By Jason Leopold posted October 18, 2012 by trouthout Sold for a $5,000 bounty, Adnan Latif was among the first prisoners detained at Guantanamo. A federal judge and two presidential administrations said he didn’t belong there. A decade later he left in a box – and no one will say why. “Ya Baba! Ya Baba!” […]
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by Noam Chomsky posted October 17, 2012 by ZNET The Cuban Missile Crisis and Ownership of the World The world stood still 50 years ago during the last week of October, from the moment when it learned that the Soviet Union had placed nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba until the crisis was officially ended — though
by Joseph Nevins posted October 17, 2012 by Dissident Voice Although you would not know it from what passes for debate during the ongoing presidential campaign here in the United States, the biosphere is under siege. A historically high rate of ice melt in the Artic, devastating floods from the Philippines to Nigeria, a record-setting
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by Esmail Salami posted October 20, 2012 by Dissident Voice The US-led sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran which directly and painfully target the population have created an inconceivable situation for those whose very lives depend on the medicine adversely affected by these barbaric sanctions. The West is sharply aware of the devastating inhuman
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Posted October 8, 2012 by Intifada Frequent and rising Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians almost always go unpunished. Indeed, often, Israeli soldiers stand by and watch as Israeli settlers go on the rampage. The situation is so bad that a boy like Yousef Ikhlayl, 17, can be killed and there is no investigation or accountability.
by Steve Rendall and Mariana Garces posted September, 2012 by FAIR Study finds poverty not an issue in most election coverage “All this talk today about poverty got us wondering just how many people in America live below the poverty line,” anchor Scott Pelley announced on the CBS Evening News (2/1/12). By “all this talk,”
posted October 17, 2012 by IKHWANWEB Freedom and Justice Party leader and member of the charter-authoring committee Ahmed Diab assures: the new document takes into account all feedback received through community dialogue. Hossam Ghariani, Chairman of the Constituent Assembly (CA) tasked with drawing up Egypt’s first post-revolution national charter, said CA members will begin the
posted October 14, 2012 by Al-Manar Tunisia will hold presidential and legislative elections on June 23, 2013 the ruling Ennahda party said early on Sunday. A second round in the presidential ballot will take place on July 7, it said in a statement that was also signed by the other two parties in the current
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posted October 19, 2012 by Common Dreams Reuters reports that regional UN gets funding, support from junk food giants The organization charged with battling the latest “global epidemic,” diabetes and heart disease, has been exposed getting funding from the industries at the heart of this plague. Reuter’s investigative report on the UN’s World Health Organization
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posted October 20, 2012 by PressTV A recent study shows a spiraling numbers of birth defects, ranging from congenital heart defects to brain dysfunctions and malformed limbs, among Iraqi babies as a result of weapons used by the US and UK forces. The new findings, published in the Environmental Contamination and Toxicology bulletin, report high
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