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Snipers in Iraq
Posted by garrettmoon from Salon
In 2007 elite U.S. snipers executed an unarmed Iraqi prisoner in cold blood. Have the insidious tactics that led to atrocities in Vietnam reemerged in Iraq? Pressure to raise enemy death counts in an attempt to show that the U.S. is 'winning' the war, maybe causing murder of innocent Iraqis.
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Google's Shareholders Vote to Continue Censorship in China
Posted by Jeff from
Google [has been] coming under fire for operating a version of its search engine that complies with China's censorship rules. Google argues that it's better for it to have a presence in the country and to offer people some information, rather than for it not to be active in China at all... [S]hareholders and rights groups including Amnesty International... continue to push Google to improve its policies in countries known for human rights abuses and limits on freedom of speech... Sergey Brin, cofounder and president of technology for Google, abstained from voting on either of the proposals. 'I agreed with the spirit of these proposals,' Brin said. But he said he didn't fully support them as they were written, and so did not want to vote for them.
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Costa, New South Wales Labor's good cop, bad cop or true blue?
Posted by devolved from Smh.com
New South Wales Treasurer Michael Costa's bully-boy tactics may have hurt Labor but not the Premier or the state government plan's to sell-off its power industry.
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Australian Climate Change Minister’s dose of shock therapy
Posted by devolved from Smh.com
As she draws up detailed plans to reduce carbon emissions, Penny Wong, the Australian Climate Change Minister, faces fierce arguments from fossil fuel companies that are on a collision course with the latest scientific predictions on global warming.
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Burma’s trail of destruction
Posted by devolved from The Age
They have a saying in Burma that if the roof is not sound, the whole house is prone to leaks - and the recent cyclone has blown the country's roof right off, a catastrophe that could reach even greater proportions if the ruling junta keeps resisting foreign help.
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An aid worker’s selfless life
Posted by devolved from The Age
From women's hospital nurse to wife of an Ethiopian clan leader, devoted aid worker Valerie Browning has published a memoir of her life, which she believes would have been no life at all without risk.
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Victorian Premier Brumby fades to brown
Posted by devolved from The Age
Premier John Brumby has a vision for Melbourne in a climate-changed age, but sustainability experts fear that it is too wedded to coal and cars to match the scale of the environmental problem.
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Australia’s great budget expectations
Posted by devolved from The Age
There's a lot for the Wayne Swan to worry about, as getting his first budget right is vital for the Australian economy, crucial politically for the new Rudd Government and critical for the Treasurer personally.
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Lebanon on brink of civil war
Posted by Sandyenglish from
Lebanon stands on the brink of all-out civil war. A general strike by the leading trade union to protest rising prices and demand an increase in the minimum wage has led to armed conflict between the pro-Western Sunni and Druze-based government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and the Shia-based Hezbollah and its ally, Amal.
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Luis Posada Carriles, Terrorist Enjoys A ‘Coming-Out’ in Miami
Posted by theangryindian from Kurtnimmo
the man being honored by 500 fellow Cuban Americans at a sold-out gala was Luis Posada Carriles, the former CIA operative wanted in Venezuela on terrorism charges and under a deportation order for illegally entering the United States three years ago.
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Ayoreo Indian dies after first contact
Posted by theangryindian from
A Paraguayan Indian, who lived without contact with the outside world until 1998, has died of tuberculosis. Survival International has called his life, 'a symbol of the fate of indigenous people in the Americas since Columbus'.
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Congress subpoenas Cheney's chief of staff on torture
Posted by theangryindian from Rawstory
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) today issued a subpoena to David Addington, Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, compelling him to testify before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties on June 26 for any knowledge of harsh interrogation techniques employed at Guantanamo Bay approved by the Bush Administration.
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