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Iraq ‘To Appeal Blackwater Verdict’
By Aljazeera

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The Iraqi government will push to appeal a US court ruling dismissing charges of murder against five security guards of the private Blackwater firm

Obama Administration Prepares Public Opinion
For Attack On Yemen
By Patrick Martin

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Five days after the unsuccessful attempt by a Nigerian student to set off a bomb aboard a Detroit-bound passenger jet, US military and intelligence officials are said to be preparing expanded military action against targets in Yemen, the Arab country where the student allegedly received terrorist training and was equipped with an explosive device

The Northwest Flight 253 Intelligence Failure:
Negligence Or Conspiracy?
By Bill Van Auken

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In the five days since the abortive attempt by the 23-year-old Nigerian student Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to detonate an explosive device onboard Northwest Flight 253, information has surfaced that indicates an ostensible breakdown in US intelligence and security that is extraordinary in both its character and scale

Welcome To Orwell’s World
By John Pilger

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Obama’s lies over the Afghanistan war remind us of the lessons of Nineteen Eighty-Four

New Year, New Hope?
By Alan Hart

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With the dawn of a New Year is there any reason to hope that it will see real progress on ending the conflict in and over Palestine that became Israel and stopping the countdown to catastrophe for all?

On Gaza Drivers, Rumours And Egypt’s Steel Wall
By Ramzy Baroud

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News of an enormous metal wall that Egypt erected at its border with Gaza has come to the fore. Palestinians, including some in the Hamas government never cease to refer to Egypt and Egyptians as “Sister Egypt” and “Egyptian brethren”. Why then are Sister Egypt and the Egyptian brethren taking part in this injustice and allowing Israeli violence to perpetuate? Money? Political validation? Attempts at regional relevance and fear of dismissal if they dare defy Washington’s will?

Israel’s East Jerusalem Linked
Settlement Expansion
By Stephen Lendman

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On February 1, 2009, the International Solidarity Movement reported that Israel continues its E 1 area homes and infrastructure work that includes linking its Ma’ale Adummim settlement with East Jerusalem and other settlements around it. It said Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, while in office, promised to expand E 1 development – the land northeast of Jerusalem, west of Ma’ale Adummim comprising about 12 square kilometers, all of it illegally annexed

Buy An African Baby,Bomb Some African Villages
By Thomas C. Mountain

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Asmara, Eritrea: Did anyone ask movie star Angelina Jolie how much she paid for the Ethiopian baby she adopted? Or should I say how much she “donated”, most of which ended up in the hands of the national crime syndicate known as the Government of Ethiopia. Just about anyone can buy a baby in Ethiopia these days, you know what I mean, “adopt”? It costs about $30,000. Cash.. Some reports say over 3,000 were sold…adopted, last year alone

“The System Worked”
By Tom Stephens

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We’re between the rock and the hard place. In spite of the risks, it’s time to change – indeed completely overturn and junk – a system that works for the fat cats and the power brokers, while it abuses you and me and billions of ordinary people. In the mean time, thanks to Ms. Napolitano for timely and publicly providing the awful 2000 -09 decade with a fitting moniker: The Decade that the System Worked

The Australian Ombudsman
By Ghali Hassan

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The case of a Muslim student who was excluded from the University of Western Sydney (UWS) early this year is particularly instructive. The student was racially abused and assaulted by one of the University’s unskilled Anglo staff. Despite overwhelming evidence of racially-motivated assault and the fact that the staff has admitted using racist language and violence, the University concocted and used baseless allegations to justify the student’s exclusion. The student’s appeal to the ombudsman too fell on deaf ears

America Fights; China Prospers
By Case Wagenvoord

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Finally we know the real reason we’re in Iraq and Afghanistan. Our military’s mission is to prepare the way for China’s commercial interests. First, China and Russia squeezed us out of the oil concessions in southern Iraq. Now, The New York Times tells us that China has won the rights to mine one of the world’s richest copper deposits near the village of Aynak in Afghanistan

American Disappointment
By Joel S. Hirschhorn

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Here’s a resolution for the New Year: As a US citizen I will act responsibly and do everything I can to get strong reforms of our political and government system. Start with becoming a member of Friends of the Article V Convention at foavc.org

A Hope For The Year 2010
By Mirza A. Beg

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For those who choose a better tomorrow, not only for themselves, but for all, this is the time for a momentous change. It is a time to raise our voice against the voices of hate within our own countries, societies and religions to usher the hoped for new millennium

1st January, 1818: ‘The Battle Of Bhima Koregaon’
By Pardeep Singh Attri

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January 1st 1818, when everyone around the world was busy in celebrating the ‘new year’, when everyone was in cheerful mood, but not for a small force of 500 untouchable soldiers were preparing them to for battleground. Who knows this battle is going to write future of ‘Brahmin Peshwa Baji Rao-II’? It wasn’t just another battle; it was a battle for self respect, esteem and against the supremacy of Manusmriti. This battle is important in history, as everyone know that after this battle rule of ‘Peshwa Rao’ ended

Tribal Rights
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat

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I can only wish if the tribal had their own Kanshi Ram who could have made them emerge as an independent entity and not look for messiahs. Dalits in India salute Kanshiram for this political contribution that he has made them an entity where they can stand at their own in this democratic polity. Tribal need political leaders who can stand at their own and fight their battle at their own and not look for imported messiahs. Once they have this, they will win the democratic battle and their own survival as their political class will not remain unaccountable as it seems today

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