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You make midnights GR! Common interests is the name of the game ... no leaks can change that.

Oh yeah? I’d love to hear Ban Ki Moon confront Hillary at their next encounter… she’ll probably be avoiding him like the smallpox!

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Paul Craig Roberts,

Who, Precisely, Is Attacking the World?

Somehow it did not come across the NPR newscast that it is not Iran but Israel that routinely slaughters civilians in Lebanon, Gaza, and the West Bank, and that it is not Iran but the U.S. and its NATO mercenaries who slaughter civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, and Pakistan.

http://original.antiwar.com/roberts/201 ... the-world/

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U.S. Medic Jailed For Firing on Unarmed Afghans

A U.S. Army medic was sentenced to nine months in prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty to shooting at unarmed Afghan farmers and agreeing to testify against other soldiers accused of terrorizing civilians.

Five of the 12 soldiers are accused of premeditated murder in the most serious prosecution of alleged atrocities by U.S. military personnel since the war began in late 2001.

Several are alleged to have collected severed fingers and other human remains as war trophies in Afghanistan.

In the first court-martial in the case, Staff Sergeant Robert Stevens, 25, admitted opening fire on two Afghan men for no apparent reason, saying he and other soldiers were acting on orders from a squad leader during a patrol in March.

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/12/ ... &ref=world

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Paul Craig Roberts

Western Civilization Has Shed Its Values

The U.S. government definitely does not believe in accountable government. Among the first things the Obama regime did was to make certain that there would be no investigation into the Bush regime’s use of lies, fabricated “intelligence,” and deception of the American public and the United Nations in order to further its agenda of conquering the independent Muslim states in the Middle East and turning them into U.S. puppets. The Obama regime also made certain that no member of the Bush regime would be held accountable for violating U.S. and international laws, for torturing detainees, for war crimes, for privacy violations or for any of the other criminal acts of the Bush regime.

http://original.antiwar.com/roberts/201 ... ts-values/

It never had any in the first place Paul...

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Nigeria charges former US VP Cheney over bribery

Nigeria: Charges filed against former US vice president Dick Cheney in Halliburton case

Nigeria's anti-corruption agency on Tuesday charged former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney over a bribery scheme involving oil services firm Halliburton Co. during time he served as its top official, a spokesman said.

The charges stem from a case involving as much as $180 million allegedly paid in bribes to Nigerian officials, said Femi Babafemi, a spokesman for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

http://wire.antiwar.com/2010/12/07/nige ... bribery-2/

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$52bn of American aid and still Afghans are dying of starvation

The most extraordinary failure of the US-led coalition in Afghanistan is that the expenditure of tens of billions of dollars has had so little impact on the misery in which 30 million Afghans live. As President Barack Obama prepares this week to present a review of America's strategy in Afghanistan which is likely to focus on military progress, US officials, Afghan administrators, businessmen and aid workers insist that corruption is the greatest threat to the country's future.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 58667.html

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Scores of Afghans hold anti-US rally

Hundreds of angry Afghans have taken to the streets of Gardez city to protest against the rising number of civilian casualties at the hands of US-led troops.

The protest was held in Gardez, the capital of Paktia Province. Protesters chanted slogans against the US for killing civilians.

The demonstration followed the killing of seven civilians in a US-led strike in the volatile region.

Sources say the protest in eastern Afghanistan turned violent, leaving at least six people wounded.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/155038.html

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Continuation of Gitmo disgrace to US justice

KUWAIT: Kuwaiti Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammad Sabah Al-Sabah on Friday described the continued presence of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp as "a disgrace" to the US justice system. The minister's outburst came whilst he was responding to reporters' questions before leaving for Bahrain to attend meetings of the joint Kuwaiti-Bahraini Committee. Commenting on the US Congress' decision to reject President Barack Obama's proposal to close the facility, jeopardizing the fate of im
prisoned Kuwaitis there, Sheikh Mohammad asserted "As we have said time and time again, the detention facility is a disgrace to US justice." There were initially 12 Kuwaiti detainees in Guantanamo, with four of these still remaining.

http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.ph ... E2Mzk5NjE3

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Brazil: There won't be Mideast peace as long as U.S. is 'guardian'

"There will not be peace in the Middle East as long as the United States is the guardian of peace. It is necessary to involve other countries in negotiations (between Israel and the Palestinians)," he said.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/internation ... n-1.331699

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