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US Drone Strikes Kill 33 in Past 24 Hours in Pakistan
Attack Targeted ‘Associate’ of Maulvi Nazir A pair of US drone strikes against Pakistan’s South Waziristan Agency have killed at least 33 people, 16 in South Waziristan and 17 in North Waziristan and wounded four others in the past 24 hours. The majority of the slain “suspects” were unidentified. The one identified person was Malang…
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Bill Clinton, the genocider who just might get away
by Aimable Mugara There are some who will claim that Bill Clinton was the first African president of the United States. Those people clearly do not know that Bill Clinton is the one who established the stranglehold that the murderous gang of Gen. Kagame of Rwanda and Yoweri Museveni of Uganda have on the people…
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Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin and the protection of police murder in America
Once again another young Black man has been shot and killed, under highly questionable circumstances, by a representative of law enforcement. Also once again, African Americans and our allies fear that justice will not be served on the perpetrator. Unfortunately, this fear is neither imagined nor an overreaction; it is grounded in concrete reality. That…
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Protests erupt in Egypt over Hosni Mubarak verdicts
Huge crowds have gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square to protest against the verdicts on Egypt’s ex-President Hosni Mubarak and his co-defendants. Although Mubarak got life in prison for complicity in the killing of protesters in last year’s uprising, the acquittal of key security officials sparked fury. Egypt’s ex-interior Minister Habib al-Adly was also sentenced to…
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Black woman sentenced to 20 years in prison for warning shot in Florida
Fla. woman Marissa Alexander gets 20 years for “warning shot”: Did she stand her ground? (CBS) – Last Friday, Jacksonville mother Marissa Alexander was sentenced by a Florida judge to 20 years in prison for firing what she says was a “warning shot” into the wall after a physical altercation with her husband, Rico Gray.…
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Obama’s kill list – All males near drone strike sites are terrorists
Depending on whom you ask, the Obama administration has either executed hundreds of civilians abroad with poorly planned drone strikes or none at all. A new report, however, finally offers insight into those conflicting conclusions. A New York Times article published on Tuesday unearths a lot of information about the White House’s largely secretive drone…
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US commandos parachuted into North Korea: report
WASHINGTON — US and South Korean special forces have been parachuting into North Korea to gather intelligence about underground military installations, a US officer has said in comments carried in US media. Army Brigadier General Neil Tolley, commander of US special forces in South Korea, told a conference held in Florida last week that Pyongyang…
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Hacktivist claim: We took down city website because of police violence
BY NATASHA KORECKI When the NATO Summit in Chicago was still on the horizon, a group of self-proclaimed “hacktivists” was gearing up. A member of AntiS3curityOPS, which has taken credit for taking the City of Chicago’s website offline on Sunday, said in an interview on Tuesday it had been prepared for weeks to launch a…
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CIA Identifies, Memorializes Fallen Covert Officers
By Lee Ferran The CIA has revealed the identities of 15 of its fallen officers, some of whose secret ties to the spy agency are being made public for the first time in almost three decades. Engraved on a memorial wall at the CIA’s headquarters building in Northern Virginia are 103 stars, each representing a…
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Police Brutality reported at Chicago Summit Protests
Protesters rallied outside the Chicago campaign headquarters of President Barack Obama on Monday on the last day of the two-day NATO summit. The peaceful nature of the demonstration came in stark contrast to violent clashes that left protesters and eight police officers injured a day before. “NATO has to go. Everywhere they go, this is…
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