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Plan for hunting terrorists signals U.S. intends to keep adding names to kill lists
Over the past two years, the Obama administration has been secretly developing a new blueprint for pursuing terrorists, a next-generation targeting list called the “disposition matrix.” The matrix contains the names of terrorism suspects arrayed against an accounting of the resources being marshaled to track them down, including sealed indictments and clandestine operations. U.S. officials…
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Native Americans ‘slaughtered, sacrificed, fenced in reservations’ in US
The prominent Native American activist Russell Means passed away on Monday. In 2008 he met with RT to talk about the Native Americans withdrawal from the US, their fight for recognition and his unhappiness with US citizenship. At the end of 2007, a large group of Native Americans from South Dakota declared the independence of…
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Libyan forces take control of Bani Walid after fighting pro-Gaddafi fighters
LIBYAN pro-government forces seized control of Bani Walid, one of the last bastions of Muammar Gaddafi’s ousted regime, an AFP correspondent in the town said. Hundreds of fighters, mostly former rebels from the rival town of Misrata, converged on the centre of Bani Walid, firing in the air to celebrate and hoisting the Libyan flag…
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US Homelessness: 1.6 Million Children Are Homeless, Up by 38 Percent Since 2007
By Gilbert Mercier NEWS JUNKIE POST According to a report released today by the National Center on Homelessness, more than 1.6 million children are currently homeless in America. This amounts to one child in 45. It represents a dramatic increase of 38 percent since the onset of the recession in 2007. The report “America’s Youngest…
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Follow the Money, Find the Leader: Billion Dollar Candidates
Billion Dollar Candidates by P. SAINATH The point is not whether Barack Obama wins re-election as President. The point is not whether Mitt Romney can win. The point is that you can’t dream of contesting without a billion dollars. That figure merely ensures you can run, not win. Especially if the other guy can spend…
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Israel Seizes Gaza-Bound Aid Ship
This was just the latest attempt by activists to bring attention to Israel’s strict blockade on Gaza Israeli navy commandos on Saturday seized a ship headed to the Gaza Strip carrying about 30 pro-Palestinian activists as it attempted to break Israel’s harsh blockade of the impoverished territory. Israeli officials said that once the ship refused to alter its course,…
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Privatization Madness: Now Private Companies Are Collecting Our Taxes
Now Private Companies Are Collecting Our Taxes by Dave Lindorff I went into my local township building Monday to settle up my local income tax bill. I had filed for an extension of my federal and state taxes back in April because of my father’s unexpected death a few weeks before the tax filing date…
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Eleven killed as Libyan militia shell Gaddafi stronghold
Clashes between Libyan authorities and Gaddafi loyalists have left 11 dead during the siege of anti-regime bastion Bani Walid. Libyan authorities continue to struggle against multiple militia groups in the midst of growing political disarray. Libya’s President of the General National Congress, Mohammed Magarief, is on the way to Bani Walid to persuade its tribal…
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Blind justice: Cops taser disabled man after mistaking walking stick for samurai sword
Police tasered and handcuffed a blind two-time stroke victim in northern England, reportedly mistaking his walking stick for samurai sword. Colin Farmer, a retired architect who is 61 and cannot move unaided, was on his own and walking down a street in Chorley, in the county of Lancashire, on a Friday evening, when the incident…
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Why Does the Left Want Prostitution to be ‘a Job Like Any Other’?
The go-to perspective on prostitution from many progressives in Canada these days seems to be a fairly hard and fast vote for decriminalization or legalization. Even many of our beloved East Vancouver lefties seem convinced that the most progressive position to take is one of ‘sex as work’, arguing that debates around prostitution should prioritize…
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