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Turkey's Guilty Conscience

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Foreign Policy - By Christian Caryl - Oct. 13 (Special Report) - One of the world's thorniest historical conflicts is on the verge of being solved. But long-term peace between Turkey and Armenia might be as hard to achieve as a lasting Middle East truce.

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Decline of a tribe: and then there were five

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - By The Huffington Post News Editors - Oct. 12 (News Report) - They are the last survivors: all that's left of a once-vibrant civilisation which created its own religion and language, and gave special names to everything from the creatures of the rainforest to the stars of the night sky. Just five people represent the entire remaining population of the Akuntsu, an ancient Amazonian tribe which a generation ago boasted several hundred members, but has been destroyed by a tragic mixture of hostility and neglect.

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Sudan's simmering struggle

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Times - By Austin Bay - Oct. 03 (Special Report) - The "third civil war" would be as vicious as the last, but given current political conditions, it could rapidly expand beyond Sudan and become a regional war involving several other impoverished, fragile states in East Africa - a war of the poor creating greater poverty and anarchy.

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Goldstone report: Israel's failings

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By George Bisharat - Sep. 19 (Opinion) - Will Israel's decades-long impunity from international law finally come to an end? That is the question facing the international community in the aftermath of the just-released Goldstone report.

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Darfur rebels accuse Sudan army of attacks

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - Sep. 18 (News Report) - Darfur rebels accused Sudanese government forces of attacking their positions on Thursday and Friday, weeks after a senior peacekeeper said the region was no longer in a state of war. The reports came after a period of relative calm in the region, where more than six years of fighting has driven an estimated 2.7 million from their homes. Commanders from an arm of the rebel Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) told Reuters Sudan's army, backed up by allied militias, launched ground and air attacks on their positions in territory around the North Darfur area of Korma.

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Fear was no excuse to condone torture

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Miami Herald - By Charles C. Krulak, Joseph P. Hoar - Sep. 15 (Opinion) - In the fear that followed the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Americans were told that defeating Al Qaeda would require us to ``take off the gloves.'' As a former commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps and a retired commander-in-chief of U.S. Central Command, we knew that was a recipe for disaster. But we never imagined that we would feel duty-bound to publicly denounce a vice president of the United States, a man who has served our country for many years. In light of the irresponsible statements recently made by former Vice President Dick Cheney, however, we feel we must repudiate his dangerous ideas -- and his scare tactics.

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Israel Authorizes 455 New Settlement Units

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Common Dreams - Sep. 07 (News) - Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has authorized the construction of more than 450 new housing units in settlements in the occupied West Bank, his ministry said in a statement on Monday.

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New Facebook iPhone App ’Pretty Much Done’

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By MG Siegler - Aug. 08 (News Report) - As one of the most popular applications on Apple’s popular iPhone platform, a lot of users are eagerly awaiting the next version of the app. And that wait is almost over.

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Symbol of Unhealed Congo - Male Rape Victims

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Jeffrey Gettleman - Aug. 05 (News Report) - For years, the thickly forested hills and clear, deep lakes of eastern Congo have been a reservoir of atrocities. Now, it seems, there is another growing problem: men raping men. According to Oxfam, Human Rights Watch, United Nations officials and several Congolese aid organizations, the number of men who have been raped has risen sharply in recent months, a consequence of joint Congo-Rwanda military operations against rebels that have uncapped an appalling level of violence against civilians.

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Uighur leader says 10,000 went missing in one night

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Chisa Fujioka - Jul. 30 (News Report) - "The nearly 10,000 (Uighur) people who were at the protest, they disappeared from Urumqi in one night," Kadeer told a news conference in Tokyo through an interpreter. "If they are dead, where are their bodies? If they are detained, where are they?"

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The Other End of the Abu Ghraib Camera

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By William Quinn - Jul. 25 (Opinion) - DESPITE demands by human rights advocates that photos documenting abuse of military detainees be made public, the Senate last month passed legislation to block their release. The legislation is now before the House. President Obama supports these efforts. This is all good news. Classifying the photos would help protect those detainees’ basic rights to dignity and privacy.

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You can Stop War

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

current.com - By Jon Raymond - Jul. 22 (Opinion) - We stopped the Vietnam war, purportedly with two pictures, Execution by Eddie Adams, and Nick Út's photo of a naked girl running with her clothes burned off by napalm. We were so outraged by these photos that we pressured our government to get out of Vietnam.

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The Dark Side of Climate Change: It's Already Too Late, Cap and Trade Is a Scam, and Only the Few Will Survive

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Alexander Zaitchik - Jul. 08 (Investigative Report) - the time is nigh to accept that a massive culling of the human race is around the corner.

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Government asks to dismiss Geronimo lawsuit

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Associated Press - June 21, 2009 4:35 PM ET - Jun. 21 (News Report) - NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - The U.S. Justice Department is asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by descendants of Apache leader Geronimo, whose remains were purported to be stolen by members of a secret society at Yale University.

