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They need not have been, though, as the expansion of the U.S. global, layered, integrated interceptor missile system into the Black Sea was as foreseeable as it is inevitable. |
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‘Peace Prize’ President Submits Largest War Budget Ever. Obama Seeks Record $708 Billion in Defense Budget.
Murders at Guantánamo: Scott Horton and Andy Worthington talk to Jeff Farias …I explained the outline of the story, which focuses on the testimony of Army Staff Sgt. Joe Hickman and three other members of the US military, who have presented a coherent explanation for how the men were, in fact, taken to a secret facility outside the main perimeter fence of Guantánamo on the evening of June 9, 2006, where they died – either accidentally, as a result of torture that went too far, or beca…
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In addition to imposing new sanctions on the Tehran government, the US has reportedly begun beefing up its military presence and war paraphernalia off the Iranian coast.
Arctic sea ice vanishing faster than 'our most pessimistic models': researcher
The finding came after battles over Taiwan, Tibet, trade, climate change, internet freedom and human rights which have poisoned relations in the three months since President Barack Obama made a fruitless visit to Beijing.
Hundreds of Haitian earthquake survivors protested in a suburb of the wrecked capital on Sunday, accusing a district mayor of corruption and hoarding food aid provided by relief groups, witnesses said.
The impact of the recession is likely to hit the giant retirement system even harder this year and next. The Congressional Budget Office had projected it would operate in the red in 2010 and 2011, but a deeper economic slump could make those losses larger than anticipated.
Bayer to pay $1.5 mln in 2nd lawsuit over GM rice
Germany’s Bayer ( BAYGn.DE) was ordered by a jury in the United States to pay $1.5 million in damages to three farmers for losses they incurred because of contaminations of Bayer’s genetically modified rice, the second in about 500 similar cases pending.
The war profiteers (including those on the ‘left’)
–Today the New York Times offers an editorial on war profiteering in Iraq but we need to remember, it wasn’t just the munitions makers, not just the weapons makers, it was the faux peace set, it was the pseudo activists. It is Amy Goodman, Norman Solomon, Tom Hayden and so damn many others who made like nobody’s heart bled more on your TV and radio pretending to give a damn about the Iraq War – – the ongoing Iraq War – – whenever they ha …
The Wolf ~ look closely
~ By Luc Majno
What really happened in New Orleans?
The rest of the story is far worse than what
the firemen were aware of...
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The battle-stretched US military Saturday vowed to keep up US assistance in Haiti as long as needed on Saturday as it pointed to a likely 45 to 50 day armed mission. Webmaster’s Commentary:
Don’t bet on that; the battle for the exploitation of oil and mineral rights in Haiti (which will, of course, still leave the Haitian people impoverished beyond belief) has just begun.
Maziki Thame- René Préval sold Haiti to the USA for US$100 million. The Americans’ pledge of US$100 million in assistance to Haiti following the earthquake disaster of January 12 must have sealed the agreement for US control over Haiti. The Americans have been deeply embedded in Haitian politics from its independence, through various dictatorships and throughout its fragile democratisation. A commitment to Haitian democratisation has neve.…
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No presidential statement or White House press briefing was held on it. In fact, all that can be found about it on the official White House Web site is the Dec. 17 announcement and one-paragraph text of President Obama's Executive Order 12425, with this innocuous headline: "Amending Executive Order…
U.S. President Barack Obama calls the $3.8-trillion US budget he just sent to Congress a major step in restoring America’s economic health.
In fact, it’s another potent fix given to a sick patient deeply addicted to the dangerous drug — debt. More empires have fallen because of reckless finances than invasion. The latest example was the Soviet Union, which spent itself into ruin by buying tanks.
Muscling Latin America: In recent years, Washington has experienced a fast erosion of its influence in South America, driven by the rise of Brazil, the region's left turn, the growing influence of China and Venezuela’s use of oil revenue to promote a multipolar diplomacy.
Some of the continent’s leaders used the US financial system to protect millions of dollars.
The governor of the Nigerian state of Anambra is re-elected amid accusations of unfair voting procedures.
Hung out to dry?
Farming threat to Kenya’s untamed wetlands.
Air pollution is about much more than just global warming; it’s also about how particulate matter in the air alters weather patterns, causing weather severity that's already threatening the world food supply.
Sydney: Biochemists have stumbled on a critical piece in the evolutionary puzzle that explains how life on earth has evolved, says a new study. Researchers from Monash University School of Biomedical Sciences described the process by which bacteria developed into more complex cells and found this crucial step happened much earlier in the evolutionary timeline than suspected.
Google has been recruited by US intelligence agencies to help them better process and share information they gather about suspects.
Will Publishers Let Facebook Become the Web’s Biggest News Source?
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Study links sugary soft drinks to pancreas cancer
WASHINGTON Mon Feb 8, 2010 10:32am EST Construction workers take a break in Santa Monica in a file photo. Credit: Reuters/File WASHINGTON (Reuters) ~ People who drink two or more sweetened soft drinks a week have a much higher risk of pancreatic cancer, an unusual but deadly cancer, researchers… 1) Increased sugar intake may stimulate tumor growth through effects
of insulin; 2) Pancreatic cancer rates increased nearly twofold over the
past several decades; 3) Drinking two or more soft drinks a week led to an
87 percent increased risk.
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