suggesting that the election may indeed have been fair.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22858.htm
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Preparing the Battlefield
The Bush Administration steps up its secret moves against Iran.
By Seymour M. Hersh
Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. These operations, for which the President sought up to four hundred million dollars, were described in a Presidential Finding signed by Bush, and are designed to destabilize the country’s religious leadership.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20203.htm
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‘The Responsible Left’: Funding Obama’s Expanding Wars
By Jeremy Scahill
The cowardly Democrats who checked their spines at the door to Congress when they voted Tuesday try to defend their flip-flop on war funding. Frankly, it is embarrassing.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22860.htm
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New Film Chronicles Civilian Slaughter In Afghanistan
Video
The footage you are about to see is poignant, heart-wrenching, and often a direct result of U.S. foreign policy. – Warning – Viewer discreation advised.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22859.htm
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Obama Whitewashes US Foreign Policy
By Teo Ballve
President Obama is trying to whitewash the history of U.S. foreign policy. In two major speeches in the last month, he has spun a fairy tale.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22857.htm
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Massacre in the Amazon:
The U.S.-Peru Free Trade Agreement Sparks a Battle Over Land and Resources
By Raúl Zibechi
On June 5, World Environment Day, Amazon Indians were massacred by the government of Alan Garcia in the latest chapter of a long war to take over common lands-a war unleashed by the signing of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Peru and the United States.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22861.htm
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Nicaragua – A Nations Right To Survive
A Documentary Film By John Pilger
John Pilger’s 1983 film about the small nation of Nicaragua and its right to survive investigates the corruption in Central America. In 1979, the Sandinistas won a popular revolution in Nicaragua, putting an end to decades of the corrupt US-backed Somoza dictatorship. They based their reformist ideology on that of the English Co-operative Movement, but was to prove too ‘radical’ for the Reagan administration.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15435.htm
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The Panama Deception
Video Documentary
This film shows how the U.S. attacked Panama and killed 3 or 4 thousand people in an invasion that the rest of the world was against. The Panama Deception uncovers the real reasons for this internationally condemned attack, presenting a view of the invasion which widely differs from that portrayed by the U.S. media and exposes how the U.S. government and the mainstream media suppressed information about this foreign policy disaster.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4078.htm
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The Secret History of the American Empire
The Truth About Global Corruption
Video – John Perkins, author of Confessions of An Economic Hit Man.
Perkins zeroes in on hot spots around the world such as Venezuela, Tibet, Iraq, Israel, Vietnam and others and exposes the network of events in each of these countries that have contributed to the creation of the American Empire and international corruption in “The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth About Global Corruption”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21000.htm
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Air Force Planning New Drone Fleet For Pakistan :
Among the new drones (which are all very small) are the Suburb Warrior (loaded with four or five mini missiles for semi-urban environments), the Sniper targeting system (“that can lock on to multiple targets, allowing a single drone pilot to coordinate the attacks of a squadron of robots”), and a backup fleet of flying buggies that act as suicide-bomber snipers.
http://www.esquire.com/the-side/feature/new-air-force-drones-in-pakistan-061709
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Afghan government asks US military to stop bombing civilian areas:
Airstrikes in Afghanistan have caused many civilian casualties, resulting in an official request by the Afghan government to the US military to stop air and ground strikes within civilian populations.
http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/509657/cs/1/
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Taliban leaders report progress in secret talks with the US and Afghanistan: Report:
Two Taliban leaders – who held high-ranking positions in the now-deposed Taliban government and who are directly involved in the talks – say they’ve recently established a framework of an agreement through the shuttle negotiations. They say the process has included contact with the spiritual leader of the Taliban, Mullah Mohammad Omar.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/afghanistan/090617/taliban-talks
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U.S.: McChrystal Looks to Spin Afghan Civilian Deaths Problem:
There are growing indications that his command is preparing to deal with the issue primarily by seeking to shift the blame to the Taliban through more and better propaganda operations and by using more high-tech drone intelligence aircraft to increase battlefield surveillance rather than by curbing the main direct cause of civilian casualties.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=47261
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Brown forced into climbdown over ‘secret’ Iraq War inquiry:
Gordon Brown has been forced into a humiliating climbdown over the Iraq War inquiry after it was revealed some parts may be held in public.
