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Beware of the Little Breivik and Big Hitler in Each of Us
Full Article WorldNews.com
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. When Adolf Hitler, leader of the Third Reich, declared, "The entire struggle for survival is a conquest of the means of existence, which in turn results in the elimination of others from these same sources of subsistence," he was speaking to millions of people who collectively shared his vision and...
Accused Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik arrives at the courtroom, in Oslo, Norway, Tuesday April 17, 2012.
photo: AP / Frank Augstein

The significance of indigenous mobilisations
Full Article Al Jazeera
- Indigenous politics tend to be understood as local anecdotes, rather than political events of international significance. So it is of little surprise that the funeral of Bernardo Vásquez in San José del Progreso, Oaxaca, Mexico, generated little international attention. Vásquez was the second anti-mining activist shot dead in...
A man holds a sign that reads in Spanish: "Libertad's Laguna Sur, non-viable", referring to a mining project in Peru's northern state of La Libertad, during a protest against the Conga gold and silver mining project in Lima, Peru, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012.
photo: AP / Martin Mejia

UN Leader Wants Expanded Ceasefire Mission in Syria
Full Article Jakarta Globe
United Nations. UN chief Ban Ki-moon has called for an expanded UN ceasefire observation mission in Syria even though he says Damascus has failed to adhere to an agreed peace plan. The UN leader said on Wednesday he wants 300 unarmed observers to be sent on a three-month mission, in a report to the UN Security Council that also said it was...
UN Leader Wants Expanded Ceasefire Mission in Syria
photo: EC / EC

Syria hasn't fully complied with Annan peace plan: U.N. chief
Full Article Chicago Tribune
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Syria has not fully complied with its obligations to withdraw troops and heavy weapons from towns and has yet to send a "clear signal" about its commitment to peace, the U.N. chief told the Security Council in a letter obtained by Reuters on Wednesday. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said an expanded U.N. monitoring mission...
In this Sunday, April 15, 2012 photo, Syrians walk between destroyed buildings in the Inshaat neighborhood of Homs, Syria.
photo: AP

India tests 5,000-km range Agni-V missile
Full Article The Siasat Daily
New Delhi, April 19: India Thursday created history with the successful testing of the much awaited Agni-V long-range nuclear-capable ballistic missile that can accurately hit targets more than 5,000 km away. With this launch, India entered an exclusive club of nations that have this capability, becoming only the fourth nation in the world after...
India tests 5,000-km range Agni-V missile
photo: PIB of India

With Ruak, a New Generation Of Leaders Is Coming of Age
Full Article Jakarta Globe
The 55-year-old former armed forces commander Jose Maria Vasconcelos, more commonly known as Taur Matan Ruak, won East Timor’s runoff presidential vote in a landslide on Monday. While the count isn’t official yet, Ruak seems to have won more than 61 percent of the vote, easily beating Francisco “Lu Olo” Guterres, a fellow veteran of the country’s...
With Ruak, a New Generation Of Leaders Is Coming of Age
photo: UN / Martine Perret

Breivik wants freedom or death for massacre
Full Article Atlanta Journal
OSLO, Norway — The right-wing fanatic on trial for massacring 77 people in Norway says he wants either freedom or death, calling the country's prison terms "pathetic" and arguing for the return of capital punishment, which was last used here to execute Nazi collaborators after World War II. Accused Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik gestures on...
Accused Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik gestures as he arrives at the courtroom, in Oslo, Norway, Tuesday April 17, 2012.
photo: AP / Frank Augstein

Is the EU 'juking the stats' of its carbon schemes?
Full Article The Guardian
The EU's climate goal is the world's most ambitious, but how much of it is based on false accounting? The EU is counting on biomass, but could run out of harvestable wood before 2020 ... Steven's Croft biomass power station. Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian...
	Is the EU 'juking the stats' of its carbon schemes?
photo: EC / EC

U.S., NATO ready plan to pull away from frontline combat
Full Article The Hindu
The United States and its NATO allies are readying plans to pull away from the front lines in Afghanistan next year as President Barack Obama and fellow leaders try to show that the unpopular war is ending. Top military and diplomatic officials from the U.S. and NATO allies are meeting this week to finalize the combat handover program and a...
U.S. Army 1st Lt. Matthew Hickey, from Saint Paul, Minn., assigned to A Battery, speaks with local Afghan nationals while out on patrol April 7, 2012.
photo: US Army

Jack Straw faces legal action over 'rendition'
Full Article BBC News
A Libyan military commander is taking legal action against Jack Straw, to find out if the ex-foreign secretary signed papers allowing his rendition. Abdel Hakim Belhadj claims CIA agents took him from Thailand to Gaddafi-led Libya, via UK-controlled Diego Garcia. His lawyers have served papers on Mr Straw after the Sunday Times reported claims that...
Libya former rebels' Tripoli military commander Abdel Hakim Belhaj delivers his speech during a gathering against ousted Moammar Gadhafi on the Green Square renamed Martyrs Square in Tripoli, Libya, Friday, Sept. 9, 2011.
photo: AP


[The Herald] On April 5 the leader of the Mali coup...
- It may seem impossible, but many progressive leftist voters in Italy want former Prime...

