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- Tony Blair defends war legacy, cites 9/11
- De Villepin acquitted in Sarkozy 'smear' case
- UN extends AU mission in Somalia until 2011
- Taliban launch commando assault in Lashkar Gah
- Saudi officials warn of 'heavy losses' over Iran Umrah ban
- Six Azeri soldiers killed in shooting incident
- Mogadishu violence claims 11 lives
- Sri Lanka opposition offices raided
- Israeli mind-scanner may take over US airports
- Taliban fighters attack Afghan city
- UN holds secret talks with Taliban commanders
- UN deadline for Gaza war report expires Friday
- Blair faces public grilling over Iraq on Friday
- Blair defends Iraq war at inquiry
- 'Israel assassinates top Hamas commander in Dubai'
- US Senate faintly supports Bernanke's new term
- Appeal planned over Villepin ruling
- Blair faces UK Iraq war inquiry
- Bin Laden deplores climate change
- Vietnam democracy activist jailed
- Civilians killed in Somalia clashes
- Courtroom Cirque du Jihad
- Crisis of the Government Party
- Hamas blames Israel for Dubai death
- Toyota urged to act over recalls
- Biden: US to up investment in nuclear arsenal
- Sri Lankan president to dissolve parliament
- Pakistan willing to help Taliban reintegration process
- Is Obama's Magic Fading?
- China reiterates need for diplomacy on Iran
- Despite truce call, Saudis pounding northern Yemen
- Despite truce call, Saudis pound northern Yemen
- US Senate passes legislation on Iran sanctions
- Auschwitz Survivor: 'Israel acts like Nazis'
- US soldier killed in southern Afghanistan
- Blair to face UK Iraq war inquiry
- Machu Picchu tourists evacuated
- Obama: I will never waver from supporting Israel
- Indonesia censors under fire
- Seeing America as a Battle for Economic Niches
- Northwest flight terror attack staged?
- Holocaust remembrance is a boon for Israeli propaganda
- US to fight Taliban, reintegrate them: Clinton
- Brown: Security handover to Afghans starts in '10
- US-backed Taliban payout could prove unpopular
- Toyota faces safety recall crisis
- Author JD Salinger dies
- Mottaki meets with Sarkozy adviser in Davos
- 'Attack on Hezbollah is attack on Lebanon'
- Ukraine interior minister sacked ahead of run-off
- Protesters say Afghan confab not about peace
- Toyota expands vehicle recall
- 'Nothing' stops Russia arms delivery to Iran
- Bernanke keeps US Fed chief post
- Targeted CIA drones strike
- Israeli tanks target Gaza homes, farmlands
- Iran execution provokes outrage
- Empire - 'War on terror' through Muslim eyes
- Dusseldorf displays largest moon sculpture
- Afghan villages form local militias
- Focus on Sri Lanka's future
- Qatar Masters Day One Preview
- California hints at sending prisoners to Mexico
- On the Racist Australian Government's Attempts to Define the 'Jews' as If a 'Race' or 'Ethnicity'
- NATO-led air strike kills 20 in Afghanistan
- Ben Bernanke re-appointed as Federal Reserve chairman
- Gunmen murder cleric outside Baghdad mosque
- If You Rebuild It, They Will Come
- Bangladesh hangs assassins of Independence Leader
- Howard Zinn -- an American mahatma
- NATO troops shoot cleric in Afghanistan
- Kurdish girl gets 8 years in prison In Turkey
- Summit backs Afghan security transition
- 16-year-old Haitian found alive 15 days after quake
- Celente: SOTU was a pep rally for Obama
- New US finding: Two-thirds of Taliban not extremists
- Authorities Quietly Reverse Underwear Bomber Official Story
- US historian and anti-war activist Howard Zinn dies
- Shoe Bombers, Crotch Bombers, 911 and Israel
- Karzai: Civilian toll from NATO raids too high
- Chad calls for UN troop withdrawal
- Mossad orchestrated Christmas Day bomb plot
- Rumble in the Junta
- Ahmadinejad: Iran will foil enemy plots in region
- '99% of Auschwitz Eyewitness Testimony Cannot Be Substantiated'
- Abdullah casts doubts on Afghan security plan
- Spencer Ackerman on Obama's state of the union address
- Incredible Quote from President Andrew Jackson on the Evils of Banking Appears on Internet
- Bilin grassroots leader Mohammed Khatib arrested in late-night raid
- 'US plan to reintegrate the Taliban is doomed'
- Russia 'free to sell Iran weapons', will help Iraq mission
- Israel fast-tracking Indian immigrants to subvert settlement freeze
- UK summit unveils new Afghan policy
- Palestinian Authority: Pray our way or else
- Coffee with Bradley Smith: Haiti, Race, and Army Boxing
- Cold Front Mystery Tour: RT takes you to Siberia
- Clinton in Haiti appeal to Davos
- Meteorologists Agree: Man-Made Warming Isn't Real
| Tony Blair defends war legacy, cites 9/11 Posted: 29 Jan 2010 10:27 AM PST
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| De Villepin acquitted in Sarkozy 'smear' case Posted: 29 Jan 2010 07:06 AM PST
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| UN extends AU mission in Somalia until 2011 Posted: 29 Jan 2010 07:02 AM PST
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| Taliban launch commando assault in Lashkar Gah Posted: 29 Jan 2010 06:52 AM PST
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| Saudi officials warn of 'heavy losses' over Iran Umrah ban Posted: 29 Jan 2010 06:47 AM PST
