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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gestures as he delivers his speech at a rally to mark the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution that toppled the country's pro-Western monarchy and brought Islamic clerics to power, Tehran, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012.
photo: AP / Vahid Salemi
Openly Lying Us Into War With Iran
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Picture: Kenneth Pollack This is from p. 84-5 in Which Path to Persia?: Options for a New American Strategy toward Iran, a June, 2009 book edited and co-authored by Kenneth Pollack of the Brookings Institution: ...absent a clear Iranian act of aggression, American airstrikes against Iran would be unpopular in the region and...

In this file photo made June 27, 2006, reviewed by a U.S. Department of Defense official, U.S. military guards walk within Camp Delta military-run prison, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba.
photo: AP / Brennan Linsley
Guantanamo detainee Majid Khan to enter plea deal
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The first "high value" prisoner held at the US's Guantanamo Bay detention centre is expected to plead guilty at a war crimes tribunal. Pakistani Majid Khan, who had lived in the US, is set to admit to terror offences in exchange for leniency. He faces five war crimes charges, including conspiring with al-Qaeda, murder and attempted murder. The...

A protesting firefighter holds a Greek flag and flares during a demonstration against the Greek government's austerity measures outside the Greek Parliament in Athens, on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012
photo: AP / Petros Giannakouris
Greek unions stage walkouts after new budget cuts
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AFP - Greek unions on Wednesday staged walkouts as part of Europe-wide anti-austerity demonstrations, hours after parliament approved fresh budget cuts linked to a new eurozone bailout. The main labour groups, private-sector GSEE and public-sector ADEDY, began a nationwide three-hour work stoppage from midday (1000 GMT) ahead of a demonstration in...

In this Tuesday, March 15, 2011 file photo, Toyota Yaris compact sedans lie damaged at Sendai port, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, following a devastating earthquake and tsunami.
photo: AP / Koji Sasahara
Japan's tsunami victims: healed but still scarred
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A year ago, a desperate young mother stood amid the ruins of her devastated city wrapped in a blanket as she scoured tsunami wreckage for her missing son. Twelve months on, Yuko Sugimoto and her family are reunited and living in a temporary home, but the scars from the catastrophe still remain. "The disaster made me realise it's a miracle that...

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, speaks to supporters at his election watch party after winning the Michigan primary in Novi, Mich., Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012.
photo: AP / Gerald Herbert
Romney wins Michigan and Arizona
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Mitt Romney's tentative hold on the status of GOP front-runner received a significant boost with victory in Michigan, where he won his native state and fought off a spirited challenge from Rick Santorum. Combined with a resounding triumph in the winner-take-all state of Arizona, Romney extended his lead in the delegate race and assuaged concerns of...

Villagers carry the body of Ghassan Ali, 40, who was killed during clashes between the Free Syrian Army and the government forces during his funeral in Sarmin, north of Syria, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012.
photo: AP / Rodrigo Abd
7,500 killed in Syria, UN says, as new resolution tried
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AMMAN - Syrian President Bashar Al Assad could be classified as a war criminal, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said as the United Nations announced more than 7,500 civilians had been killed by his forces since the start of the revolt. At least 25 people were killed in the shelling of opposition strongholds by Syrian forces on Tuesday,...

Fire trucks and emergency vehicles are parked near the Pentagon Building as firefighters conduct rescue operation hours after American Airlines Fight 77 was piloted by terrorists into the building, during the September 11, 2001 attacks. (Substandard image
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Pentagon: Some 9/11 victims' remains dumped in landfill
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WASHINGTON - Some cremated remains of people who were killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were disposed of in a landfill, the Pentagon revealed Tuesday, tracing the problems with the handling of remains at Dover Air Force Base back more than a decade. A report by a panel that was tasked with reviewing procedures at Dover described "gross...

Two Occupy London protesters look on from the middle of the road outside St Paul's Cathedral in London after bailiffs moved in to remove tents from the Occupy London camp, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012.
photo: AP / Sang Tan
Occupy London protesters evicted from St Paul's site
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Some of those who decided to stay at the campsite in defiance of a High Court order built barricades, while others sat on the steps of Sir Christopher Wren's cathedral as the paraphernalia of their occupation, which has gone on for nearly four-and-a-half months, was cleared into rubbish trucks. There were minor scuffles as police and bailiffs...

A Palestinian throws a shoe, top center, at the convoy of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as it enters the Erez border crossing between Israel and Gaza, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012.
photo: AP / Hatem Moussa
Are Palestinians Victims of Terror and Displaced Guilt?
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling It was on February 29, 1948, that 28 British soldiers were killed as a mine exploded under the Cairo-Haifa train. Lehi, also known as the Stern Gang, a Zionist terrorist group, claimed responsibility. But the Cairo-Haifa attack was only one of several acts of terrorism that Israeli Zionists employed....