Panetta says U.S. strategy in Afghanistan is working
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta seemed optimistic on Wednesday about plans to transition security to indigenous forces in Afghanistan beginning next year. “Our strategy is right, our strategy is working,” Panetta said after a meeting of NATO...
photo: US DoD / Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo
A Syrian family looks at hats, scarves and t-shirts with Syrian flags and portraits of Syrian President Bashar Assad, at a square where pro-Syrian regime held a protest against the Arabs and European sanctions, in Damascus, Syria, on Friday Dec. 2, 2011.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said late Wednesday he isn't underestimating the gravity of the situation in Syria but believes there is an opportunity for progress and recommended the Security Council approve a 300-strong U.N....
photo: AP / Muzaffar Salman
Syria 'Fails to Keep Truce' - UN Chief
Syria has failed to meet its obligations under a UN-backed peace plan to withdraw troops and heavy weapons from residential areas, the UN Secretary General said on Wednesday. "The Syrian Government has yet to fully implement its initial obligations...
photo: EC / EC
Soldiers defiling remains renews fears of ebbing discipline
WASHINGTON — A new revelation of young U.S. soldiers caught on camera while defiling insurgents' remains in Afghanistan has intensified questions within the military community about whether fundamental discipline is breaking down given the nature and...
photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod
UK Troops Crucial In Ending Kabul Attack
British Special Forces were critical in bringing the Taliban attack in Kabul on Sunday and Monday to an end, despite Nato commanders insisting that the Afghans countered the attack without help. According to Sky News sources, a unit of British...
photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod
Panetta apologizes for photos, 'not who we are'
BRUSSELS — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is apologizing for newly published photos depicting American soldiers posing with body parts of Afghans militants. Election 2012: Across the nation Boehner: Obama 'checked out' last Labor Day...
photo: US DoD / Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo
EU slams governments for not enacting growth laws
BRUSSELS — The 27 member countries of the European Union have been slammed for not implementing laws designed to boost growth on the crisis-hit continent. The criticism, from the president of the European Union's executive Commission, comes as...
photo: EC / EC

Breivik trial video: 'Norway killer' claims self-defense, cries in court; updated 19 Apr 2012; published 16 Apr 2012
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Breivik trial video: 'Norway killer' claims self-defense, cries in court
WorldNews.com 19 Apr 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. When Adolf Hitler, leader of the Third Reich, declared, "The entire struggle for survival is a conquest of the means of existence, which in turn results in the elimination of others from these same sources of subsistence," he was speaking to millions of people who collectively shared his vision and...

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Native Ecuadorans protest mining projects; updated 13 Apr 2012; published 23 Mar 2012
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Native Ecuadorans protest mining projects
Al Jazeera 19 Apr 2012, - Indigenous politics tend to be understood as local anecdotes, rather than political events of international significance. So it is of little surprise that the funeral of Bernardo Vásquez in San José del Progreso, Oaxaca, Mexico, generated little international attention. Vásquez was the second anti-mining activist shot dead in...

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Ban Ki-moon Says Syrian President Lacks Credibility; updated 09 Mar 2012; published 23 Jun 2011
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Ban Ki-moon Says Syrian President Lacks Credibility
Jakarta Globe 19 Apr 2012, United Nations. UN chief Ban Ki-moon has called for an expanded UN ceasefire observation mission in Syria even though he says Damascus has failed to adhere to an agreed peace plan. The UN leader said on Wednesday he wants 300 unarmed observers to be sent on a three-month mission, in a report to the UN Security Council that also said it was...

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CrossTalk: Still Syria?; updated 18 Apr 2012; published 13 Apr 2012
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CrossTalk: Still Syria?
Chicago Tribune 19 Apr 2012, UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Syria has not fully complied with its obligations to withdraw troops and heavy weapons from towns and has yet to send a "clear signal" about its commitment to peace, the U.N. chief told the Security Council in a letter obtained by Reuters on Wednesday. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said an expanded U.N. monitoring mission...

