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Rawalpindi—Former Inter-Services-Inetlligence chief Hamid Gul on Sunday dismissed as “nonsense” reports that Pakistan has agreed to arrest and hand him over to India in connection with the probe into the Mumbai terror attacks.
“It is nonsense, it is disinformation because (Secretary of State) Condoleezza Rice and America want my name to be included,” Gul told a private Indian channel from Rawalpindi.
He was reacting to a Washington Post report that said Pakistan has agreed to a 48-hour (…)

Some very courageous Turkish academics and writers have risked backlash and issued an Open Letter making an Apology for the Turkey-inflicted WW1 Armenian Genocide that killed as many as 1.5 million Armenians (for a recent news report see The Age, Melbourne, “Uproar over apology to Armenians”: ).
These courageous Turkish intellectuals – notably scholars, Ahmet Insel, Baskin Oran and Professor Cengiz Aktar (from Istanbul’s University of Bahcesehir), and a journalist, Ali Bayramoglu - risk (…)

Taliban burn Western forces’ supplies
For a second night running, Pakistani Taliban torched dozens of containers full of supplies meant for Western forces in Afghanistan, in a brazen raid on the outskirts of Peshawar, officials and witnesses said. Having set ablaze close to 100 trucks, some carrying military vehicles, in the early hours of Sunday, the militants struck again on Monday, this time hitting a container terminal two kilometres away from the first attack. "The militants (…)

A vast hunk of floating ice has broken away from the Antarctic peninsula, threatening the collapse of a much larger ice shelf behind it, in a development that has shocked climate scientists.
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Satellite images show that about 160 square miles of the Wilkins ice shelf has been lost since the end of February, leaving the ice interior now "hanging by a thread".
The collapsing shelf suggests that climate change could be forcing change much more quickly than scientists had predicted. (…)

Zmag December 08, 2008
Source: AlterNet.org
By Jeremy Scahill
The New York Times is reporting an "apparent evolution" in president-elect Barack Obama’s thinking on Iraq, citing recent statements about his plan to keep a "residual force" in the country and his pledge to "listen to the recommendations of my commanders" as Obama prepares to assume actual command of U.S. forces.
Source: blogimages
"At the Pentagon and the military headquarters in Iraq, the response to the statements (…)

Employability
Employability is a point around which the Bologna Declaration has based its rhetoric of the positive forces of the free market.
The Bologna Declaration sustains rhetoric of employability that is central to the redefinition of HE as an economic system. It promotes tools like the Diploma Supplement (a document giving more information about the contents of a qualification earned) aimed at increasing the depth and comparability of degrees across Europe. This is supposed to make (…)

Depression 2009: What would it look like?
by Drake Bennett
Global Research, December 7, 2008 Boston Globe - 2008-11-16
Over the past few months, Americans have been hearing the word "depression" with unfamiliar and alarming regularity. The financial crisis tearing through Wall Street is routinely described as the worst since the Great Depression, and the recession into which we are sinking looks deep enough, financial commentators warn, that a few poor policy decisions could put us in (…)

Merchants of Death: Exposing Corporate Financed Holocaust in Africa
by Keith Harmon Snow
Global Research, December 7, 2008 www.allthingspass.com - 2008-12-05
War in Congo has again been splashed across world headlines and the same old clichés about violence and suffering are repackaged and rebroadcast as "news". Meanwhile, early indications out of America are that President-elect Barack Obama will assemble a foreign policy-team primed for business as usual.
How will Hillary Clinton (…)

USA LOSES IN AN ECONOMICS WAR AND IS NOW A DEFEATED AND CONQUERED NATION
Published 12/06/08 Thomas Heffner - Print Article E-mail - editor@economyincisis.org
USA Loses In An Economics War And Is Now A Defeated and Conquered Nation with a destroyed industrial infrastructure, forced to live on imports and on credit from anyone who will offer it. Here is how it happened:
Americans have been defeated in an economics war with consequences as meaningful and damaging as if having lost a (…)

If Pakistan did not act swiftly to arrest the people involved, the Senator said, India would be left with no option but to conduct aerial operations against select targets in Pakistan.
Sunday, Dec 07, 2008 Nirupama Subramanian
ISLAMABAD: United States Senator John McCain has said there is enough evidence of the involvement of former Inter-Services Intelligence officers in the planning and execution of the Mumbai attacks.
If Pakistan did not act swiftly to arrest the people involved, (…)