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Video shows Nigeria 'executions' Nigerian police and military units carried out extrajudicial killings last year in the aftermath of clashes with members of a Muslim group in the north of the country, footage obtained by media appears to confirm.
Toyota issues global Prius recall Toyota has issued a worldwide recall for about 437,000 of its flagship Prius and other hybrid vehicles in the latest of a series of embarrassing safety problems to hit the Japanese carmaker.
Iran 'begins advanced enrichment' Iran has begun enriching uranium to a purity level of 20 per cent to produce a higher grade of nuclear fuel, state-owned television has reported.
Tymoshenko 'to argue Ukraine vote' The parliamentary faction of Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine's prime minister, has claimed widespread fraud in the country's presidential election and said it would challenge the result in court.

NY Times: No conflict of interest

With the conventional wisdom

The New York Times’ public editor wrestled this week with conflict-of-interest charges sparked by the revelation that Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner’s son had joined the Israeli army. The executive editor of the paper responded with a sensible defense of the paper’s decision to keep Bronner in that position.

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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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To Tea Or Not To Tea

by Joel S. Hirschhorn
 
As a long term, proud political dissident and rebel I have had some admiration for the national tea party movement.  I welcome all that shakes up and reforms our dysfunctional political system.  But in the end I find far too much distasteful about what these people embrace to participate in or support it.

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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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Growing Hunger in America

In January 2010, Feeding America (FA, formerly America's Second Harvest) released its disturbing new report on growing hunger titled, 'Hunger in America 2010.' The Chicago-based organization is the nation's 'leading domestic hunger-relief charity,' serving the needy 'through a nationwide network of member food banks, over 200 in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto...

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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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