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| Six Azeri soldiers killed in shooting incident Posted: 29 Jan 2010 06:36 AM PST
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| Mogadishu violence claims 11 lives Posted: 29 Jan 2010 06:31 AM PST
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| Sri Lanka opposition offices raided Posted: 29 Jan 2010 06:02 AM PST  Dozens of police commandoes have raided the Colombo offices of Sarath Fonseka, the defeated Sri Lankan presidential candidate. |
| Israeli mind-scanner may take over US airports Posted: 29 Jan 2010 05:41 AM PST
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| Taliban fighters attack Afghan city Posted: 29 Jan 2010 05:17 AM PST  Afghan troops, backed by Nato helicopters, have clashed with Taliban fighters after they attacked United Nations and government buildings in Helmand province, witnesses and officials said. |
| UN holds secret talks with Taliban commanders Posted: 29 Jan 2010 05:09 AM PST
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| UN deadline for Gaza war report expires Friday Posted: 29 Jan 2010 04:32 AM PST
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| Blair faces public grilling over Iraq on Friday Posted: 29 Jan 2010 03:08 AM PST
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| Blair defends Iraq war at inquiry Posted: 29 Jan 2010 03:01 AM PST  Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, has defended his decision to send UK troops into Iraq, saying the September 11 attacks changed the "calculus of risk" associated with Saddam Hussein. Giving evidence at a public inquiry in London on Friday, Blair conceded that the Iraqi leader did not become a greater threat following the attacks but said that the "perception of risk" had changed. |
| 'Israel assassinates top Hamas commander in Dubai' Posted: 29 Jan 2010 02:52 AM PST
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| US Senate faintly supports Bernanke's new term Posted: 29 Jan 2010 02:30 AM PST
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| Appeal planned over Villepin ruling Posted: 29 Jan 2010 01:56 AM PST  French prosecutors have said they will appeal the judgement clearing Dominique de Villepin, the former French prime minister, of plotting to smear Nicolas Sarkozy, the current president, to sabotage his bid for the presidency, Jean-Claude Marin, the state prosecutor, said on Friday that it was "surprising" that the court had cleared Villepin. |
| Blair faces UK Iraq war inquiry Posted: 29 Jan 2010 01:38 AM PST  Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, has begun testifying before an inquiry into Britain's involvement in the Iraq war. Hundreds of protesters, including anti-war campaigners and the families of some of the 179 soldiers who have died in Iraq, have gathered outside the building where Blair is giving evidence. |
| Bin Laden deplores climate change Posted: 29 Jan 2010 01:31 AM PST  Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader, has condemned the US and other industrial economies, holding them responsible for the phenomenon of climate change. In an audio tape obtained by Al Jazeera, bin Laden criticised George Bush, the former US president, for rejecting the Kyoto pact and condemned global corporations. |
| Vietnam democracy activist jailed Posted: 29 Jan 2010 01:00 AM PST  An author and democracy activist who criticised Vietnam's communist government has been sentenced to four years in jail after a trial lasting half a day. Pham Thanh Nghien was found guilty on charges of "spreading propaganda against the state". |
| Civilians killed in Somalia clashes Posted: 29 Jan 2010 12:44 AM PST  At least nine people, mainly civilians, have been killed in fresh fighting in the Somali capital, witnesses and medics have said. Anti-government fighters clashed with African Union peacekeepers and government troops in southeastern Mogadishu in the early hours of Friday, resulting in the deaths. |
| Posted: 29 Jan 2010 12:00 AM PST  Imagine this nightmare courtroom scenario: Unhinged Jew-bashing, open mockery of American soldiers, juror intimidation and coldly calculated exploitation of U.S. constitutional protections by a suspected al-Qaida defendant. Well, there's no need to wait for the Gitmo terror trial circuses. New York City is already getting a glimpse of the future. Jihadi scientist Aafia Siddiqui is on trial right now in a federal Manhattan court for the attempted murder and assault of U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan's Ghazni province two years ago. She's an accomplished Karachi-born scientist who studied microbiology at MIT and did graduate work in neurology at Brandeis University before disappearing in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. |
| Crisis of the Government Party Posted: 29 Jan 2010 12:00 AM PST
Democrats are the Party of Government. They feed it, and it feeds them. The larger government grows, the more agencies that are created, the more bureaucrats who are hired, the more people who become beneficiaries, the more deeply entrenched in power the Party of Government becomes.
