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Palestinians women react during the funeral of 12 year old Ayoub Assalya killed in an Israeli airstrike in Jabaliya Refugee Camp, in Gaza Strip, Sunday, March 11, 2012.
photo: AP / Hatem Moussa
Gaza violence spikes as death toll hits 18
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Three Palestinians were killed in new Israeli air raids in Gaza on Sunday, raising the death toll to 18, as militants fired more rockets into the Jewish state. Israeli war planes carried out four strikes on Sunday morning, killing three people, including a school boy and a 60-year-old man who medics said was a civilian. The bloodshed erupted on... Pin It

An elderly Afghan man sits next to the covered body of a person who was allegedly killed by a U.S. service member, in a minibus in Panjwai, Kandahar province south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, March 11, 2012.
photo: AP / Allauddin Khan
U.S. Troop Opens Fire on Afghan Civilians
read more Time Magazine
(KABUL, Afghanistan) — A U.S. service member walked out of his base in southern Afghanistan before dawn Sunday and started shooting Afghan civilians, Afghan and NATO officials said. There were widely varying reports of casualties. People were killed in the shooting spree in Kandahar province, Gov. Tooryalai Wesa said, though he did not provide... Pin It

A supporter of Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, talks to British police officers outside the Supreme Court in central London, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012.
photo: AP / Lefteris Pitarakis
The Dirty War on Wikileaks is Now Trial by Media in Sweden
read more Zcom
War by media, says current military doctrine, is as important as the battlefield. This is because the real enemy is the public at home, whose manipulation and deception are essential for starting an unpopular colonial war. Like the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, attacks on Iran and Syria require a steady drip-effect on readers’ and... Pin It

File - A local woman takes advantage of the World Food Programme (WFP)’s food-and-cash for work programme in the village of Dan Kada, Maradai Region, Niger.  Prices at Niger's food markets are spiking in the aftermath of a patchy harvest, causing concern among food security experts that many could soon go hungry.
photo: UN / WFP/Phil Behan
Agency Calls for $69.8 Million for Drought-Stricken Sahel
read more Scoop
Sunday, 11 March 2012, 12:03 pm Press Release: United Nations UN Food Agency Calls for $69.8 Million for Drought-Stricken Sahel New York, Mar 9 2012 5:10PM The United Nations food agency today called for $69.8 million in additional funding to prevent a full-blown food and nutrition crisis from unfolding in Africa’s Sahel region. In a news... Pin It

File - In this Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010 photo, A Pakistani health worker, right, marks a child's finger after giving him polio vaccine in Peshawar, Pakistan.
photo: AP / Mohammad Sajjad
Pakistan, U.S. and Medicinal Militarism
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling As more reports fester in the already infectious and contagious sores of the Global War On Terrorism, namely that the CIA used a Pakistani doctor to help track Osama bin Laden by setting up a fake polio vaccination program, it appears the United States will have to change its modus operandi from... Pin It

Free Syrian Army fighters take cover during fierce fighting against government troops in Idlib, north Syria, Saturday, March 10, 2012.
photo: AP / Rodrigo Abd
Assad promises Annan to back any 'honest' peace bid
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad promised international envoy Kofi Annan on Saturday that he would back any "honest" peace bid but warned dialogue would fail if "terrorist groups" remained. In Cairo, meanwhile, Russian and Arab foreign ministers called for an end to the violence in Syria "whatever its source," as they struggled to find common... Pin It

In this Monday, Feb. 20, 2012 photo, Pakistani Army soldiers with the 20th Lancers Armored Regiment gather before a patrol atop the 8000-foot mountain near their outpost, Kalpani Base, in Pakistan's Dir province on the Pakistan-Afghan border. Kalpani is on the front line in the 10-year war against militant Islamists
photo: AP / Anja Niedringhaus
Pakistani Troops Feel West Undervalues Their War
read more National Public Radio
KALPANI BASE, Pakistan (AP) — The wind was howling and the snow outside their bullet-pocked bunker lay knee-deep as the men of the 20th Lancer armored regiment bedded down for the night, nearly 2,500 meters (8,000 feet) up a mountain on one of the world's most inhospitable borders. They cheered themselves up by singing songs. Their commander gazed... Pin It

