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China overtakes US as world’s largest trading country
AFP Photo / China out China has passed the US as the world’s biggest trading nation as measured by the sum of exports and imports in 2012. It’s a position the US has held for over six decades. US exports and imports of goods last year amounted to $3.82 trillion, the US Commerce Department said…
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PFLP condemns Zionist attack on Syria
Statement by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Commenting on the Zionist aggression on Syria, the official spokesperson of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Comrade Abu Ahmad Fouad of the Political Bureau of the PFLP, made a statement denouncing the brutal aggression on Syria as a heinous crime and a…
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Israeli warplanes bomb research center near Damascus – Syrian military
Israeli fighter jets targeted a military research center near Damascus early Wednesday, the Syrian army has revealed. In press remarks, US officials claimed the Israeli attack struck a convoy carrying Syrian weapons bound for Hezbollah in Lebanon. The Syrian army’s general command issued a statement saying that the airstrike was launched by the Israeli Air…
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Syria’s Rebels Hype Their Child Soldier Training
‘Children Are the Best Soldiers I Know,’ Military Defector Insists It’s one of those things you’re not supposed to brag about, but Syrian rebels are praising their ability to attract child soldiers and turn them into “killing machines” to use against the Assad government. “Children are the best soldiers I know,” declared former Syrian Sgt.…
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Bradley Manning denied chance to make whistleblower defence
Judge rules that Manning will not be allowed to present evidence about his motives for the leak – a key plank of his defence Bradley Manning, the US soldier accused of being behind the largest leak of state secrets in America’s history, has been denied the chance to make a whistleblower defence in his upcoming…
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Can’t Save? Here’s Why
By HELAINE OLEN THE odds are good that you haven’t yet given up on your New Year’s resolutions and that one of them is to swear off those expensive cappuccinos and save money for your old age. That’s a typical suggestion from finance gurus, who say we can add thousands of dollars annually to our nest…
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Israel must remove all Jewish settlers from occupied West Bank – UN inquiry
Jewish settlers hold Israeli flags near the West Bank city. (Reuters / Ronen Zvulun) A UN human rights inquiry has called on Israel to remove all Jewish settlers from the West Bank and cease expansion. The report said the settlements violate international law, and are an attempt to drive out Palestinians through intimidation. “Israel must,…
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France in Mali: The longue durée of imperial blowback
The current crisis in Mali is a product of French colonialism, and their intervention will sadly create more blowback. The present intervention in Mali, however necessary and well-intentioned it is, may produce its own blowback [Reuters] The dispatching of French soldiers to beat back rapidly advancing Salafi militants in northern Mali represents the convergence of…
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Profiting off hunger: Wall Street makes big gains over food price spikes
AFP Photo / Tony Karuba Powerful firms like Goldman Sachs have made hundreds of millions of dollars in food future trades. Critics accuse them of profiting off starvation and market manipulation, while traders claim their profits are due to increasing consumption in China. World food prices tracked by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)…
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Hacked e-mails reveal ‘Washington approved’ plan to stage Syria chemical attack
BY: RYAN KELLER On Saturday, Cyber War News released a cache of e-mails allegedly hacked by someone in Malaysia from a British private defense contractor called Britam Defence. One of the e-mails contains a discussion between Britam’s Business Development Director David Goulding and Philip Doughty, company founder. In the exchange, it’s revealed that there is a plan to…
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