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Data collected over 28 years reveal striking link – and show that consuming fish or poultry...
In his book titled, "Freedom Next Time: Resisting the Empire," John Pilger discussed...
By Jed Babbin on 3.12.12 @ 6:10AM If not for Sen. Jeff Sessions, who would protect our...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon briefs the press following his remarks to the high-level segment of the COP17/CMP7 UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa, 6 December, 2011.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has urged Syria's president to swiftly end his regime's bloody crackdown and appealed to the divided UN Security Council to unite and help the country "pull back from the brink of a deeper catastrophe." The UN secretary general...
photo: UN / Mark Garten
Davao River - Pollution - River - Water Pollution
AFP - A global meeting on water opened in France on Monday with demands to provide billions of poor people with clean water and decent sanitation and address the spiralling demands of the future. "The challenges are huge and the problems are...
photo: WN / Janice Sabnal
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, delivers the opening address at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012.
GEIR MOULSON Associated Press= BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel made a one-day trip Monday to visit German troops in northern Afghanistan and offered President Hamid Karzai her condolences over the killing of 16 civilians by a U.S. solider, the...
photo: AP / Michel Euler
Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary-General and newly-appointed Joint UN-Arab League Special Envoy on Syria, speaks to reporters in a press encounter, 29 February, 2012.
BEIRUT - UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan has ended talks with President Bashar al-Assad and left Syria with little sign of progress on halting the country's growing political bloodshed. "I am optimistic for several reasons," Annan said in Damascus on...
photo: UN / Paulo Filgueiras
Aviation calls on EU leaders to fix carbon tax: FT
LONDON (Reuters) - Seven leading European aviation companies have written to European political leaders warning about the implications of a recently introduced EU carbon tax, the Financial Times reported on Monday. The signatories, which include...
photo: Creative Commons / Usuario:Barcex
A man sits in the back of a truck with the bodies of several men and a child allegedly killed by a U.S. service member in Panjwai, Kandahar province south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, March 11, 2012
AN American soldier was being interrogated today after opening fire on civilians in southern Afghanistan, killing at least 16, including children, in an attack described by Afghan president Hamid Karzai as "unforgivable." Nine children and...
photo: AP / Allauddin Khan
An eldery Japaneese man observes the area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in the port town of Kesennuma, Miyagi prefecture, Japan, on Monday, April 11, 2011. Exactly a month ago today a massive earthquake and tsunami ravaged Japan's northeastern coastal region.
RIKUZENTAKATA, JAPANPeople across Japan prayed and stood in silence Sunday to remember the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck the nation one year ago, killing 19,000 people and unleashing the world’s worst nuclear crisis in a...
photo: AP / Sergey Ponomarev

US soldier kills Afghan civilians in Kandahar; updated 12 Mar 2012; published 11 Mar 2012
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US soldier kills Afghan civilians in Kandahar
Independent online (SA) 12 Mar 2012, Kandahar - The massacre of 16 villagers by a United States soldier has triggered angry calls for an immediate American exit from Afghanistan as Washington tries to negotiate a long-term presence to keep the country from sliding into chaos again. Just days before Sunday's attack, Kabul and Washington had made significant progress in negotiations on...

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Clinton: UN Action to End Violence in Syria; updated 09 Mar 2012; published 01 Feb 2012
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Clinton: UN Action to End Violence in Syria
The Guardian 12 Mar 2012, EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press= UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and Russia clashed over Syria at the U.N. Monday after Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the divided Security Council to speak with one voice and help the Mideast nation "pull back from the brink of a deeper catastrophe." Washington and Moscow both called for an end to the...

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South Sudan struggles to help ethnic violence victims; updated 09 Feb 2012; published 08 Feb 2012
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South Sudan struggles to help ethnic violence victims
Graphic 12 Mar 2012, Hundreds of people are feared to have been killed in the latest of a series of ethnic clashes and cattle raids in South Sudan's Jonglei state. State Law Enforcement Minister Gabriel Duop Lam told the BBC that at least 200 people had been injured. The BBC's James Copnall, in Khartoum, says the figure...

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'Iran nuke show on air until foes dig up dirt'; updated 11 Mar 2012; published 07 Mar 2012
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'Iran nuke show on air until foes dig up dirt'
The Siasat Daily 12 Mar 2012, March 12: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has launched a fresh tirade against the West, saying the Islamic Republic does not fear military action, Iranian media reported on Sunday. “The Iranian nation doesn’t fear your bombs and warships and planes. Such weapons are worth nothing,” the Fars News Agency quoted him as saying on a visit to the...

US soldier kills Afghan civilians in Kandahar; updated 12 Mar 2012; published 11 Mar 2012
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US soldier kills Afghan civilians in Kandahar
Zeenews 12 Mar 2012, Kandahar: US officials warned on Monday of possible reprisal attacks after 16 Afghan villagers, mostly children and women, were killed in a likely "rogue" shooting by a US soldier that weakens the West's tenuous grip on a decade-old war. Washington has rushed to distance the shootings, blamed on a lone US soldier, from the efforts of the...

Peace (Bomb Blast) Sindhi Group Short Version.; updated 12 Mar 2012; published 12 Mar 2012
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Peace (Bomb Blast) Sindhi Group Short Version.
The Times of India 12 Mar 2012, SHARE AND DISCUSSTweet PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber attacked a funeral attended by an anti-Taliban politician in northwest...

Chavez returns; updated 21 Jul 2011; published 06 Jul 2011
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Chavez returns
Gulf News 11 Mar 2012, Caracas: Thousands of supporters of Venezuela President Hugo Chavez held demonstrations across the country Saturday to show support for their leader while he recovers from cancer surgery in Cuba. Demonstrators danced, beat drums and waved flags as they marched through the Venezuelan capital. Crowds of Chavez supporters also held simultaneous...

Massacre in Homs leaves 45 women, children dead, Syrian activists say; updated 12 Mar 2012; published 12 Mar 2012
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Massacre in Homs leaves 45 women, children dead, Syrian activists say
Jakarta Globe 11 Mar 2012, UN-Arab League peace envoy Kofi Annan left Damascus on Sunday without managing to secure an accord to end bloodletting in Syria, as fighting raged in major flashpoints leaving dozens more dead. Annan departed at the end of a two-day mission during which he said he presented President Bashar al-Assad with "concrete proposals" to halt unrest monitors...

Gaza funerals, exchanging fire with Israel continue; updated 12 Mar 2012; published 12 Mar 2012
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Gaza funerals, exchanging fire with Israel continue
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...

US soldier kills Afghan civilians in Kandahar; updated 12 Mar 2012; published 11 Mar 2012
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US soldier kills Afghan civilians in Kandahar
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...

Assange TV on RT: Exclusive interview show coming soon; updated 07 Mar 2012; published 25 Jan 2012
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Assange TV on RT: Exclusive interview show coming soon
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...

Putin returns for better or worse; updated 12 Mar 2012; published 12 Mar 2012
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Putin returns for better or worse
France24 11 Mar 2012, AFP - The economic dilemma facing Vladimir Putin in his third term as president may be familiar from his first two times around: crippling corruption and a dire dependence on natural resource exports. But the added dimension of the middle class flexing its muscle in protests reminiscent of the late Soviet era is making Putin's mission more urgent...

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...





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