Opposition protesters with their flags gathered in center of Moscow during a rally, Russia, Saturday, March 10, 2012.
photo: AP / Ivan Sekretarev
Putin Opponents Rally ‘For Fair Elections’
read more Novosti
MOSCOW, March 10 (RIA Novosti) – Thousands of opponents of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin demonstrated in central Moscow on Saturday in protest at recent presidential elections won by the Russian leader which they claim were unfair. Organizers of the rally, held under the banner “For Fair Elections” used in other mass opposition demonstrations... Pin It

In this March 23, 2011 photograph, a U.S. military guard watches over detainee cells inside the Parwan detention facility near Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan.
photo: AP / Dar Yasin
U.S. to transfer control of detainees to Afghanistan
read more Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
KABUL -- U.S. officials have agreed to gradually transfer control of most of their detainees here to the Afghan government over the next six months, U.S. and Afghan officials announced Friday, possibly eliminating an irritant in Washington's strained relationship with Kabul as the U.S. military mission starts winding down. The step appeared to... Pin It

Kofi Annan, Secretary-General, United Nations (1997-2006); Member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum; Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2009, captured during the session 'Fresh Solutions for Food Security' at the Annual Meeting 2009 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 30, 2009..
photo: Creative Commons
Annan to meet Assad, seeking end to Syria violence
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BEIRUT - UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan meets President Bashar Al Assad on Saturday to press for a political solution to Syria's year-long uprising and bloody crackdown in which thousands of people have been killed. Annan's talks in Damascus come a day after activists said Assad's forces killed at least 68 people as they sought to extend control... Pin It


Was the Indian Bomb a False Flag Attack? As we noted last month, the bombing in India – blamed...
The revelations were in documents released on Friday. The minutes of the government's crisis...

IAEA Fact-Finding Mission Assesses Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant
Yogi Berra supposedly said, "It's tough making predictions, especially about the future." He was right. However, there is an out for forecasters trying to predict long-term medical consequences of the Fukushima nuclear facility accident: The final...
photo: UN / IAEA/Greg Webb
Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan gives a press conference in a Nairobi hotel, Kenya, after a day of meetings with his successor Ban Ki-moon and opposition leader Raila Odinga, Friday, Feb. 1, 2008. Rival parties in Kenya said Friday they had agreed to take immediate action to end violence after a month of deadly turmoil over a disputed presidential election. The two sides signed a four-point agenda that said they would complete talks within 15 days on measures to end the political crisis.
Dubai: Syrian President Bashar Al Assad told UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan on Saturday that no political solution was possible in Syria while "terrorist" groups were destabilising the country. "Syria is ready to make a success...
photo: AP Photo / Bernat Armangue, Pool
Mississippi Employment Security Commission interviewer Greyce Powell prepares an unemployment insurance policy form for a jobless client, Jan. 13, 2003 in Jackson, Miss. Mississippi and Oregon had the biggest unemployment increases for April 2003 and 2004, according to a regional jobs report released Friday, May 21, 2004, by the U.S. Department of Labor. Mississippi's unemployment rate jumped 1.9 percent while Oregon took a 1.8 percent hit. Mississippi has a 4.6 percent unemployment rate, according to the Mississippi Employment Security Commissio
President Barack Obama seized on news of another burst of job growth as proof the U.S. economy is rebounding on his watch from a disastrous recession. The struggling economy has haunted the president as he seeks a second four-year term in November,...
photo: AP / Rogelio Solis
Vladimir Putin
MOSCOW -- Excessive cheerfulness is not a trait generally associated with Russians, and Russian intellectuals in particular, which is one reason this city's three-month-old opposition movement has been so unusual. The rallies that began in December...
photo: Creative Commons / Scanyaro
Palestinians pray next to the bodies of Kamal al-Nairab, the leader of an armed Palestinian faction, and other members and child during their funeral in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip August 19, 2011. An Israeli air strike killed the leader of an armed Palestinian faction, a top lieutenant, three other members in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, the group said, hours after Israel blamed gunmen from the territory for cross-border attacks.  (Photo By Ahmed Deeb/WN)
AFP - Twelve Palestinians, most of them fighters, were killed and at least 20 wounded in a series of Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medics said early Saturday. The Israeli raids came as Palestinians fired dozens of rockets and...
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb
A Chinese woman, center, looks at the vegetables she bought at a market in Beijing Friday, March 9, 2012.
China swung into a huge trade deficit of $31.48 billion in February as oil imports rocketed, according to the latest customs data. China is normally a net exporter of goods -- it recorded a surplus of $27.28 billion in January -- but total monthly...
photo: AP / Andy Wong
U.S. Army Spc. Rufo Lujan-Espinosa, a unit supply specialist with the 10th Support Group, looks at tsunami damage as he leads a fuel convoy into Aichi prefecture, Japan, April 8, 2011, during Operation Tomodachi.
It began with the huge quake that struck off the coast of the city of 71,000 at 2:46pm. Less than an hour later, Mr Sakurai was on the roof of the city office, squinting toward the sea about six miles away. "We could see this huge cloud of dust...
photo: US Army / Sgt. Derek Kuhn