An undated picture made available by the Costa Crociere press office showing the Costa Allegra cruise ship. The Italian coast guard says a fire has broken out on an the Costa Allegra cruise ship off the Seychelles islands, Monday, Feb. 27, 2012, and the ship is adrift, but the passengers are safe.
photo: AP / Costa Crociere
Costa cruise ship adrift off Seychelles
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AFP - An Italian cruise ship from the same fleet as the tragedy-struck Costa Concordia was adrift on Tuesday in pirate-infested seas off the Seychelles with no power and with more than 1,000 people on board. A blaze in the engine room of the Costa Allegra saw the liner stranded in the dangerous and choppy Indian Ocean seas and it was forced to make...


In this Friday, Dec. 23, 2011 photo released by the Korean Central News Agency and distributed in Tokyo, Monday, Dec. 26, 2011 by the Korea News Service, Kim Jong Un, right, late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest known son and successor, visits Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang, North Korea, to pay respect to his father.
The United States said on Wednesday that North Korea has agreed to halt its nuclear programme and allow back UN inspectors, in a surprise breakthrough soon after the communist state's veteran leader died. North Koreaan leader kim jong-un and...
photo: AP / Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service
 Iraqis carry a coffin with the body of their dead relative in front of al-Kindi hospital, following two synchronized explosions that occurred in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2006. Suspected insurgents set off two bombs in a main square of central Bag
CAR bombs in Iraq killed six people yesterday as authorities released figures showing nearly 70,000 people died in violence from 2004 to 2011. The latest bloodshed comes a month before Baghdad hosts an Arab summit, the first such non-emergency Arab...
photo: AP/Karim Kadim
File - A North Korean soldier observes the South at the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, north of Seoul.
WASHINGTON — The United States said Wednesday North Korea has agreed to suspend nuclear activities and accept a moratorium on nuclear and long-range missile tests, in a breakthrough in negotiations with the secretive communist nation. The...
photo: US Army / Edward N. Johnson
Pakistani protesters burn tires to condemn the reported burning of Qurans in Afghanistan by U.S. troops, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012
KABUL, Afghanistan — Three major investigations were under way on Wednesday into the Koran burning at Bagram Air Base by the American military last week, the event that plunged Afghanistan into days of deadly protests claiming as many as 30...
photo: AP / Mohammad Sajjad
Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi talks to journalists during a press conference at her National League for Democracy party's headquarters Monday, Nov. 14, 2011, in Yangon, Myanmar.
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar's election commission has rejected a challenge to the parliamentary candidacy of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and confirmed her place on the ballot. Nyan Win, a spokesman for Suu Kyi's National League for...
photo: AP / Khin Maung Win
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. listens at right as Republican presidential candidate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at a Boys and Girls Club, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012, in Salem, N.H.
Dual victories give Mitt Romney a boost over Rick Santorum in increasingly bitter race for Republican presidential nomination Mitt Romney greets supporters after winning the Arizona and Michigan primaries. Photograph: Jeff Kowalsky/EPA...
photo: AP / Matt Rourke
Patten - Libya
With the Iraq war ending and troops preparing to withdraw from Afghanistan, US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta today told law makers that the country was gearing up for a smaller and leaner force which would be technologically advanced. "We knew that...
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'Israel has no capability to attack Iran'; updated 29 Feb 2012; published 25 Feb 2012
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'Israel has no capability to attack Iran'
GlobalResearch 29 Feb 2012, Picture: Kenneth Pollack This is from p. 84-5 in Which Path to Persia?: Options for a New American Strategy toward Iran, a June, 2009 book edited and co-authored by Kenneth Pollack of the Brookings Institution: ...absent a clear Iranian act of aggression, American airstrikes against Iran would be unpopular in the region and...

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Guantanamo detention centre is 10 years old; updated 15 Feb 2012; published 11 Jan 2012
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Guantanamo detention centre is 10 years old
BBC News 29 Feb 2012, The first "high value" prisoner held at the US's Guantanamo Bay detention centre is expected to plead guilty at a war crimes tribunal. Pakistani Majid Khan, who had lived in the US, is set to admit to terror offences in exchange for leniency. He faces five war crimes charges, including conspiring with al-Qaeda, murder and attempted murder. The...

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Greek Police, Firemen Rally to Protest Austerity Cuts; updated 29 Feb 2012; published 29 Feb 2012
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Greek Police, Firemen Rally to Protest Austerity Cuts
France24 29 Feb 2012, AFP - Greek unions on Wednesday staged walkouts as part of Europe-wide anti-austerity demonstrations, hours after parliament approved fresh budget cuts linked to a new eurozone bailout. The main labour groups, private-sector GSEE and public-sector ADEDY, began a nationwide three-hour work stoppage from midday (1000 GMT) ahead of a demonstration in...

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Japan Earthquake: Helicopter aerial view video of giant tsunami waves; updated 29 Feb 2012; published 11 Mar 2011
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Japan Earthquake: Helicopter aerial view video of giant tsunami waves
Yahoo Daily News 29 Feb 2012, A year ago, a desperate young mother stood amid the ruins of her devastated city wrapped in a blanket as she scoured tsunami wreckage for her missing son. Twelve months on, Yuko Sugimoto and her family are reunited and living in a temporary home, but the scars from the catastrophe still remain. "The disaster made me realise it's a miracle that...

