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Obama’s ‘Disposition Matrix’ Maps Out Extrajudicial Murders For Years To Come

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US-led drone strikes — the targeted executions of suspected insurgents using remote-controlled, killing machines from tens of thousands of feet above the Earth — are not about to end. Unmanned aerial vehicles like the widely popular Predator drone will not be put into retirement by the Pentagon, even 11 years into a so-called global war [...]

Come Back President Carter! – OpEd

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The third and final debate between President Obama and challenger Romney was so lacking in real and relevant substance about foreign affairs that I had to struggle, several times, to resist the temptation to turn it off and go back to bed. Romney’s message to America’s voters seemed to be something very like, “On foreign [...]

Saudi Arabia: Over 1.75 Million Foreign Pilgrims At Haj

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Saudi Arabia’ Interior Minister Prince Ahmed, who is chairman of the Supreme Haj Committee, said 1,752,932 foreign pilgrims have arrived for Haj this year, including 801,126 women (46 percent). He said the number was 4 percent (77,968) less than that of last year. He said the foreign pilgrims came from 189 countries. Makkah Gov. Prince [...]

Polls Show Very Tight US Presidential Race

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By Jim Malone President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, are engaged in a furious final push for votes with a little more than a week to go before Election Day on November 6. Both campaigns are going to great lengths to ensure their supporters get to the polls either on or before [...]

NSA’s Secretive Surveillance Program Goes To Supreme Court

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The US government insists that Americans don’t have the right to challenge a law that lets the National Security Agency eavesdrop on the intimate communications of anyone in the country, but all of that could now change as early as next week. The Supreme Court will officially start their second session of the year on [...]

China To Use Force If Japan Challenges Its Sovereignty

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Beijing will make no concessions on its territorial sovereignty and will resort to forceful measures, including in regard to Japan, in response to any moves that challenge China’s territorial integrity, Xinhua news agency said citing a senior diplomat. “We want to live in friendship with all countries including Japan, but we have to uphold our [...]

Consumption And Defense Spending Pace GDP Growth In 3rd Quarter‏

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GDP growth accelerated modestly in the 3rd quarter to a 2.0 percent annual rate, driven by an 8.5 percent growth rate in durable good purchases and a 13.0 percent rise in defense spending. A 14.4 percent rise in housing investment also boosted growth in the quarter. The increase in durable goods sales followed a modest [...]

US Waiver For Multi-Billion Dollar Aid To Pakistan

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By Rajeev Sharma In a major policy reversal, surprisingly not highlighted by the Indian media, the poll-bound administration of President Barack Obama has waived legal requirements that imposed stiff conditions on the multi-billion dollar military and civil aid to Pakistan. The United States State Department has formally but quietly notified the US Congress recently of [...]

Sri Lanka: Strange Happenings In Serendib – Analysis

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By Dr Kumar David It’s quite bizarre but a few weeks ago a cohort of senior Cabinet Ministers convened a press conference to formally announce that the government does not intend to impeach the Chief Justice. It reminds me of a statement, some twenty years ago, issued by the Presidential Palace in Impala that assured [...]

Myanmar: Communal Clashes Worsen In Rakhine State – Analysis

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The fresh communal clashes between Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in the Rakhine State of Myanmar, which broke out on October 21,2012, have worsened despite the induction of security forces reinforcements by the Government. While local Government sources have put the total number of fatalities so far at 20, a despatch of the Associated Press of [...]

Syria Eid Al-Adha Truce Fails

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The truce established in Syria by the international mediator Lakhdar Brahimi was “stillborn,” said Saturday rebel commander in Aleppo, calling the plan of the envoy a “failure.” “What a truce? This truce is a lie. How can a criminal regime observe a truce? It is a failure of Brahimi, this initiative is stillborn,” said Colonel [...]

East Coast States Bracing For Hurricane Sandy

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As East Coast states, cities and towns brace for Hurricane Sandy, emergency response personnel will implement the Homeland Security Department’s “All-Hazards Plan” that addresses man-made (terrorist attacks, industrial accidents) and natural (earthquakes, hurricanes) disasters, according to several police chiefs and unit commanders in the New York metropolitan area, which includes New Jersey and Connecticut. President [...]

Time For Putin To Wise Up – OpEd

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By William Dunkerley Recently I was interviewed by Alexei Pankin, one of Russia’s most distinguished journalists. His interview was published in the country’s largest newspaper, Komsomolskaya Pravda. I present it here with the consent of the interviewer and publisher: “Russia should stop shying away from defending itself in the foreign press” Is it true that [...]

Indonesia Arrests 11 Suspects Of US Embassy Attack Plot

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Indonesian police detained 11 people, suspected of planning terrorist attacks on the US embassy and other targets, in four provinces in Java, the Jakarta Post reported on Saturday. The suspected terrorists were members of a new group called Haraqah Sunni for Indonesian Society, or Hasmi, the Jakarta Post quoted National Police spokesman Suhardi Alius as [...]

Investigation Announced Into UK Death-Acceleration Programme

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After months of refusal and prevaricating, a probe has finally been announced into the conduct of Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP); a framework widely criticised by families whose relatives have unknowingly been placed on this ‘pathway to death.’ The Association of Palliative Medicine has ordered the review into the concerns. The National End of Life Care [...]

Is Housing About To Tank? – OpEd

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Well, what do you know; mortgage applications have fallen off a cliff. According to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) loan applications decreased by 12 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from one week earlier “registering the biggest percentage decline in a year as demand for both purchase loans and refinancings tumbled.” But how can that be, [...]

Drought In Texas – OpEd

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EVERYBODY IN Israel knows this story. When Levy Eshkol was Prime Minister, his assistants rushed up to him in panic: “Levy, there is a drought!” “In Texas?” Eshkol asked anxiously. “No, in Israel!” they said. “Then it doesn’t matter,” Eshkol assured them. “We can always get all the wheat we need from the Americans.” That [...]

Bangladesh: Journalist Gunned Down In Unexplained Circumstances‏

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Talhad Ahmed Kabid, a reporter with the Bangladeshi newspaper Dainik Narsingdi Bani, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in the Shalidah neighbourhood in the western town of Narsingdi. Reporters Without Borders said it wishes to express its sincere condolences to his family, friends and colleagues. The press freedom organization is concerned at the growing violence [...]

Indo – US Nexus In Afghanistan – Analysis

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The withdrawal of U.S and coalition forces from Afghanistan in 2014 is creating an opportunity for India to assume a bigger role in Afghanistan with the help of U.S and its allies. But this hypothesis needs to be examined carefully. Whether India has the muscle to take a leading role in Afghanistan? Can India stabilize [...]

Indo-Russian Partnership: Some Ponderables – Analysis

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By Monish Gulati The visit of the Russian President Vladimir Putin to India slated from 31 Oct to 01 Nov 2012 has been deferred to December 2012.Unresolved internal policy issues in the nuclear energy and telecom sector are indicated to be the reason. Significant developments in the Indo-Russian ties are expected in the coming days. [...]
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