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| Hamas blames Israel for Dubai death Posted: 28 Jan 2010 11:54 PM PST  Hamas has claimed that one of its commanders was assassinated by Israeli agents in Dubai. An official with the Palestinian group, which controls the Gaza Strip, was quoted by the Reuters news agency as saying that Israel had killed Mahmoud Abdul Raouf al-Mabhouh. |
| Toyota urged to act over recalls Posted: 28 Jan 2010 11:24 PM PST  Toyota must act quickly to restore customer confidence in the wake of a massive global safety recall affecting millions of cars, Japan's trade minister has said. "The scale of the recalls is huge. The situation is serious," Masayuki Naoshima told reporters on Friday. |
| Biden: US to up investment in nuclear arsenal Posted: 28 Jan 2010 11:19 PM PST
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| Sri Lankan president to dissolve parliament Posted: 28 Jan 2010 11:13 PM PST
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| Pakistan willing to help Taliban reintegration process Posted: 28 Jan 2010 10:50 PM PST
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| Posted: 28 Jan 2010 10:21 PM PST  For those who had hoped that President Obama's first State of the Union speech would bring some vigor to troubled Middle East peace process, or bringing a new strategy to close Guantanamo Bay they were dealt a major disappointment in last night speech. In fact, these two issues were the furthest thing on Obama mind during his 70- minute long speech, the longest of all his speeches ever since he held a public office. President Obama used his first State of Union speech to address the mounting pressure on his administration to stabilize the economy amid a historic 10% high unemployment rate for the last month of December and a yearly average of 9.3% high a rate that was not seen since Regan was in office in 1982 and 1983. |
| China reiterates need for diplomacy on Iran Posted: 28 Jan 2010 10:16 PM PST
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| Despite truce call, Saudis pounding northern Yemen Posted: 28 Jan 2010 09:59 PM PST
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| Despite truce call, Saudis pound northern Yemen Posted: 28 Jan 2010 09:59 PM PST
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| US Senate passes legislation on Iran sanctions Posted: 28 Jan 2010 09:40 PM PST
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| Auschwitz Survivor: 'Israel acts like Nazis' Posted: 28 Jan 2010 09:37 PM PST
Dr Meyer also attended hearings at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Thursday, where five pro-Palestine campaigners are accused of racially aggravated conduct after disrupting a concert by the Jerusalem Quartet at the city's Queen's Hall. |
| US soldier killed in southern Afghanistan Posted: 28 Jan 2010 09:32 PM PST
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| Blair to face UK Iraq war inquiry Posted: 28 Jan 2010 09:30 PM PST  Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, is set to make a long-awaited appearance before an inquiry into Britain's involvement in the Iraq war. Anti-war campaigners and the families of some of the 179 soldiers who have died in Iraq are expected to hold protests to coincide with Blair's public grilling on Friday. |
| Machu Picchu tourists evacuated Posted: 28 Jan 2010 09:16 PM PST  Hundreds of stranded tourists have been evacuated from Peru's Machu Picchu region after flooding and mudslides last weekend cut off access to the area. The heaviest rains in 15 years triggered the floods and landslides that blocked roads and railways in the area for several days. More than 3,000 travellers had been trapped for days, many having to eat from communal pots and sleep outdoors, but clear skies enabled helicopters to ferry more than 1,400 people out of Aguas Calientes on Thursday. |
| Obama: I will never waver from supporting Israel Posted: 28 Jan 2010 09:02 PM PST
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| Seeing America as a Battle for Economic Niches Posted: 28 Jan 2010 08:29 PM PST
Wendy Gramm, wife of Republican presidential candidate Phil Gramm. During the Iowa caucus race, Mrs. Gramm dismissed complaints about low wages paid by the meatpacking giant IBP, of which she was a director, with a knee-jerk platitude from her days as an economics professor: "Wages of labor, like other prices, are set in a market." Yeah—but this particular market has been distorted by a policy-produced flood of cheap Latin American and Asian immigrant labor, which has allowed managements to choose a low-wage, low-quality, high-turnover personnel strategy. The immigrant supply is also subsidized by further transfer payments like education, welfare, and (often) refugee benefits. Result: American workers displaced, American towns transformed into alien islands, taxes increased, consumer prices probably lowered rather little overall (because labor is actually a minor factor of production—even assuming no mechanization or substitution), and an enriched special-interest group: IBP management and stockholders. To which Mrs. Gramm, of course, belongs. Under the circumstances, it is surprising that the citizens of Iowa did not process her husband into chopped liver. Come to think of it, they did. |
| Northwest flight terror attack staged? Posted: 28 Jan 2010 07:56 PM PST
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| Holocaust remembrance is a boon for Israeli propaganda Posted: 28 Jan 2010 07:34 PM PST
