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John Burns, the chief foreign correspondent for The New York Times, is answering questions about an article in Wednesday’s paper about Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Ahmed Wali Karzai, who is accused of having ties to the nation’s opium trade, has been on the C.I.A. payroll since 2001, according to the article.
By John F. Burns
For those charged with finding a path for America through the political and military minefield of Afghanistan, it has been a (…)

Congress to weigh in on U.N.’s Gaza report House resolution calls the findings ’irredeemably biased’ By Glenn Kessler Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, October 31, 2009
The US House of Representatives on Tuesday is poised to pass a nonbinding resolution condemning a controversial U.N. report on alleged Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip that has become a major complication in Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s diplomacy in the Middle East this weekend.
Clinton will meet (…)

And remember, if a certain 2000 year old cult, that worships a man whose mother had never had sex, who was executed, who then descended into the pits of Hell, after which he became an "undead", wandering around and scaring former friends, finally disappearing into the sky, sending a ghost to visit his friends who then wandered around ritually transforming bread and wine into the undead friend’s flesh and blood which they ate and drank, promising other cult members that if they participated (…)

On the evening of October 29, 2009, in Baltimore, MD, Richard Becker, an author, political commentator and activist, discussed his new book, “Palestine, Israel and the U.S. Empire.” He is on a national speaking tour. See for background: http://www.pslweb.org/site/PageServer?pagename=PalestineBook
Mr. Becker is also the Western Regional Coordinator for the ANSWER Coalition. Check out: http://answer.pephost.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ANS_homepage The venue for the book talk was at “Sweet (…)

On Oct. 29, 2009, four activists, who support a Medicare for All solution to our healthcare crisis, were arrested in Baltimore, MD, for trespassing. They were engaged in a “patients before profits sit-in” at a 17-story tower, which houses an office of the insurance giant, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield. It’s located in the Canton area of the city. The demonstration was part of an ongoing national campaign by the “Mobilization for Health Care for All” group. The protest included the staging (…)

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Ever since America was founded, two of its fundamental institutions—its legal system and its system of higher education—have been synonymous with ethics, integrity and fairness.
But beneath the Statue of Justice’s blindfold and within the confines of academia’s ivory towers lurk amoralities, mendacities and biases so virulent that even Machiavelli would blush.
Even those who just cursorily follow the news in America cannot help but notice that scarcely a month (and sometimes scarcely a (…)

24 October is United Nations Day but has also been nominated as 350 Day by 350.org and other climate activists who , informed by top scientists, are informing the world that 350 parts per million (ppm) carbon dioxide (CO2) is the highest level of CO2 permissible for a safe planet. Indeed, top climate scientists and the prestigious, umpteen Nobel Laureate UK Royal Society state that the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration must be returned to 300-350 parts per million (ppm) ASAP (…)

Date : May 13,2002
Source : ASHGABAT (PPA) —
European and Russian observers have voiced similar opinion that, in all likelihood, India may have engineered the recent brutal killing of French engineers in Karachi who were overseeing construction of Khalid class (Agosta B90) submarines, reports PPA correspondents Tariq Saeedi in Ashgabat and Sergi Pyatakov in Moscow.
"Only India stands to benefit from this massacre [of French engineers]," said a western European diplomat based in (…)

China to use ASEAN meet to make Yuan an international currency
Saibal Dasgupta , TNN 23 October 2009, 07:03pm IST BEIJING: China is set to use the ASEAN meet to sell the idea of making the Yuan an international currency. It is using the sense of uncertainty over the US dollar to sell a new dream of enlarged regional trade, financial support from Beijing and reduced dependence on the volatile dollar.
China has also offered to contribute nearly one-third of the $120 billion economic (…)