You’re on the Battlefield Right Now
Arthur Silber
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My head began exploding when I read the opening paragraph of this NYT article: A plan to create a new Pentagon cybercommand is raising significant privacy and diplomatic concerns, as the Obama administration moves ahead on efforts to protect the nation from cyberattack and to prepare for possible offensive operations against adversaries’ computer networks. It’s impossible to say which is more disturbing: that the Pentagon will be in charge of this “cybercommand” mo nstrosity, or that the U.S. government — which, as all good Americans know deep in their hearts, wants only peace and sunshine and puppy dogs and kitty cats and ponies! for all humanity (if not for any sizable number of actually existing individual persons) — is yapping about “possible offensive operations against adversaries’ computer networks.”…
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Mobile phones, Facebook, YouTube cut in Iran
AFP
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The main mobile telephone network in Iran was cut in the capital Tehran Saturday evening while popular Internet websites Facebook and YouTube also appeared to be blocked, correspondents said. The communication cuts came after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won a landslide re-election victory, sparking rioting in the streets by opposition supporters who claimed the result had been rigged. The mobile phone network stopped working at 10:00 pm (1730 GMT), just before Ahmadinejad went on television to declare the election a “great victory” and even as baton-wielding police were clashing with protestors in the streets of Tehran, according to witnesses…
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Iran: Riot in Tehran streets after election day
Revolutionary Road…
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Supporters of the main election challenger to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad clashed with police and set up barricades of burning tires today as authorities declared the hard-line president was re-elected in a landslide. Opponents responded with the most serious unrest in the capital in a decade and charges that the result was the work of a “dictatorship.” Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, closed the door on any chance he could use his limitless power s to intervene in the disputes from Friday’s election. In a message on state TV, he urged the nation to unite behind Ahmadinejad, calling the result a “divine assessment.”…
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Video: Palestine: What it’s all about (Never Before Campaign)
Never Before Campaign
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In the midst of the struggle, and the dust of battle, many people still don’t realize what this is all about… It is not only about land and rights…
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Afghanistan: Northern Supply Lines Under Attack
Moon of Alabama
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Due to the increasing attacks on the supply lines to Afghanistan from the port of Karachi in Pakistan through Quetta to Kandahar and through Peshavar to Kabul, the U.S. looked for new supply lines. These were found in the north. Back in February Tajikistan and Uzbekistan allowed the U.S. and NATO to transport non-military goods (an oxymoron?) across their borders. The northern routes goes from Latvia at the Baltic sea via rail through Russia and Kazakhstan to Uzbekistan and Tajikistan and from there to Afghanistan…
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Settlerland
Marcy Newman, body on the line
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Coming home today through the Palestinian village of Khader i noticed some new posters at the entrance of the Zionist terrorist colony of eEfrat’s checkpoint. The close up of the image is below. While i believe that the United States president–whoever s/he is–represents the interests of the hegemonic white power structures, he is still obviously a target for racist and islamophobes around the world as this image shows. But this image also illustrates the mentality of Xionist terr orist colonists in Palestine.
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Ahmadinejad Re-Election Doesn’t Deter Obama From Engaging Iran
By Viola Gienger, Roger Runningen and Robert Delaney
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The Obama administration will proceed with its plan to engage Iran and deal with re-elected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, even as it monitors complaints from his opponents that the election results were fraudulent. The Obama administration has concluded that it will have to forge ahead with its efforts to persuade Iran to stop its nuclear program and that it will have to work with Ahmadinejad, an administra tion official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. U.S. leaders must face the situation as it is, not how they wish it would be, the official said. The U.S. has fundamental interests at stake and will pursue them to the end, the official said…
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Hamas congratulates Ahmadinejad on re-election
PressTV
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The Palestinian Hamas has cheered President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over his landslide victory in the Iranian presidential elections. In reference to the Friday elections that resulted in the incumbent president’s re-election, the movement suggested the results to be a sign of national support for the policies pursued by Ahmadinejad. “The results show a wide public commendation for Iran’s policy of challenge,” Fawzi Barhoum — a Hamas spokesman — said in a statement sent to the press…
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Minefields in Obama’s Cairo Speech
A Palestinian View
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…If we put symbolism and matters of style apart, one is left with the inescapable conclusion that Obama did not really come up with any real surprises in terms of actual policies, especially with regard to the Palestinian issue; the main and enduring point of contention between the United States and the Muslim world. His assertion of the two-state solution is hardly a surprise. George Bush had spoken ad nauseam of his vision of seeing a Palestinian state living side by side with Israel in peace…
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As Gates Promises to Reduce Afghan Civilian Toll, NATO Kills More
NATO Forces Kill Two in Kunar Shelling, Four More Die in Traffic Accident
Jason Ditz
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Secretary of Defense Robert Gates today promised that in the effort to win the hearts and minds of the civilian populace of Afghanistan, NATO would put an increased emphasis on reducing the number of civilians being killed by international forces. Meanwhile, during fighting in Afghanistan’s Kunar Province NATO forces fired artillery at civilians, killing two and wounding five others…
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