Obama Steers Toward Endless War With Islam
By Michael Scheuer
In just over 100 days, President Obama is on the verge of ensuring that militant Islam’s war on America will be waged for decades to come and its forces will never suffer manpower or money shortages. How did he accomplish so much in some little time? He simply behaved as all U.S. political leaders behave; that is, as an ignorant and arrogant interventionist.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22665.htm
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Why Obama Refuses To Release Torture Pictures
By Yvonne Ridley
While some Republican red necks would probably just scoff at pictures of olive skinned men being brutalised, I’m not so sure they would shrug off so easily pictures of women and young children being tortured.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22663.htm
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The Road To Guantanamo
Video
Three young British Muslims tell the story of how they came to be in US custody at Guantánamo for over two years, and discuss the Kafkaesque horrors that awaited them there, until finally they were released without charge or apology.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15880.htm
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‘Israel will have to take on Iran alone once Obama’s efforts fail’:
The official was quoted by Channel 10 as saying that Obama’s insistence on engagement with Iran would force Israel to make a “difficult decision” on the matter by the end of 2009.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1086628.html
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U.S. to continue funding Israel anti-missile system:
Israeli defense officials have recently been concerned that cuts in the U.S. defense budget, along with Pentagon unwillingness to fund a project that does not employ American workers, could harm the future of the Arrow.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1086938.html
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Netanyahu’s Washington Victory:
How Obama moved closer to the Israeli position on Iran.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4936
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U.S., Israel forming working group on Iran:
The United States and Israel are quietly forming a high-level working group to assess the progress of President Obama’s outreach to Iran and to share intelligence about the Islamic Republic’s nuclear weapons program,
http://snipurl.com/ig3ss
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Italy breaks ranks with ‘surprise’ visit to Tehran:
Franco Frattini, Italy’s foreign minister, plans to break with European Union policy of shunning high-level contact with Iran by flying to Tehran today for talks on the Islamic republic’s strategic role in the region and possible openings for direct engagement with the US.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/20ef8a7e-44d6-11de-82d6-00144feabdc0.html
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Hamas condemns Palestinian cabinet:
“This is considered to be a deliberate sabotage of the internal Palestinian dialogue and threatens the negotiations slated to take place in the future in Cairo.”
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/05/200952012820780409.html
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Most of Jerusalem’s non-Jewish children live below poverty line:
Among children, 48 percent of Jews and 74 percent of non-Jews are defined as poor.
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1086819.html
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Spain signals end to war crimes, genocide hunting:
Under pressure from foreign governments, members of Spain’s congress almost unanimously passed a resolution which, if translated into law, would end the right of Spanish judges to investigate serious crimes like genocide anywhere in the world in cases where courts in the affected country do not act.
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-39759920090520
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Judge rejects Obama view on detaining Al Qaeda supporters:
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Shame on them: Democrats Defending Pelosi:
Top Democrats said they believe that the CIA misled her in a September 2002 briefing about controversial techniques used during interrogations of alleged al-Qaeda operatives
http://snipurl.com/ig3zk
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Thousands beaten, raped in Irish reform schools:
The report found that molestation and rape were “endemic” in boys’ facilities, chiefly run by the Christian Brothers order, and supervisors pursued policies that increased the danger.
http://snipurl.com/ig40v
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Irish church knew abuse ‘endemic’:
The five-volume study concluded that church officials encouraged ritual beatings and consistently shielded their orders’ paedophiles from arrest amid a “culture of self-serving secrecy”.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8059826.stm
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Child abuse victims seek justice:
Thomas Wall, an orphan from Limerick, was sent by the criminal courts to a Christian Brothers run reform school when he was just three.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8058821.stm
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America’s poor are its most generous givers:
The generosity of poor people isn’t so much rare as rarely noticed, however. In fact, America’s poor donate more, in percentage terms, than higher-income groups do
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/226/story/68456.html
