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Op-Ed Articles
The Most Important News Story of the Day/Millennium
By Bill McKibben
Pakistan Says U.S. Drones in its Air Space Will be Shot Down
By NBC News
Wars Without Victory Equal an America Without Influence
By Patrick Cockburn
The Real Definition of Terrorism
By Glenn Greenwald
Syria's Bashar Assad Speaks to Western Press
By Tony Cartalucci
Palestinians are an Invented People, says Newt Gingrich
By The Associated Press
Bankers are the Dictators of the West
By Robert Fisk
Europe's Transition From Social Democracy to Oligarchy
By Michael Hudson
So What Shall We Ruin in November 2012?
By Lawrence Davidson
Americans' Net Worth Plummets as Corporations Stockpile Cash
By Derek Kravitz and Dave Carpenter
Why Is Eric Cantor Blocking the Congressional Insider Trading Act?
By John Carney
The Goal is Not to Occupy it is to End Corporate Rule
By Kevin Zeese
Must we Permit the US Military to Detain Americans Without Trial?
By Seema Jilani
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| Hard News
Three Afghan "Taliban" killed, 32 held :
Three Taliban "insurgents" were killed and 32 arrested during a series of joint military operations carried out in various Afghan provinces over the last 24 hours, the Afghanistan interior ministry said Sunday morning.
http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-124368.html
Two foreign occupation force soldiers killed in eastern Afghanistan:
Two soldiers with the NATO-led occupation forces were killed Sunday in an improvised explosive device attack in eastern Afghanistan, the military coalition said. http://bit.ly/vCCJRs
Karzai says foreigners fuel Afghan corruption:
Foreigners are fuelling the problem of corruption in Afghanistan, a country already ranked as one of the most corrupt in the world, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Sunday. http://yhoo.it/vAookS
Talks Under Way in Pakistan, Taliban Say:
The deputy chief of the Pakistani Taliban announced Saturday that the militant group was in peace talks with the government and that an agreement to end its brutal four-year insurgency was within striking distance. http://nyti.ms/vCC7HS
Pakistan forces take control of Shamasi base as U.S. troops pull out: 51 U.S. troops have vacated the airbase and their luggage has been shifted to Afghanistan and FC [Frontier Corps] took the control of base," the paper said. http://en.rian.ru/world/20111211/169711938.html
Seven killed in Iraq violence:
A spate of gun and bomb attacks across northern and central Iraq yesterday killed seven people and left four others wounded, security officials said. http://bit.ly/vr45xw
NATO to withdraw Iraq mission at year-end: Iraq:
NATO will withdraw its Iraq training mission at year-end after Baghdad refused to grant it legal immunity, Iraq's top security adviser said on Sunday, mirroring the nearly-complete pullout of US forces. http://bit.ly/vWUps5
5 people killed as Syrian troops battle army deserters :
Fighting between Syrian forces and defectors calling themselves the Free Syrian Army threatens to push the confrontation into civil war. http://wapo.st/tSRxR9
Israel: End of Assad would be 'blessing':
Ehud Barak predicted that Syrian President Bashar Assad would be toppled within weeks. http://bit.ly/vazXgk
Israeli forces kill Palestinian protester:
Mustafa Tamimi was throwing stones at an Israeli military vehicle when a tear gas canister was shot at him directly. http://bit.ly/sNrHI8
Gingrich stands by 'invented' Palestinians remark:
US presidential hopeful says he supports "two-state solution" but defends controversial comments about Palestinians. http://bit.ly/soqf76
Gingrich would "instruct" CIA to "hunt down" freed Palestinian prisoners:
I'm told that at least thirty of the people released were involved in killing Americans, and I would instruct the CIA to hunt down those thirty. http://bit.ly/sr0J9S
Libya One killed as "rebels" attempt to assassinate country's new army commander:
Army spokesman Sgt. Abdel-Razik el-Shibahy said fighters from the western mountain town of Zintan opened fire on two occasions on Saturday on the convoy of Gen. Khalifa Hifter, the commander of the newly rebuilt army. He said guard was killed and four others wounded in the second attack. http://bit.ly/tJcISW
Iran to sue US over airspace violation:
Jalali added that Iran has lodged a complaint with the UN Security Council about the American RQ-170 Sentinel spy aircraft that was flying over eastern part of the country, and the blatant US violation of its territorial integrity. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/215057.html
Satellite Images Suggest Something Happened at Iranian Nuclear Facility -- But Was It an Explosion?: Israeli sources have suggested that the blast occurred at the nuclear facility; Iran, in turn, has denied that any sort of blast happened there. http://fxn.ws/vwLKQ8
Medvedev orders poll probe after protests: President Dmitry Medvedev ordered an investigation on Sunday into allegations of fraud in Russia's parliamentary election, one day after tens of thousands of protesters demanded it be annulled and rerun. http://bit.ly/vwJEvs
Wall Street Propagandists Scramble To Cover US Ties to Russian Protesters.: As the evidence begins to mount pointing the accusing finger at the increasingly illegitimate corporate-financier occupiers of the West's governments as having built up Russian opposition movements and being behind the current unrest filling Russia's streets, the corporate media has already started to rewrite events as they unfold. http://bit.ly/tyE2Ae
El Salvador apologises for 1981 massacre:
Sunday marks the 30th anniversary of the killings at the small northeastern village of El Mozote, where US trained troops rounded up men, women and children, accused many of collaborating with leftist armed groups, and murdered them in cold blood. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2011/12/2011121154053714204.html
Sterilisation: Peru's darkest secret:
An investigation into whether Alberto Fujimori's government carried out mass forced sterilisations in the 1990s has been reopened http://ind.pn/rwPlsn
"Let us be peace and joy"
Tom Feeley
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| Cost Of war
Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq"1,455,590"
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq:
4,801
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 2,825
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Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
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