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Sri Lanka arrests General Fonseka General Sarath Fonseka, the defeated candidate in Sri Lanka's presidential election, has been arrested for "military offences", defence officials have said.
Yanukovych 'wins Ukraine election' Viktor Yanukovich, Ukraine's pro-Russian opposition leader, has claimed a slender win in presidential elections but Yulia Tymoshenko, his bitter rival in Sunday's runoff for the post, has refused to concede defeat.
Iran to step up uranium enrichment Iran has informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in an official letter that it will begin enriching higher-grade nuclear fuel to a level of 20 per cent from Tuesday.
Al-Qaeda leader threatens US Saed Elshari, al-Qaeda's number two in the Arabian Peninsula, has called for attacks against US interests "everywhere".

Churchill’s Crimes & Chilcot Inquiry on Iraq War

Anglo Holocaust Commission

In WW2 Churchill deliberately starved 6-7 million Indians to death, continued to foster Muslim-Hindu antipathy that led to the horrors of Indian Partition and persuaded his War Cabinet on racist Partition of Palestine. Yet Sir Martin Gilbert, an eminent UK historian and member of  the current UK Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War, made no mention of Churchill’s WW2 Bengali Holocaust  in 2 definitive books about Churchill.

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Rethinking 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been'

Five decades ago, the “Pied Piper of Tucson,” a psychopathic killer, roamed the streets of this Southwest city seeking, seducing and killing teen-aged girls. Strangely, teenagers throughout the Tucson area that knew of his lawless and abnormal behavior kept silent, saying nothing to parents or police. More strange still, this short and stocky Pied Piper stuffed his boots with paper to appear taller, strutted cockily about mimicking teen talk and charismatically charming his prey. Parents and police had only one word to explain the silence, “inexplicable.”

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American Empire [Part 2]

As his presidency was drawing to a close, Dwight David Eisenhower gave the people of the United States a clear and unmistakable warning. He clearly spelled out the dangers involved in maintaining a defense industry that is constantly researching new weapons and a defense industry that employs millions of people, military and civilian. I believe that what he had to say then is more...

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Britain, You Better Wake Up

The more I read about the Chilcot inquiry the more disturbed I am. The fallacy imbued in the heart of British ‘democracy’ is staggering. While some commentators are concerned with questions to do with the legality of the war, the most crucial issue here is actually the disappearance of ethical judgment from our public and political life.

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President O'Bomber Accepts The No Bull Prize

Humor by Lawrence Velvel
 
In an exclusive interview, President B. Rack O’Bomber disclosed he did not heed the advice of Pentagon authorities to reject the NoBull Peace Prize on the ground it sometimes had been awarded to pro-peace figures, making the NoBull Committee a bunch of hypocrites.

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My Two Cents

I’m only guessing, but a major problem with being President has to be people around you being more likely to stick their face in a cast iron oscillating fan than tell you the truth. Let’s say you slip and fall and rip a hole in your pants down to your ankle while spilling hot coffee on a little blind girl in a wheelchair in front of a nationally televised audience. The worst...

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US Sponsored Regime Change in Iran

Mossadegh and Ahmadinejad: Iran Faces Almost the Same Dilemma as in 1953
by Ardeshir Ommani There is a stark similarity between some aspects of the political atmosphere dominant over Iran today and those under Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh right before the U.S.-led coup of 1953 that resulted in the overthrow of the legitimate government of Iran and the establishment of...

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Aafia Siddiqui: Victimized by American Injustice

On February 3, a Department of Justice press release headlined 'Aafia Siddiqui Found Guilty in Manhattan Federal Court of Attempting to Murder US Nationals in Afghanistan and Six Additional Charges.'

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Avnery on a Taboo

A Four-Letter Word MANY IMPORTANT struggles in Israel are calling out to people of conscience. Among others (in random order):

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Obama's Misguided Nuclear Dementia

There is no such thing as safe, clean nuclear power, and there never will be.  There is no such thing as safe containment of nuclear waste, and there never will be.  Therefore, we should not put our money into President Obama's misguided nuclear dementia.

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