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| US to fight Taliban, reintegrate them: Clinton Posted: 28 Jan 2010 07:21 PM PST
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| Brown: Security handover to Afghans starts in '10 Posted: 28 Jan 2010 07:06 PM PST
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| US-backed Taliban payout could prove unpopular Posted: 28 Jan 2010 07:01 PM PST
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| Toyota faces safety recall crisis Posted: 28 Jan 2010 06:57 PM PST
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| Posted: 28 Jan 2010 06:33 PM PST  JD Salinger, the American author of The Catcher in the Rye, has died, aged 91. Salinger died of natural causes on Wednesday at his home in the state of New Hampshire, his son, the actor Matt Salinger, said in a statement. |
| Mottaki meets with Sarkozy adviser in Davos Posted: 28 Jan 2010 06:25 PM PST
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| 'Attack on Hezbollah is attack on Lebanon' Posted: 28 Jan 2010 06:13 PM PST
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| Ukraine interior minister sacked ahead of run-off Posted: 28 Jan 2010 06:03 PM PST
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| Protesters say Afghan confab not about peace Posted: 28 Jan 2010 06:01 PM PST
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| Posted: 28 Jan 2010 05:46 PM PST  Toyota has expanded a massive recall of its vehicles to China and Europe, deepening a crisis that threatens to undermine the world number one carmaker's reputation and derail its financial recovery. The Japanese car giant said on Thursday that it would start a recall in February for 75,500 RAV4 vehicles made in China between March 2009 and January 2010 over concerns about potentially faulty accelerator pedals. |
| 'Nothing' stops Russia arms delivery to Iran Posted: 28 Jan 2010 05:45 PM PST
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| Bernanke keeps US Fed chief post Posted: 28 Jan 2010 05:11 PM PST  The US senate has approved Ben Bernanke's nomination to a second term as chairman of the US Federal Reserve despite the stiffest opposition to any nominee for the post in three decades. The senate confirmed Bernanke for a new four-year term by a 70-30 vote on Thursday, 14 votes worse than the closest previous vote for a central bank chief in the nearly 32 years the senate has voted on the position. |
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| Israeli tanks target Gaza homes, farmlands Posted: 28 Jan 2010 03:51 PM PST
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| Iran execution provokes outrage Posted: 28 Jan 2010 03:43 PM PST
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| Empire - 'War on terror' through Muslim eyes Posted: 28 Jan 2010 03:41 PM PST
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| Dusseldorf displays largest moon sculpture Posted: 28 Jan 2010 03:38 PM PST
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| Afghan villages form local militias Posted: 28 Jan 2010 03:37 PM PST
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| California hints at sending prisoners to Mexico Posted: 28 Jan 2010 03:32 PM PST
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| On the Racist Australian Government's Attempts to Define the 'Jews' as If a 'Race' or 'Ethnicity' Posted: 28 Jan 2010 03:00 PM PST  Even if the courts in Australia arbitrarily and in plain error rule that the term "Jew" can be applied to a "race" and/or an "ethnicity"; the courts must also rule that the term "Jew" can be applied to a religious community, a group of persons which anyone can enter by way of conversion to the faith without changing one's genetics or ethnic status. This places the burden of establishing the defendant's mental state on the prosecution, and one of the elements of the alleged "offense" must be that the government prove that the defendant believed and meant to say that "Jews" are a race or ethnicity, as opposed to a religious group. |
| NATO-led air strike kills 20 in Afghanistan Posted: 28 Jan 2010 02:53 PM PST
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| Ben Bernanke re-appointed as Federal Reserve chairman Posted: 28 Jan 2010 02:49 PM PST
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| Gunmen murder cleric outside Baghdad mosque Posted: 28 Jan 2010 02:46 PM PST
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| If You Rebuild It, They Will Come Posted: 28 Jan 2010 02:45 PM PST
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| Bangladesh hangs assassins of Independence Leader Posted: 28 Jan 2010 02:37 PM PST
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| Howard Zinn -- an American mahatma Posted: 28 Jan 2010 02:28 PM PST
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| NATO troops shoot cleric in Afghanistan Posted: 28 Jan 2010 02:19 PM PST
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| Kurdish girl gets 8 years in prison In Turkey Posted: 28 Jan 2010 02:13 PM PST
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| Summit backs Afghan security transition Posted: 28 Jan 2010 01:54 PM PST
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| 16-year-old Haitian found alive 15 days after quake Posted: 28 Jan 2010 01:51 PM PST
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| Celente: SOTU was a pep rally for Obama Posted: 28 Jan 2010 01:33 PM PST