Israeli strike 'kills Palestinian boy' in new Gaza assault; updated 11 Mar 2012; published 11 Mar 2012
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Israeli strike 'kills Palestinian boy' in new Gaza assault
Jakarta Globe 11 Mar 2012, Three Palestinians were killed in new Israeli air raids in Gaza on Sunday, raising the death toll to 18, as militants fired more rockets into the Jewish state. Israeli war planes carried out four strikes on Sunday morning, killing three people, including a school boy and a 60-year-old man who medics said was a civilian. The bloodshed erupted on...

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Kandahar Shooting Gen. Jacobson Interview.mov; updated 11 Mar 2012; published 11 Mar 2012
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Kandahar Shooting Gen. Jacobson Interview.mov
Time Magazine 11 Mar 2012, (KABUL, Afghanistan) — A U.S. service member walked out of his base in southern Afghanistan before dawn Sunday and started shooting Afghan civilians, Afghan and NATO officials said. There were widely varying reports of casualties. People were killed in the shooting spree in Kandahar province, Gov. Tooryalai Wesa said, though he did not provide...

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WikiLeaks' Assange Continues Extradition Fight; updated 26 Feb 2012; published 05 Dec 2011
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WikiLeaks' Assange Continues Extradition Fight
Zcom 11 Mar 2012, War by media, says current military doctrine, is as important as the battlefield. This is because the real enemy is the public at home, whose manipulation and deception are essential for starting an unpopular colonial war. Like the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, attacks on Iran and Syria require a steady drip-effect on readers’ and...

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Sahel Drought; updated 08 Mar 2012; published 15 Feb 2012
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Sahel Drought
Scoop 10 Mar 2012, Sunday, 11 March 2012, 12:03 pm Press Release: United Nations UN Food Agency Calls for $69.8 Million for Drought-Stricken Sahel New York, Mar 9 2012 5:10PM The United Nations food agency today called for $69.8 million in additional funding to prevent a full-blown food and nutrition crisis from unfolding in Africa’s Sahel region. In a news...

Pakistan: US Accused of Using Drones to Target Rescue Workers and Funerals; updated 06 Mar 2012; published 06 Feb 2012
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Pakistan: US Accused of Using Drones to Target Rescue Workers and Funerals
WorldNews.com 10 Mar 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling As more reports fester in the already infectious and contagious sores of the Global War On Terrorism, namely that the CIA used a Pakistani doctor to help track Osama bin Laden by setting up a fake polio vaccination program, it appears the United States will have to change its modus operandi from...

Envoy Annan meets Syria's Assad to call for ceasefire; updated 10 Mar 2012; published 10 Mar 2012
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Envoy Annan meets Syria's Assad to call for ceasefire
Jakarta Globe 10 Mar 2012, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad promised international envoy Kofi Annan on Saturday that he would back any "honest" peace bid but warned dialogue would fail if "terrorist groups" remained. In Cairo, meanwhile, Russian and Arab foreign ministers called for an end to the violence in Syria "whatever its source," as they struggled to find common...

