The Israeli government of Benjmain Netanyahu is seeking to deflect Washington’s demand for a total settlement freeze by complaining that it ignores secret agreements between his predecessors and the Bush administration that construction in existing Jewish settlements could continue.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22764.htm
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22764.htm
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Mr Obama: Resign Now
With Democrats Like Him, Who Needs Dictators?
By Ted Rall
Obama is useless. Worse than that, he’s dangerous. Which is why, if he has any patriotism left after the thousands of meetings he has sat through with corporate contributors, blood-sucking lobbyists and corrupt politicians, he ought to step down now–before he drags us further into the abyss.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22762.htm
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22762.htm
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US objects to UN report on military killings:
The Obama administration charged Wednesday that a U.N. investigator violated his mandate by accusing the U.S. of failing to properly investigate allegations of unlawful killings by American forces in Afghanistan and Iraq.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090603/ap_on_re_eu/un_us_military_killings
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090603/ap_on_re_eu/un_us_military_killings
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All Israeli options against Iran on table: Barak:
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak refused on Wednesday to rule out a military strike on Iran, just hours after Israel’s foreign minister said the Jewish state would not do so.
http://snipurl.com/jdca7
http://snipurl.com/jdca7
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Israeli diplomats told to take offensive in PR war against Iran:
Organizing demonstrations in front of Iranian consulates worldwide, staging mock stonings and hangings in public, and launching a massive media campaign against Iran – these are just some of the steps Israeli diplomats have been told to take in the coming weeks.
http://snipurl.com/jdcbl
http://snipurl.com/jdcbl
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War With Iran: Has It Already Begun?:
In public, when it comes to the Iranian question, President Obama is all sweet reason and kissy-face. His recent video message to the Iranian people was just what the doctor ordered. However, this public performance is severely undercut by an ongoing covert program aimed at regime-change in Tehran – or, at least, at undermining the Iranian regime to such an extent that it must respond in some way.
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/06/02/war-with-iran-has-it-already-begun/
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/06/02/war-with-iran-has-it-already-begun/
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Israel must cooperate with Gaza human rights probe: UN chief:
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has renewed his call for Israel’s cooperation with the team mandated by the U.N. Human Rights Council to probe rights abuses and violations of international law during its bombing of Gaza in January, his spokesperson said Wednesday.
http://www.pakistantimes.net/pt/detail.php?newsId=1231
http://www.pakistantimes.net/pt/detail.php?newsId=1231
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Remembering Tom Hurndall:
Tom, a photojournalism student, was shot by a sniper from the Israeli Defense Forces while escorting children away from gunfire in Gaza in April 2003
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/kate_day/blog/2009/06/03/remembering_tom_hurndall
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/kate_day/blog/2009/06/03/remembering_tom_hurndall
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Hezbollah camp gaining ground ahead of Lebanon vote:
Hezbollah and its Christian allies are expected to gain a slim advantage in Sunday’s Lebanese parliamentary election, erasing the Western-backed anti-Syrian coalition’s majority, pollsters said on Wednesday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1090132.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1090132.html
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Robert Fisk: Police state is the wrong venue for Obama’s speech:
Barack Obama chose Egypt for his “great message” to Muslims tomorrow because it contains a quarter of the world’s Arab population, but he is also coming to one of the region’s most repressed, undemocratic and ruthless police states.
http://snipurl.com/jdcgk
http://snipurl.com/jdcgk
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Masterminding CIA torture paid $1,000 a day:
The Central Intelligence Agency is revealed to have paid USD 1,000 a day to former military trainers to integrate torture into the body’s interrogation methods.
http://www.presstv.com/classic/detail.aspx?id=93248§ionid=3510203
http://www.presstv.com/classic/detail.aspx?id=93248§ionid=3510203
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Cheney personally oversaw ‘secret’ congressional briefings on torture: report:
Former Vice President Dick Cheney “personally” oversaw at least four briefings with members of Congress about the Bush administration’s interrogation program in an effort to maintain support for the torture of detainees in U.S. custody.
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/06/03/cheney-oversaw-torture/
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/06/03/cheney-oversaw-torture/
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CIA ‘plot to kill Hugo Chavez’:
The Venezuelan president said on state television that he had eluded an assassination attempt in El Salvador where he was due to attend the swearing in of its new leader, a Left-wing ally.
http://snipurl.com/jdcs4
http://snipurl.com/jdcs4
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U.S. bankruptcy filings up 37% last month:
U.S. consumer bankruptcy filings soared 37 percent in May compared with the same period last year, according to figures released Tuesday by the American Bankruptcy Institute.
http://snipurl.com/jdd2n
http://snipurl.com/jdd2n
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California will run out of cash in 14 days:
The state wallet is empty. The bank closed. Credit has dried up, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger told lawmakers in a special Tuesday morning address at the Capitol.
http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2009/06/01/daily23.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2009/06/01/daily23.html
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State’s unemployment fund short by billions:
California is paying out so much for jobless benefits and collecting so little in payroll taxes that its unemployment insurance fund could be $17.8 billion in debt by the end of 2010
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/02/MNSG17UR5H.DTL
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/02/MNSG17UR5H.DTL
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Texas cop uses Taser on 72-year-old great grandmother:
The cop claims he was forced to defend himself because Kathryn Winkfein “got violent” in her refusal to sign the ticket. The cop said she also used profanity, making him fear for his life.
http://snipurl.com/jdd6i
http://snipurl.com/jdd6i
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