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| New US finding: Two-thirds of Taliban not extremists Posted: 28 Jan 2010 01:30 PM PST
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| Authorities Quietly Reverse Underwear Bomber Official Story Posted: 28 Jan 2010 01:20 PM PST  Authorities have quietly reversed the official story behind the Christmas Day underwear bomber attack and acknowledged that an accomplice was involved, despite weeks of denial and derision of eyewitness Kurt Haskell's description of a sharp-dressed man who helped Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab board Flight 253 in Amsterdam. |
| US historian and anti-war activist Howard Zinn dies Posted: 28 Jan 2010 01:13 PM PST
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| Shoe Bombers, Crotch Bombers, 911 and Israel Posted: 28 Jan 2010 12:42 PM PST
The government and media has worked mightily to keep the American people from fully realizing that the Zionist domination of our politics and support for the murderous Israeli regime, has directly led to 9/11 and other acts of terrorism against Americans around the world. Their power in media and politics has also led us into catastrophic wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with thousands of American casualties and billions of dollars spent, for what? For Israel, that's what. |
| Karzai: Civilian toll from NATO raids too high Posted: 28 Jan 2010 12:32 PM PST
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| Chad calls for UN troop withdrawal Posted: 28 Jan 2010 12:29 PM PST  Chad has told the UN peacekeeping mission to its country to withdraw its soldiers and civilians, and wants a timetable for ending a deployment which the government has never fully accepted. Idriss Deby, Chad's president, is thought to view the presence of the international force, which has yet to achieve its full strength, as an encroachment on sovereign territory, and an unwelcome form of international attention. |
| Mossad orchestrated Christmas Day bomb plot Posted: 28 Jan 2010 12:12 PM PST
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| Posted: 28 Jan 2010 12:12 PM PST  Walking through the streets of Yangon this January, I saw the futility of U.S. sanctions on every corner. Commerce thrives on steamy streets and markets, and billboards advertising Japanese, South Korean, and European brands are everywhere. Meanwhile, junta leaders targeted by sanctions that prevent their families' travel have contented themselves with retirement in splendid homes, while their grandchildren, denied visas to visit the United States, simply go to college in Europe and Australia. Sanctions have only served to isolate the United States. This is especially unfortunate at a time when the United States should be carefully watching, and even influencing, what might be the most important political year in Myanmar's recent history. |
| Ahmadinejad: Iran will foil enemy plots in region Posted: 28 Jan 2010 11:27 AM PST
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| '99% of Auschwitz Eyewitness Testimony Cannot Be Substantiated' Posted: 28 Jan 2010 11:13 AM PST
In an interview with the Canadian newspaper The STAR on 27 December 2009, he urges that all the remains of ruined buildings at Auschwitz-Birkenau be completely demolished and removed. |
| Abdullah casts doubts on Afghan security plan Posted: 28 Jan 2010 11:06 AM PST
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| Spencer Ackerman on Obama's state of the union address Posted: 28 Jan 2010 11:01 AM PST
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| Incredible Quote from President Andrew Jackson on the Evils of Banking Appears on Internet Posted: 28 Jan 2010 10:43 AM PST
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| Bilin grassroots leader Mohammed Khatib arrested in late-night raid Posted: 28 Jan 2010 10:37 AM PST  At 1:45am today, Mohammed Khatib, his wife Lamia and their four young children were woken up by Israeli soldiers storming their home, which was surrounded by a large military force. Once inside the house, the soldiers arrested Khatib, conducted a quick search and left the house. |
| 'US plan to reintegrate the Taliban is doomed' Posted: 28 Jan 2010 10:24 AM PST
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| Russia 'free to sell Iran weapons', will help Iraq mission Posted: 28 Jan 2010 09:56 AM PST
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| Israel fast-tracking Indian immigrants to subvert settlement freeze Posted: 28 Jan 2010 09:41 AM PST  The Israeli government is reported to have quietly approved the fast-track immigration of 7,000 members of a supposedly "lost Jewish" tribe, known as the Bnei Menashe, currently living in a remote area of India.Under the plan, the "lost Jews" would be brought to Israel over the next two years by right-wing and religious organisations who, critics are concerned, will seek to place them in West Bank settlements in a bid to foil Israel's partial agreement to a temporary freeze of settlement growth. |
| UK summit unveils new Afghan policy Posted: 28 Jan 2010 09:33 AM PST  Control over some of Afghanistan's provinces is to be handed over to the Afghan government by the end of 2010, according to foreign ministers attending a one-day international conference in London. UK Foreign Minister David Miliband said on Thursday that 2010 was a "decisive" year because a new government was in place, adding that security of all provinces would be under Afghanistan leadership within five years. |