Agni-V missile test launch today - NewsX; updated 19 Apr 2012; published 19 Apr 2012
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Agni-V missile test launch today - NewsX
The Siasat Daily 19 Apr 2012, New Delhi, April 19: India Thursday created history with the successful testing of the much awaited Agni-V long-range nuclear-capable ballistic missile that can accurately hit targets more than 5,000 km away. With this launch, India entered an exclusive club of nations that have this capability, becoming only the fourth nation in the world after...

kampanha Lu-Olo.mp4; updated 13 Apr 2012; published 15 Mar 2012
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kampanha Lu-Olo.mp4
Jakarta Globe 19 Apr 2012, The 55-year-old former armed forces commander Jose Maria Vasconcelos, more commonly known as Taur Matan Ruak, won East Timor’s runoff presidential vote in a landslide on Monday. While the count isn’t official yet, Ruak seems to have won more than 61 percent of the vote, easily beating Francisco “Lu Olo” Guterres, a fellow veteran of the country’s...

Breivik trial video: 'Norway killer' claims self-defense, cries in court; updated 19 Apr 2012; published 16 Apr 2012
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Breivik trial video: 'Norway killer' claims self-defense, cries in court
Atlanta Journal 18 Apr 2012, OSLO, Norway — The right-wing fanatic on trial for massacring 77 people in Norway says he wants either freedom or death, calling the country's prison terms "pathetic" and arguing for the return of capital punishment, which was last used here to execute Nazi collaborators after World War II. Accused Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik gestures on...

EU seeks wider access to sustainable energy, calls on private sector; updated 17 Apr 2012; published 16 Apr 2012
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EU seeks wider access to sustainable energy, calls on private sector
The Guardian 18 Apr 2012, The EU's climate goal is the world's most ambitious, but how much of it is based on false accounting? The EU is counting on biomass, but could run out of harvestable wood before 2020 ... Steven's Croft biomass power station. Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian...

The Taliban Spring - Afghanistan; updated 18 Apr 2012; published 16 Apr 2012
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The Taliban Spring - Afghanistan
The Hindu 18 Apr 2012, The United States and its NATO allies are readying plans to pull away from the front lines in Afghanistan next year as President Barack Obama and fellow leaders try to show that the unpopular war is ending. Top military and diplomatic officials from the U.S. and NATO allies are meeting this week to finalize the combat handover program and a...

British PM's statement on Libya renditions report; updated 09 Sep 2011; published 05 Sep 2011
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British PM's statement on Libya renditions report
BBC News 18 Apr 2012, A Libyan military commander is taking legal action against Jack Straw, to find out if the ex-foreign secretary signed papers allowing his rendition. Abdel Hakim Belhadj claims CIA agents took him from Thailand to Gaddafi-led Libya, via UK-controlled Diego Garcia. His lawyers have served papers on Mr Straw after the Sunday Times reported claims that...

India launches 1st nuclear-capable missile; updated 19 Apr 2012; published 19 Apr 2012
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India launches 1st nuclear-capable missile
BBC News 18 Apr 2012, North Korea says it is no longer bound by a moratorium on missile and nuclear tests agreed with the US in February in return for food aid. The statement on Tuesday came after the UN Security Council condemned North Korea's failed rocket launch, seen by many as a test of missile technology. North Korea dismissed the UN criticism and said the US...

Bashir calls South Sudan leaders 'insects'; updated 19 Apr 2012; published 19 Apr 2012
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Bashir calls South Sudan leaders 'insects'
BBC News 18 Apr 2012, Sudan and South Sudan are "locked in a logic of war", the UN Security Council (UNSC) has been told. The two countries are fighting over their disputed border, with Sudan trying to remove South Sudan forces from its Heglig oil-field. African Union mediator...

Bring out the dead: US troops pose with Afghan body parts; updated 19 Apr 2012; published 18 Apr 2012
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Bring out the dead: US troops pose with Afghan body parts
Gulf News 17 Apr 2012, The coordinated Taliban attacks in Kabul and three provinces have sent out varying signals from the parties involved in the complex scenario in Afghanistan. President Hamid Karzai has blamed an intelligence failure, Nato's International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) has commended the Afghan forces for responding to the attacks and Australia has...

President Obama Delivers Remarks at CEO Summit Of The Americas; updated 19 Apr 2012; published 15 Apr 2012
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President Obama Delivers Remarks at CEO Summit Of The Americas
WorldNews.com 17 Apr 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling At the Organization of American States' (OAS) Summit, one concept that was sure to be absent from the lips of U.S. President Barack Obama and his security detail was "empire." But not only has empire been the guiding principle that has shaped the United States and its foreign policy, it has been the...





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