AJE Exclusive: Pakistan Taliban leader plays waiting game; updated 07 Mar 2012; published 02 Jan 2012
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AJE Exclusive: Pakistan Taliban leader plays waiting game
National Public Radio 10 Mar 2012, KALPANI BASE, Pakistan (AP) — The wind was howling and the snow outside their bullet-pocked bunker lay knee-deep as the men of the 20th Lancer armored regiment bedded down for the night, nearly 2,500 meters (8,000 feet) up a mountain on one of the world's most inhospitable borders. They cheered themselves up by singing songs. Their commander gazed...

Raw Video: Anti-Putin Rally in Moscow; updated 11 Mar 2012; published 10 Mar 2012
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Raw Video: Anti-Putin Rally in Moscow
Novosti 10 Mar 2012, MOSCOW, March 10 (RIA Novosti) – Thousands of opponents of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin demonstrated in central Moscow on Saturday in protest at recent presidential elections won by the Russian leader which they claim were unfair. Organizers of the rally, held under the banner “For Fair Elections” used in other mass opposition demonstrations...

Detainee Provision: Martial Law v. Exec Power; updated 27 Jan 2012; published 29 Nov 2011
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Detainee Provision: Martial Law v. Exec Power
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 10 Mar 2012, KABUL -- U.S. officials have agreed to gradually transfer control of most of their detainees here to the Afghan government over the next six months, U.S. and Afghan officials announced Friday, possibly eliminating an irritant in Washington's strained relationship with Kabul as the U.S. military mission starts winding down. The step appeared to...

Envoy Annan meets Syria's Assad to call for ceasefire; updated 10 Mar 2012; published 10 Mar 2012
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Envoy Annan meets Syria's Assad to call for ceasefire
Khaleej Times 10 Mar 2012, BEIRUT - UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan meets President Bashar Al Assad on Saturday to press for a political solution to Syria's year-long uprising and bloody crackdown in which thousands of people have been killed. Annan's talks in Damascus come a day after activists said Assad's forces killed at least 68 people as they sought to extend control...

Election cam; updated 10 Mar 2012; published 10 Mar 2012
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Election cam
France24 10 Mar 2012, AFP - Slovaks vote in an early general election Saturday, with the left-wing party of ex-premier Robert Fico eyeing victory as a corruption scandal has right-wing rivals fighting for political survival. Opinion polls showed Fico's Smer social democrats poised for power in the wake of the so-called "Gorilla" corruption scandal, which has syphoned...

Protests in Greece as cabinet does debt deal; updated 24 Feb 2012; published 11 Feb 2012
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Protests in Greece as cabinet does debt deal
The Daily Telegraph Australia 09 Mar 2012, PRIVATE investor acceptance of a Greek debt swap is a historic chance to stabilise Greece officials said, but analysts warned that this is not the end of the Greek drama. The head of Eurogroup eurozone finance ministers Jean-Claude Juncker said the "elements were now in place" to proceed with final approval for a second bailout for...

Iran's Election Ayatollah Khamenei Orders Probe, Protests Spark for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Mir Hossein Mousavi ABC News; updated 04 Feb 2012; published 15 Jun 2009
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Iran's Election Ayatollah Khamenei Orders Probe, Protests Spark for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Mir Hossein Mousavi ABC News
Gulf News 09 Mar 2012, It was not Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s finest hour. For years he was described as the protege of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, but now the 56-year-old president has been cast out by Iran’s most powerful man. Most of his supporters running for the country’s legislative elections have been trounced. They were defeated by...

Greece avoids default, but for how long?; updated 11 Mar 2012; published 09 Mar 2012
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Greece avoids default, but for how long?
Irish Times 09 Mar 2012, Greece has successfully closed a bond swap offer aimed at reducing its colossal debt pile and averting a chaotic default that would pitch the euro zone into a fresh crisis. Officials said take-up had clearly surpassed the minimum threshold required for the deal to go through, despite early fears that it could fall apart and derail a broader rescue...





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