http://snipurl.com/kdu16
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Pictures from the protests in Iran:
Warning – Images should only be viewed by a mature audience
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fhashemi/sets/72157619758530748/show/
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ElBaradei lashes out at Israel over bombed site in Syria:
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed ElBaradei clashed with Israel Thursday over the country’s lack of cooperation in uncovering the truth about an alleged nuclear reactor in Syria.
http://snipurl.com/kdu5g
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IAEA chief, Israel lock horns over Syria:
“When Israel took it upon itself to destroy a facility, what was claimed to be a nuclear facility, without giving the agency the opportunity to verify that … this was not only making it almost impossible for us to establish the facts, but it was a clear violation of international law,” he said.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i8l9o8EhmAEbE6XOfclVwEAhoG3g
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Lieberman to Clinton: Israel won’t freeze settlements:
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday that Israel could not accept the Obama administration’s demand to “completely” halt activity in West Bank settlements.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1093701.html
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Israel is losing the PR war so badly that even evangelical support is eroding:
The war that Israel keeps losing is the war of world opinion, the war for individual hearts and minds. Consider recent stumbles.
http://snipurl.com/kdu76
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India blocked NKorean plane at US request:
US Lawmaker: India at the request of the United States had blocked its air space to a North Korean plane allegedly delivering illicit cargo to Iran last year forcing it to turn back,” a US lawmaker has said.
http://snipurl.com/kdu8a
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Demonizing N. Korea:
N Korea ‘chemical weapons a threat’:
North Korea has several thousand tonnes of chemical weapons that can be used in a rapid missile strike against the South, a report released by the International Crisis Group (ICG) has said.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/06/20096187507916875.html
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Senate OKs block of alleged abuse photos:
The Senate passed by unanimous consent Wednesday a bill that would prevent the release of controversial photos of alleged U.S. abuse of prisoners and detainees.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/17/detainee.photos/
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US to prosecute about 60 Guantanamo detainees: Holder:
Attorney General Eric Holder told US senators on Wednesday that fewer than 60 of the 230 detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison could face eventual prosecution while the rest would be cleared for release.
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_to_prosecute_about_60_Guantanamo_06172009.html
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US lawmakers vote to restrict Guantanamo transfers:
The US House of Representatives Armed Services Committee voted Wednesday to restrict the transfer to the United States of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay facility for suspected terrorists.
http://snipurl.com/kdub0
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U.S.: Report Blasts Terror Financing Laws and Investigations:
Muslim charities in the United States are subject to unfair treatment by the government under terrorism financing laws, according to a new report which says the effect has been a chill on charitable giving that violates Muslims’ right to freely practice an important requirement of their religion.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=47252
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Web beats TV, radio as preferred news source:
More than half of the people questioned in the Zogby Interactive survey said they would select the Internet if they had to choose only one source of news, followed by 21 percent for television and 10 percent for both newspapers and radio.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31410117/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/
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Dollar drops on reserve currency doubts:
The dollar fell against the euro and yen on Wednesday after major emerging economies cast doubt on its long-term future as the world’s main reserve currency, dealers said.
http://snipurl.com/kdud9
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Suitcase With $134 Billion Puts Dollar on Edge: William Pesek: -
It’s a plot better suited for a John Le Carre novel. Two Japanese men are detained in Italy after allegedly attempting to take $134 billion worth of U.S. bonds over the border into Switzerland. Details are maddeningly sketchy, so naturally the global rumor mill is kicking into high gear.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=a62_boqkurbI