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Yo, America, The Jig is Up

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

stopwar.lafilmonline.com - By Jon Raymomd - Jun. 14 (Opinion) - The United States of America was founded as a racist, sexist, classicist, bigoted nation. From the start, our government only recognized wealthy white male landowners as having a voice in government. Yet their words in the Declaration of Independence and in the Constitution declared all “men” as equal.

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Peruvian Police Accused of Massacring Indigenous Protesters in Amazon Jungle

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Gregor MacLennan, Amy Goodman - Jun. 08 (News Report) - Dozens of people are estimated to have been killed in clashes between police and indigenous activists protesting oil and mining projects in the northern Peruvian Amazonian province of Bagua. Peruvian authorities have declared a military curfew, and troops are patrolling towns in the Amazon jungle. Authorities say up to twenty-two policemen have been killed, and two remain missing. The indigenous community says at least forty people, including three children, were killed by the police this weekend.

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Obameter: Did Obama Break His Promise to Armenians?

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Katie Connolly - Apr. 28 (Opinion) - The bottom line is this: even though he says his views haven't changed and yes, his previous views did clearly articulate his acknowledgment of the genocide, his campaign promise was that as President he would acknowledge the Armenian genocide.

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The Storm Widens

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Dahr Jamail - Apr. 06 (News Report) - Just days after the aforementioned detention, Iraqi forces arrested two more Sahwa guards in the al-Dora neighborhood of Baghdad, which is controlled by their forces. In an article for Truthout last week, I voiced my concerns of these government attacks against Sahwa forces spreading. I am surprised at the rapidity at which this is occurring now, as this trend, if it continues, appears almost certain to spark a dramatic flare of sectarian violence in the capital city.

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The silence surrounding Sri Lanka

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By Arundhati Roy - Mar. 31 (News Report) - THE HORROR that is unfolding in Sri Lanka becomes possible because of the silence that surrounds it. There is almost no reporting in the international press - or in the mainstream media in India, where I live - about what is happening. From the little information that is filtering through, it looks as though the Sri Lankan government is using the propaganda of "the war on terror" as a fig leaf to dismantle any semblance of democracy in the country and commit unspeakable crimes against the Tamil people.

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Iraqi Army Turns on 'Sons of Iraq'

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Leila Fadel - Mar. 30 (News Report) - The U.S.-backed Iraqi government has struck against the “Sons of Iraq,” Sunni paramilitary fighters who have taken U.S. money to turn against al-Qaeda in Iraq and who now believe they are being betrayed as the Americans prepare to withdraw.

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Death Squad Leader Was Top Cia Agent

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

sundayherald.com - By Gabriel Ronay - Mar. 22 (News Report) - THE LATE President Milosevic's secret police chief and organiser of Serb death squads during the genocidal ethnic cleansing of disintegrating Yugoslavia was the United States' top CIA agent in Belgrade, according to the independent Belgrade Radio B92. The claim that from 1992 until the end of the decade, Jovica Stanisic, head of Serbia's murderous DB Secret Police, was regularly informing his CIA handlers of the thinking in Milosevic's inner circle has shocked the region.

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As Chinese Troops Seal off Tibet, Dalai Lama Warns Tibetan Identity 'Near Extinction'

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Antoaneta Bezlova - Mar. 13 (News Report) - In the run-up to the anniversary, Beijing launched a blitz propaganda campaign designed to drum up support for its policies of heavy investment and tight political control in Tibet. An exhibit showcasing the "democratic reforms" brought by China into Tibet opened at the Cultural Palace of Nationalities in Beijing on Feb. 24, while the China Central Television (CCTV) aired a three-part documentary featuring Tibet’s evolution from "autocracy to democracy," according to the People’s Daily.

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Timidity Derails Obama Intel Choice

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Ray McGovern - Mar. 11 (Opinion) - Foreign policy analyst Chris Nelson described the imbroglio as a reflection of the “deadly power game on what level of support for controversial Israeli government policies is a ‘requirement’ for U.S. public office.” Before the flip-flop on Freeman was announced, Nelson warned, “If Obama surrenders to the critics and orders Blair to rescind the Freeman appointment, it is difficult to see how he can properly exercise leverage, when needed, in his conduct of policy in the Middle East. That, literally, is how the experts see the stakes in the fight now under way” — the fight that is now over.

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Charles Freeman fails the loyalty test

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Mar. 10 (Opinion) - In the U.S., you can advocate torture, illegal spying, and completely optional though murderous wars and be appointed to the highest positions. But you can't, apparently, criticize Israeli actions too much or question whether America's blind support for Israel should be re-examined.

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An Arrest Warrant for al-Bashir, Could Bush Be Next?

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Jamal Dajani - Mar. 06 (News Analysis) - The court's decision grimly spelled out the suffering of the people of Darfur, a history full of murder, torture, rape, pillage and deliberate attacks on civilians. Could the ICC's decision set a precedent?

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