Our Convoy to Gaza

By George Galloway – Video and Text

On July 4, the Vietnam vet Ron Kovic, myself and hundreds of US citizens will fly out from JFK to Cairo where we will form up a convoy of hundreds of vehicles carrying medical aid and head into Gaza.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22784.htm

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From The USA To Gaza

“We Have To Break That Siege”

By George Galloway – Video – Speech in Brooklyn, NY

George Galloway’s stirring call for a U.S. convoy to defy the siege of the Gaza Strip.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22785.htm

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Condoning Racism?
Jews Gone Wild:

Why Camcorders and Booze Don’t Mix

By Benjamin L. Hartman, Haaretz Correspondent

The night before Barack Obama thrilled Cairo, two cameramen strolled through downtown Jerusalem and filmed a handful of drunken American kids doing their best David Duke impressions. Forty-eight hours later, the video has gone viral, linked from a hundred political blogs, and is circling the internet at a critical velocity on a mission to humiliate the Jewish people.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22783.htm

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Russia, China Should Dump Dollar in Trade – Medvedev

By Reuters

Russia and China should consider switching to domestic currencies in bilateral trade without going to the dollar, Russia’s president Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with Kommersant daily published on Friday.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22781.htm

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Taliban will never be defeated, says Colonel Imam:

Imam has offered to find the Americans a way out and says the US must negotiate with its enemies.
http://snipurl.com/jn8ht

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The ever changing story: Anatomy of a typical US military propaganda campaign.:

One month later, after the bombings of a village in western Afghanistan that killed up wards of 150 civilians, we now get this half assed admission of culpability on the part of the US military.
http://snipurl.com/jn8k9

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Afghan Government Spent only $6 bilion out of $38 bilion donations :

Feeling sorry for the waste of money, he added that now there are no ways to prove whether any corruptions in those agencies had been involved the process
http://quqnoos.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3150&Itemid=48

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Iraq’s New Death Squad:

The Iraq Special Operations Forces (ISOF) is probably the largest special forces outfit ever built by the United States, and it is free of many of the controls that most governments employ to rein in such lethal forces
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090622/bauer

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Major problems found in war spending:

In its first report to Congress, the Wartime Contracting Commission presents a bleak assessment of how tens of billions of dollars have been spent since 2001. The 111-page report, obtained by The Associated Press, documents poor management, weak oversight, and a failure to learn from past mistakes as recurring themes in wartime contracting.
http://snipurl.com/jn8uj

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Saudi FM to U.S.: Cut off aid if Israel doesn’t end occupation:

The United States should cut off its aid to Israel if the country does not end its occupation of Arab land, Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister told Newsweek in comments published Friday.
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1090732.html

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Saudis tell Obama: Impose Mideast solution if needed:

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Sunday that he would deliver a major address on his foreign policy next week
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1090946.html

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Livni: Bibi endangers US supports for Israel:

“The government today is not prepared to advance the process and set future borders, and the feeling in the world is that all Israel is trying to do is gain time,” Livni told Army radio on Sunday.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=97337&sectionid=351020202

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UN investigator ‘shocked’ by scale of destruction in Gaza:

The head of a United Nations team investigating possible war crimes by Israel and Hamas during the Gaza war said Thursday he had been shocked by the scale of the destruction in the Palestinian areas.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1090452.html

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12 indictments filed over lynching of Jewish terrorist:

Prosecutors on Sunday filed 12 indictments in a Haifa court against Shfaram residents suspected of taking part in the 2005 lynching of Jewish terrorist Eden Natan-Zada.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1090948.html

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Iran says U.N. report shows its nuclear work peaceful:

Iran said on Saturday a new report from the United Nations nuclear watchdog showed Tehran’s nuclear program was peaceful, despite Western suspicions it is aimed at making atomic bombs.
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE5550JY20090606

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IAEA ‘impotent’: Israel:

‘The latest International Atomic Energy Agency report shows the incompetence of the IAEA in exercising full and effective control over Iran because of the country’s refusal to cooperate,’ said the Israeli Atomic Energy Agency.
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/World/Story/STIStory_387136.html

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IAEA: Full Report Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran:

Report by the Director General. PDF
http://isis-online.org/publications/iran/IAEA_Iran_Report_5June2009.pdf

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Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran:

Clinton: If Iran strikes Israel, expect retaliation:

Meanwhile, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said on Sunday that a new report on Iran by the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog shows that the global body cannot be trusted to monitor the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1090954.html

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Bush FBI sent 18 armored agents to search my house:

Wiretap whistleblower says: The Bush Administration’s FBI sent 18 agents in body armor to the home of a man who revealed details of the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping program, according to a little-noticed account of the whistleblower published Thursday.
http://snipurl.com/jn91o

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Credit card rate racket:

As Bank of England freezes interest fee at 0.5%, firms push up theirs to a record 18%
http://snipurl.com/jn92q

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Fed Intends to Hire Lobbyist in Campaign to Buttress Its Image:

The Federal Reserve intends to hire a veteran lobbyist as it seeks to counter skepticism in Congress about the central bank’s growing power over the U.S. financial system, people familiar with the matter said.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aZjQKyLci1AM&refer=us

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Treasury bloodbath soaks top fund managers: -

Investors have been blindsided by one financial catastrophe after another over the last 18 months, but throughout the tumult, the government bond market has been their friend. Until now.
http://www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSTRE55468F20090605

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Bankrupt: Bank No. 37 Closed; Bank of Lincolnwood Seized by Regulators:

Bank of Lincolnwood, Lincolnwood, Illinois, was closed today by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, Division of Banking, which appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as receiver.
http://snipurl.com/jn959

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Bankrupt: No Private-Equity Deal for Failed Silverton Bank:

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has decided to wind down Silverton Bank, the failed Atlanta “bankers’ bank,” instead of selling it to investors, a setback for the private-equity industry but not one expected to damp its hunger for troubled banks.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124419992049388685.html

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Alabama County Set to Halt Services, Shut Buildings Over Budget:

Alabama’s most populous county is preparing to stop road maintenance, close courthouses and shutter services for the elderly after a court struck down taxes that pay for about 35 percent of its budget.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=awnY4WwTlTlA