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TOP STORIES -- "Russian businessman in spy poisoning investigation is in a coma" Russia will not extradite suspects in the Alexander Litvinenko case to Britain,... its chief prosecutor said today. Any Russian citizens suspected of involvement would be tried in Russia. Prosecutor-General Yuri Chaika also insisted that the radioactive element used to poison the former spy could not have come from Russia. » »More Top Stories .... »Yesterday's News.... » Archive Iraq --Video: It's BAD in Iraq...Testifying before a House committee on the Iraq transition, co-chairman Lee Hamilton said he hopes Congress won't pick and choose elements from the report, and that it must be a bipartisan approach. --Greg Palast: Found: Saddam's weapons of mass destruction --Oil for Sale: Iraq Study Group Recommends Privatization...The Iraq Study Group may not have a solution for how to end the war, but it does have a way for its corporate friends to make money. ... --400 Iraqis Killed Daily in Baghdad Alone »More Iraq News Asia | M.E. | Africa --Philippines Bans US Rights Lawyer Ahead Of ASEAN Summit..."This is just another small part of the government's concerted, long-standing campaign to silence the critics of the Arroyo regime and the political killings," Campbell said in the e-mail, referring to President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and a string of killings of leftist activists. --Chirac Agains Asks Israel To Halt Lebanese Overflights More Asia/M.E./Africa news

Other --Missing dad died of hypothermia -- Is cursive handwriting dead? More   Business -- Euro Faces Huge Change If Others Follow Iran : "It's something to keep a very close eye on because if" other oil exporters "were to shift from dollars to euros as they invoice oil receipts changes, it improves the euro's value as money." -- Revenge of the Euro : Forget the U.S. dollar. Up, down­ who cares? If America catches a cold, Europe barely sniffles. --China's wood products flood Canadian market -- Iran to replace dollar with euro in foreign trade -- U.S. Recession Looms in 2007 »More Business News Tech »Tech News Archives Humor Still the Decider--by Mark Fiore »Archives

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-- Fine Print in Defense Bill Opens Door to Martial Law... By Jeff Stein, CQ National Security Editor  It's amazing what you can find if you turn over a few rocks in the anti­ terrorism legislation Congress approved during the election season.

-- Becoming what we despise?... By Robert Scheer  An examining psychiatrist wrote that "as the result of his experience during his detention and interrogation, Mr. Padilla does not appreciate the nature and consequences of the proceedings against him, is unable to render assistance to counsel and has impairments in reasoning as the result of a mental illness ... complicated by the neuropsychiatric effects of prolonged isolation."

--U.S. hurricane aid fraud likely tops $1 bln

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-- Italy prosecutors want kidnap trial for CIA agents : Italian prosecutors asked a judge on Tuesday to order CIA agents and Italian spies to stand trial on charges of kidnapping a terrorism suspect and flying him to Egypt, where he says he was tortured.

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Canada

Dec 7/06 Update from Grand River...from Hazel

--Lies, Deceit, and Cover-Up: The Gordon Campbell B.C. Government

--Delta treaty worth $120m

--Wrong­ way pelican rescued from White Rock snowbank

--U.S. fails to protect asylum-seekers, group says:   A Canadian refugee group says the United States is no longer a safe haven for people who need protection, accusing Washington of flouting international rules against torture.

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A Deeper Look Into AskCity

TRUTHDIG INTERVIEW WITH MIDDLE EAST SCHOLAR NIKKI KEDDIE
"The Good News Behind the Bad for Middle Eastern Women" -- Nikki Keddie, one of the nation's leading Middle East scholars, argues that despite Western stereotypes, women in many Middle Eastern countries are making great strides in terms of civil liberties and legal rights. But America's disastrous occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan threaten to undo much of the progress.

‘Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy’: A Documentary Film By John Pilger:  Pilger uncovers the shocking complicity of the US and GB governments in the East Timor genocide   the same governments who were willing to go to war with Saddam Hussein for his invasion of Kuwait, but who stood aside as Indonesia broke the exact same UN regulations to rape and pillage East Timor using Western arms.

ROBERT SCHEER ON THE DETENTION AND ABUSE OF JOSE PADILLA
"Robert Scheer: Becoming What We Despise" -- Truthdig's editor in chief Robert Scheer writes that the Founding Fathers won a war, but their true contribution to human history was to tackle head-on the reality that humans and their institutions can so easily become that which they despise.
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