| Palestinian Authority: Pray our way or else Posted: 28 Jan 2010 09:06 AM PST
Earlier this month, PA security forces raided several mosques in Ramallah, Nablus and Hebron before assaulting and arresting a number of Friday worshippers. |
| Coffee with Bradley Smith: Haiti, Race, and Army Boxing Posted: 28 Jan 2010 08:57 AM PST
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| Cold Front Mystery Tour: RT takes you to Siberia Posted: 28 Jan 2010 08:45 AM PST
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| Clinton in Haiti appeal to Davos Posted: 28 Jan 2010 08:18 AM PST  Bill Clinton, the former US president, has urged global corporate bosses to help rebuild earthquake-hit Haiti, saying it should be seen as a business opportunity and not aid. Addressing the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, Clinton said the catastrophe could turn out to be an opportunity for the devastated nation to emerge from generations of grinding poverty. |
| Meteorologists Agree: Man-Made Warming Isn't Real Posted: 28 Jan 2010 08:17 AM PST
Only one in four American Meteorological Society broadcast meteorologists agrees with United Nations claims that humans are primarily responsible for recent global warming, a survey published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society reports.
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Almost seven years after he joined the US-led invasion of Iraq, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair defended his legacy before an official inquiry Friday in the face of criticism that he misled the nation with his war justification. 
Former French Premier Dominique de Villepin has been cleared of slander charges instigated by President Nicholas Sarkozy accusing him of conspiring to undermine his presidential bid. 
The UN Security Council has unanimously voted for the extension of the African Union's peacekeeping mission in Somalia. 
Fierce gun battles have raged between NATO-backed Afghan troops and heavily-armed militants targeting UN and government buildings in the city of Lashkar Gah. 
A decision by the Iranian government to place a temporary ban on the Umrah pilgrimage to Mecca sets alarm bells ringing in Saudi Arabia with some officials in the Kingdom warning of "heavy losses." 
Military officials in the Republic of Azerbaijan say six soldiers have lost their lives in a shooting incident among troops within the same unit. 
At least 11 people have been killed in violent fighting between al-Shabab fighters and AU peacekeepers in Mogadishu. 
As part of stringent measures to beef up airport security, US authorities may use an Israeli-made mind-reading scanner that allegedly predicts whether a passenger is a potential threat or not. 
A UN official says the UN representative in Afghanistan and members of a Taliban's leadership council have secretly met as the West has been trying to bring the militant group into Afghan government. 
The UN General Assembly's three-month deadline for its internal report on the 22-day Israeli war on the Gaza Strip will expire on Friday. 
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is slated to face a public inquiry on Friday over his decision to join in the invasion of oil-rich Iraq in March, 2003. 
Israel has assassinated a senior Hamas military commander in Dubai, an official in the Palestinian resistance group says. 
The US Senate, with a 70-30 vote, has approved Ben Bernanke as Federal Reserve Chairman for a second four-year term after the Senate Banking Committee confirmed his nomination. 
President Obama is in a dilemma from which there appears to be no easy or early escape.
US Vice President Joe Biden says that Washington will increase investment in its nuclear arsenal and infrastructure in the country's new budget. 
The re-elected Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa will soon dissolve parliament and call for legislative elections. 
Pakistan's foreign minister says his country welcomes Afghan President Hamid Karzai's request for help on reconciling with the Taliban. 
China has called for efforts to solve Iran's nuclear issue through diplomacy, despite a US campaign to pressure other world powers into imposing a new round of sanctions against Iran. 
Saudi aerial and artillery attacks still continue despite a call for truce, in line with the terms of which Yemeni Shia fighters say they have 
Saudi aerial and artillery attacks still continue despite a call for truce, in line with the terms of which Yemeni Shia fighters say they have 
The US Senate has approved a bill that would allow President Barack Obama to impose new sanctions on Iran over its nuclear energy program. 
Dr Hajo Meyer, 86, who survived 10 months in the Nazi death camp, spoke out as his 10-day tour of the UK and Ireland – taking in three Scottish venues – got under way. His comments sparked a furious reaction from hardline Jewish lobby groups, with Dr Meyer branded an "anti-Semite" and accused of abusing his position as a Holocaust survivor.
A bomb explosion killed a US soldier in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, after a senior Afghan police officer was assassinated in the Kandahar province. 
Although US President Barack Obama vaguely acknowledged Israel as the cause of Palestinian "plight," he affirmed that he will never waver from support for Tel Aviv. 
