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Israel Won’t Warn US Before Attacking Iran
Officials Plan to Keep US ‘In the Dark’ About Impending Strike by Jason Ditz, February 28, 2012 Reports quoting a number of anonymous US and Israeli officials today say that the Israeli government has decided, and has informed the US, that it will not offer any advanced notice to the US before attacking Iran. This…
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The CIA, Cuba and Operation Peter Pan
Where’s Captain Hook in NPR’s Fairy Tale? by SAUL LANDAU and NELSON P. VALDES “Los niños nacen para ser felices.” – José Martí On November 19, 2011 NPR broadcast “Children Of Cuba Remember: Their Flight To America.” Reporter Greg Allen claimed the 1960-62 journey from Cuba to the United States of 14,000 plus Cuban children…
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NYPD monitored Muslim students all over Northeast
NEW YORK (AP) – The New York Police Department monitored Muslim college students far more broadly than previously known, at schools far beyond the city limits, including the Ivy League colleges of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, the Associated Press has learned. Police talked with local authorities about professors 300 miles away in Buffalo…
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Native Nations Make Own Cigarettes to Avoid N.Y. Tax
By THOMAS KAPLAN ONEIDA, N.Y. — The trucks lumber past cornfields and dilapidated farm houses, pull up to a onetime bingo hall and unload their cargo: boxes of tobacco imported from the Carolinas. Inside, employees of the Oneida Indian Nation dump the shredded tobacco leaves into rolling machines and fashion them into cigarettes to be…
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The “Feminism” of Maggie Thatcher
Celebrating the Self-Empowerment of Elite White Women by GAIL DINES I usually like watching Meryl Streep, but I seriously hope that she doesn’t win an Oscar on Sunday for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher. I couldn’t stand the thought of more people going to see such a dreadful piece of right-wing propaganda. I actually paid…
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The Sierra Club Took Millions From Fracking Industry
When Will They Give It Back? by RUSSELL MOKHIBER Last week, I wrote an article about how Chesapeake Energy, through its fracking activity, was destroying the rural way of life in West Virginia. After the article ran, an insider called me with a tip – Sierra Club has taken money from Chesapeake Energy. I called…
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Muslims to attorney general: Investigate NYPD
By CHRIS HAWLEY NEW YORK (AP) — Thirty-three civil rights groups from around the country complained to the New York attorney general Friday about police documents that showed the New York Police Department recommending increased surveillance of Shiite mosques based on their religion. The letter urged Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to investigate NYPD’s surveillance operations,…
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Fresh Anti-US Protests Erupt in Afghanistan
American apologies are falling on deaf ears in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan, where anger over the burning of Qurans is boiling over. Deadly anti-American protests erupted in Afghanistan for a fourth day Friday, with thousands of Afghans pouring onto the streets following Friday prayers, many chanting “Death to America.” Afghan officials say at least nine…
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Israel-Iran shadow war
* In the past two years, four Iranian scientists have been mysteriously assassinated * The only one to survive so far is Fereidoun Abbasi-Davani, now the head of Iran’s atomic energy organization, who jumped away from his car seconds before it burst in November 2010 * Majid Shahriari, another Iranian scientist, was killed in an…
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