Watch Mitt Romney's Speech on Michigan Primary Win: 'We Won by Enough'; updated 29 Feb 2012; published 29 Feb 2012
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Watch Mitt Romney's Speech on Michigan Primary Win: 'We Won by Enough'
The Los Angeles Times 29 Feb 2012, Mitt Romney's tentative hold on the status of GOP front-runner received a significant boost with victory in Michigan, where he won his native state and fought off a spirited challenge from Rick Santorum. Combined with a resounding triumph in the winner-take-all state of Arizona, Romney extended his lead in the delegate race and assuaged concerns of...

UN Boosts Syria Death Toll to 7500; updated 28 Feb 2012; published 28 Feb 2012
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UN Boosts Syria Death Toll to 7500
Khaleej Times 29 Feb 2012, AMMAN - Syrian President Bashar Al Assad could be classified as a war criminal, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said as the United Nations announced more than 7,500 civilians had been killed by his forces since the start of the revolt. At least 25 people were killed in the shelling of opposition strongholds by Syrian forces on Tuesday,...

Pentagon Dumps Soldiers Remains in Landfill & Man on The Street Ask About NDAA Passage; updated 20 Feb 2012; published 09 Dec 2011
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Pentagon Dumps Soldiers Remains in Landfill & Man on The Street Ask About NDAA Passage
Seattle Times 29 Feb 2012, WASHINGTON - Some cremated remains of people who were killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were disposed of in a landfill, the Pentagon revealed Tuesday, tracing the problems with the handling of remains at Dover Air Force Base back more than a decade. A report by a panel that was tasked with reviewing procedures at Dover described "gross...

St Paul's Occupy London protesters evicted by police; updated 28 Feb 2012; published 28 Feb 2012
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St Paul's Occupy London protesters evicted by police
The Independent 28 Feb 2012, Some of those who decided to stay at the campsite in defiance of a High Court order built barricades, while others sat on the steps of Sir Christopher Wren's cathedral as the paraphernalia of their occupation, which has gone on for nearly four-and-a-half months, was cleared into rubbish trucks. There were minor scuffles as police and bailiffs...

Ken O'Keefe Lecture at Middlesex University - Israeli Apartheid Week - February 23, 2012; updated 28 Feb 2012; published 27 Feb 2012
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Ken O'Keefe Lecture at Middlesex University - Israeli Apartheid Week - February 23, 2012
WorldNews.com 28 Feb 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling It was on February 29, 1948, that 28 British soldiers were killed as a mine exploded under the Cairo-Haifa train. Lehi, also known as the Stern Gang, a Zionist terrorist group, claimed responsibility. But the Cairo-Haifa attack was only one of several acts of terrorism that Israeli Zionists employed....

Costa Allegra cruise ship loses power after fire; updated 29 Feb 2012; published 28 Feb 2012
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Costa Allegra cruise ship loses power after fire
France24 28 Feb 2012, AFP - An Italian cruise ship from the same fleet as the tragedy-struck Costa Concordia was adrift on Tuesday in pirate-infested seas off the Seychelles with no power and with more than 1,000 people on board. A blaze in the engine room of the Costa Allegra saw the liner stranded in the dangerous and choppy Indian Ocean seas and it was forced to make...

Engdahl: Greek bailout terms remind of Hitler; updated 29 Feb 2012; published 27 Feb 2012
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Engdahl: Greek bailout terms remind of Hitler
Al Jazeera 28 Feb 2012, Ratings firm Standard & Poor's has declared Greece in "selective default" after banks agreed to write off more than half of their Greek debt holdings in a second EU bailout of the country. The rating was lowered from S&P's already junk-level "CC" grade for Greece, which has been seeking to avoid an outright default on its massive debt by...

Syria to hold referendum on new Constitution today; updated 27 Feb 2012; published 26 Feb 2012
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Syria to hold referendum on new Constitution today
Independent online (SA) 28 Feb 2012, Amman - Syrian artillery pounded rebel-held areas of Homs on Monday as President Bashar al-Assad's government announced that voters had overwhelmingly approved a new constitution in a referendum derided as a sham by his critics at home and abroad. While foreign powers argued over whether to arm the rebels, the Syrian Interior Ministry said the...

CARNAGE at OHIO Chardon High School SHOOTING 02/27/12; updated 28 Feb 2012; published 28 Feb 2012
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CARNAGE at OHIO Chardon High School SHOOTING 02/27/12
Austin American Statesman 27 Feb 2012, CHARDON, Ohio — A gunman opened fire inside a high school cafeteria at the start of the school day Monday, wounding five students, one of whom later died, authorities said. A suspect — believed to be a student — was arrested a short distance away. The suspect was taken into custody near his car about half a mile from the suburban...

Kenyan Air Force Kills Seven Somali Children in Jilib; updated 24 Jan 2012; published 15 Jan 2012
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Kenyan Air Force Kills Seven Somali Children in Jilib
The Australian 27 Feb 2012, IN A basic military clinic filled with wounded children, the sour smell of infection hung heavily in the still air. Smothering her son's screams with her palm, Mina pulled back a thin sheet to reveal the terrible scars on his torso left by an al-Qa'ida attack just metres from the pavement where she was sleeping with her refugee family. Also in this...





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