A recent decision by Indonesia's government to ban a film about the military's invasion in East Timor has angered many rights activists. They have called for the country's censorship board to be disbanded, after it blocked the publication of several books last year. Al Jazeera's Step Vaessen reports from Jakarta.
I happened to see this 
Accounts from passengers of the Flight 253, aboard which Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to detonate explosives, suggest that the attack was staged. 
Israel's bigwigs attacked at dawn on a wide front. The president in Germany, the prime minister with a giant entourage in Poland, the foreign minister in Hungary, his deputy in Slovakia, the culture minister in France, the information minister at the United Nations, and even the Likud party's Druze Knesset member, Ayoob Kara, in Italy. They were all out there to make florid speeches about the Holocaust.
US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, says the US forces will fight the Taliban in Afghanistan while a plan to re-integrate the militants is put forward. 
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says the transfer of security responsibilities from international forces to Afghan forces will begin in 2010. 
The US is endorsing a plan to provide financial incentives to Afghan Taliban fighters to lay down their weapons. Barack Obama, the US president, wants to begin drawing down troops by next year and the proposal could help him achieve that goal. But, while many Americans want the war to end, the idea of paying the Taliban could turn out to be unpopular. Al Jazeera's Rosiland Jordan reports.
Shares in Japanese car giant Toyota have tumbled more than 15 per cent in a week as the company struggles to contain the fallout from a safety recall affecting millions of its cars, including its top-selling Camry and Corolla models. The automaker has said it is closing in on a solution to the problem that could cause accelerator pedals to stick. But the growing recall has badly dented the company's reputation for quality and reliability. Al Jazeera's Zeina Awad reports.
Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki met with French President Nicolas Sarkozy's adviser at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday. 
Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri said on Thursday that Israel's threats against Hezbollah are perceived as threats against Lebanon. 
Ukraine's parliament has fired the country's Interior Minister Yury Lutsenko, who is a powerful ally of Prime Minister and presidential hopeful Yulia Tymoshenko. 
Anti-war campaigners have held a rally outside the" Afghanistan Conference" in London, saying it has nothing to do with peace. 
Russia's state-run arms exporter said on Thursday that "nothing" would stop the country from selling military equipment to Iran. 
Johnathan Manes discuss' the use of drones in Afghanistan with Kristine Frazao. Currently, the CIA has increased the use of these drones inside the country. Manes says the public has the right to know and debate how the drones are used.
Israeli army Tanks have opened fire on houses and farmlands in the eastern parts of the Gaza Strip, according to a report by the International Middle East Media Center (IMEMC). 
Two activists have been executed in Iran in a trial linked to post-election violence in June. Arash Rahmanipour and Mohammad Reza Ali-Zamani, were convicted of being "Mohareb" or enemies of God. The executions are believed to be the first related to protests that erupted after June's disputed presidential election - the largest demonstrations in Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
In this episode, Empire looks at how al-Qaeda is perceived in the Muslim world. Does the US' so-called 'war on terror' serve only to alienate Muslims, driving them into the arms of extremist groups? Can the US reverse the tide of military intervention in the region and instead try to reach political solutions that involve all political parties, including repressed Islamic parties? We will also discuss whether the Arab world has an answer to the al-Qaeda challenge.
The German city of Dusseldorf has displayed the world's largest moon sculpture, made based on high-resolution satellite images. 
War-weary villagers in the northern province of Kunduz in Afghanistan have been left to battle the Taliban alone. In villages across Kunduz province, residents are forced to form their own local militias in a bid to protect their families and keep the Taliban at bay. Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, said his country must reach out to its "disenchanted brothers" in an effort to stabilise the war ravaged nation during his address to a one-day international conference on Afghanistan's future in London. Karzai and officials from more than 60 countries are meeting this week to examine ways to bring an end to nearly a decade of war in Afghanistan. Al Jazeera's David Chater reports on the security vacuum left behind by German troops and Afghan forces who have failed to protect local residents in Kunduz. [January, 28, 2010]
Sri Lanka's Mahinda Rajapakse has just won another term as president. That comes less than a year after the end of one of Asia's longest running civil wars. But how challenging will it be to address post-conflict concerns? And will this election solve all of Sri Lanka's many problems?
Day one of the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters is well underway There is a talented field fighting for the $415000 top prize. Al Jazeera's Joanna Gasiorowska reports from the Doha Golf Club.
California's governor has suggested relocating an estimated 20,000 prison inmates to Mexico as the state's overcrowded detention centers are adding to its financial problems amid an imminent bankruptcy. 
A NATO-led air strike in Afghanistan's northern province of Baghlan has killed up to 20 people. 
