Raw Story
2/9/10
By Stephen C. Webster
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair wants the public to believe that his motives in helping the United States invade Iraq were completely pure.
The reasons for an inquiry into his government’s actions, he argued during a recent interview, stem merely from an “obsession” to uncover a grand “conspiracy” to take...
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As Blair blasts Iraq ‘conspiracy’ hunt, British officials eye Bush, aides
ABC News– “Why Europe Doesn’t Want an Invasion of Body Scanners”
ABC News
2/6/10
By BEN QUINN
To borrow a phrase from counter-terrorist parlance, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s alleged plot to bring down a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day was a “game changer.”
As a reluctance to introduce body scanners at airports eases, two countries deploying them nationwide this month...
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Last Week, Ron Paul Introduced Free Competition in Currency Act
Gold Seek
2/1/10
On 9 December 2009 Representative Ron Paul introduced H.R. 4248 the Free Competition in Currency Act of 2009. This Act has the potential to impact the investment world more than any other legislation that has been enacted for decades. The impact on the...
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Amid Rallies, Iraqi Court Reinstates Election Ban
Anti-War.com
2/8/10
By Jason Ditz
Facing massive Shi’ite protests in the streets, an Iraqi appeals panel backpedaled on last week’s ruling, reinstating the election ban on some 500 opposition candidates.
Last week the...
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IRAN: Internet access, text-messaging service down as 22 Bahman protests approach
LA Times
2/8/10
By Daniel Siegal
In the last week, Internet connections across Iran have slowed to a crawl, with sources in Tehran reporting that, when service is available at all, it...
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Colorado cops get first ID eye-scanners
KDVR
2/5/10
By Dave Young
Arapahoe County will become the first law enforcement agency in Colorado to begin identifying criminals, missing children and seniors using biometric analysis of the human iris.
A technician...
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Wars Sending US into Ruin
Toronto Sun
2/7/10
By Eric Margolis
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...
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Destabilizing Pakistan…Could Pakistan 2010 go the way of Cambodia 1969?
Anti-War.com
2/8/10
By Pratap Chatterjee and Tom Engelhardt
Almost every day, reports come back from the CIA’s “secret” battlefield in the Pakistani tribal borderlands. Unmanned aerial vehicles – that is, pilotless drones...
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Pat Buchanan- “Will Obama Play the War Card?”
CS
2/5/10
By Pat Buchanan
Republicans already counting the seats they will pick up this fall should keep in mind Obama has a big card yet to play.
Should the president declare he...
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The OTHER Reason that the U.S. is Not Regulating Wall Street
Washington’s Blog
2/8/10
Sure, American politicians have been bought and paid for by the Wall Street giants. See this, this and this.
And everyone knows that the White House and Congress –...
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U.S. soldier ‘waterboarded his own daughter, 4, because she couldn’t recite alphabet’
Mail Online
2/8/10
A soldier waterboarded his four-year-old daughter because she was unable to recite her alphabet.
Joshua Tabor admitted to police he had used the CIA torture technique because he was...
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US fights for access to EU bank data
Irish Times
2/8/10
By ARTHUR BEESLEY
THE US government has initiated a diplomatic offensive against threatened moves by MEPs to block a deal that gives American intelligence agencies direct access to European...
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