Archive for October, 2010

Welcome Russia; Afghans are waiting with love

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By Hanan Habizai:
‘Our country is suffering since USSR invaded Afghanistan. It is nothing else but a reminder of hard time to Afghans. Russian military presence in Afghanistan will drive more Afghans to support the Taliban fighters and this will be considered as new opportunity to take revenge from Russians. The sons of those who were killed by soviet forces in 1980s can now carry the gun and fight

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Is Rupert Murdoch Ignorant?

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By Alan Hart:
I would then say to Murdoch that my charge today is (generally speaking) that the mainstream media has betrayed democracy. And I would add, “You, sir, are the greatest betrayer, traitor, of them all.”

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US INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES; The Fear Merchants

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By Yvonne Ridley:

Of course what better way to divert voters’ minds from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Wikileaks than to create a fresh new bogeyman … Yemen.
Any government which uses security and fear to win votes does not deserve to be in power.

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EMERGING REALITIES OF AFGHANISTAN

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By Air Commodore Khalid Iqbal:
Next strategy review on Afghanistan is just around the corner. Though Obama would have to face intense criticism, he needs to come clean on the issue. Time is ripe to end the military mission in Afghanistan. Wish of decimating the Taliban entities must be shelved and a whole hearted effort should focus on political process.

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Should Pakistan Shoot Down a Drone?

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By Dr Haider Mehdi:
First and foremost, the entire nation should speak out and let the “megalomaniac” ruling elite in the power corridors of Islamabad know that they will not take any more “torments” of their “love”… the destruction of their country.

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CHINA’S CREATIVE ACCOUNTING

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By Ellen H Brown:
China’s government can direct its banks to advance credit in the national currency as needed, because it owns the banks. Ironically, the Chinese evidently got that idea from us. Sun Yat-sen was a great admirer of Abraham Lincoln, who avoided a crippling national debt by issuing debt-free Treasury notes during the Civil War;

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JEFFREY FELTMAN’S “REALLY GREAT PLAN”

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By Franklin Lamb:
“ Let’s blame (Imad) Mughniyah for killing Hariri. He’s dead so the investigative trail ends. Just say, ‘We had no idea what he was doing’. No more tribunal. Everyone is happy. And as a sweetener we’ll take Hezbollah off our Terrorism list.” US undersecretary of State for Near East Affairs Jeffrey Feltman to Hezbollah via the Saudi-Syrian, back channel on 10/22/10

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Revelations of systemic torture by British military

Posted on29. Oct, 2010 by .

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By Paul Mitchell:
Straw was in the Labour government that joined the illegal US invasion of Iraq. If the same criteria were applied here that were applied at the Nuremberg Tribunal for Nazi war criminals, Straw and many of his colleagues, including former prime minister Tony Blair, would find themselves in the dock.

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American Democracy: Pro-Israel Tweedledum and Tweedledee

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By Maidhc Ó Cathail:
Helen Keller’s pithy observation about American democracy being little more than a choice “between Tweedledum and Tweedledee” was never more true than in the upcoming midterm elections in the ninth congressional district of Illinois.

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Islam’s New Faces Part – II

Posted on29. Oct, 2010 by .

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By Dr Muzaffar Iqbal:
And when the political leadership—a Tony Blair, an Angela Merkel—also suffers from the same disease, it becomes plausible that this leadership will try to enact laws, which will violate even the most basic human rights, in order to “protect” what it deems to be “their way of life”, as opposed to Muslims’ way of life.

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