Rt's Priya Sridhar talks about Ben Bernankes re-appointment as Federal Reserve chairman even as many congressman crossed party lines to vote against him. Additionally, the average American is saying that Bernanke's policies have not helped them get out of this financial crisis.
Unidentified armed men have opened fire on a cleric outside a mosque in a Sunni neighborhood of Baghdad, killing him on the spot. 
I haven't donated to the Haitian relief effort for the same reason that I don't give money to homeless men on the street. Based on past experiences, I don't think the guy with the sign that reads "Need You're Help" is going to do anything constructive with the dollar I might give him. If I use history as my guide, I don't think the people of Haiti will do much with my money either.
Bangladesh has executed five ex-army officers convicted of killing the country's founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in an army coup 35 years ago. 
The death of Howard Zinn has prompted reflection on the historian, philosopher and activist. Best known for "A People's History of the United States," Zinn's thinking influenced a generation of Americans. His last published work was highly critical of Barack Obama, whom he predicted would have a failed presidency.
A convoy of troops from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has shot dead a Muslim cleric in the Afghan capital, Kabul. 
A Turkish high criminal court has sentenced an adolescent Kurdish girl to nearly eight years in prison on charges of hurling stones at police officers and chanting illegal slogans during a protest in the southeastern city of Batman. 
Delgates at an international conference on Afghanistan held in London have announced that Afghan forces could take over security in some provinces by the end of 2010. David Miliband, the UK foreign minister, also announced a new fund to allow the Afghan government to woo Taliban fighters away from the conflict. James Bays reports from London. (Jan 28, 2010)
Rescuers in Haiti have found a girl alive under the debris 15 days after the strong quake severely jolted and ruined large parts of the Caribbean island nation. 
The morning after Barack Obama's first State of the Union speech, Gerald Celente says that the speech was just political theater and that nothing has changed. And, as Ben Bernanke comes up for a reconfirmation vote, Celente says that the system needs to cleanse itself and stop propping up failure.
The US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan has claimed that more than two-thirds of the Taliban are not extremists. 
American historian, playwright and anti-Vietnam war activist Howard Zinn has died at the age of 87 in Santa Monica, California. 
How much has Israeli control of American foreign policy cost the people of the United States?
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has told delegates that his government is concerned about the civilian casualties of the war in his country. 
The Nigerian terrorist suspect accused of attempting to blow up a US airliner on Christmas Day had been arranged by the Israeli-owned 'International Consultants on Targeted Security' to perform a "walk around" without a passport in Amsterdam. 
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says imperialist powers are trying to seize control over the energy resources of the Middle East. 
The pressure from the Islamic world to duplicate the Rudolf Expert Report and adopt its findings is growing from day to day, and van Pelt wants to hinder official state investigations at all costs.
By the end of this year, Afghanistan will control the security in some of its provinces, and within five years - its whole territory. That pledge was made at a 70-nation conference on the future of the war-torn country. Among the issues discussed, was a plan to tempt Taliban fighters to leave the insurgency and take up civilian jobs. But the former presidential candidate in Afghanistan, Abdullah Abdullah thinks - reintegrating the militants into the system is a big illusion.
Barack Obama, the US president, has delivered his first state of the union address. Afghanistan and Iraq were mentioned, but the main focus was getting the US economy back on its feet. Speaking to Al Jazeera, Spencer Ackerman, a senior reporter at the Washington Independent, said that he was surprised at how little time was spent on addressing foreign policy. (Jan 28, 2010)
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How to get international troops out of Afghanistan, and replace them with local forces? That was the crunch issue being discussed at a 70 nation conference on the future of the war-torn country. One plan involves tempting Taliban fighters to leave the insurgency behind, and take up civilian jobs. Sabah Al-Mukhtar - President of the Arab Lawyers Association in London - says the attempt to induce Western values in Afghan society is doomed to fail.
To help ongoing US-led military operations , Russia is ready to supply Iraq and Afghanistan with weapons and military hardware. That's according to the country's top military export company Anatoly Isaikin says some NATO forces already use Russia's weapons and that they're keen to continue working with the country in terms of arms supply. He also said Russia still considers Iran a valuable customer. This follows a delay in supplying Iran with the sophisticated S-300 missile defence systems.
RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank - The Palestinian Authority (PA) is using West Bank mosques as a new battleground in its political offensive against its opponents within Hamas as well as critics from its own Fatah party.
Catastrophe is oftentimes beyond the embrace of the human heart. Race may not be entirely beyond the reach of human temperament. Boxing can be fun. View "Lyin'" Simon Wiesenthal: 
RT takes you to the region that's home to more than thirty ethnic groups, and is said to have given the world the famous Russian dish, Pelmeni. rt's correspondent Igor Ogorodnev has the story with an authentic Siberian flavour.
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