Monday, November 23:

Rob Kall: China Buys Hummer Brand-- Further Evidence of a Shock Doctrine Assaulted America? (17 comments) Naomi Klein described, in her breaktrhough book, Shock Doctrine, how a nation is attacked, shocked and torn apart, destroying the middle class. It looks like the GM sale of Hummer to a wealthy Chinese investor, probably with the help of Morgan Stanley, is an example of how it's happening in the US.

Stephen Lendman: Targeting Muslim Charities in America (3 comments) Targeting the innocent is the face of a police state.

Sunday, November 22:

Ann Garrison: Planting bio-fuels, in Rwanda, while Rwandans go hungry Rwanda's greatest natural resource is its fertile agricultural land, but most is centralized in the hands of government elites and planted in export crops, coffee, tea, flowers, and soon, bio-fuels----while Rwandans go hungry.

Saturday, November 21:

Liz Grover: *My Experience in Afghanistan & My Message to President Obama Liz Grover, an activist who lived and worked in Afghanistan for two years, makes her please to President Obama to use dialogue and genuinely listen to what the Afghan people want.

Rick Rozoff: Rumors Of Coups And War: U.S., NATO Target Latin America Rumors Of Coups And War: U.S., NATO Target Latin America

Friday, November 20:

James Brett: Reasons Not to Abandon Afghanistan While looking for reasons to stay in Afghanistan, it would be beneficial to check out some of the assumptions being bandied about these days.

Abbas Sadeghian, Ph.D.: My Comrade is an Octopus;The case for the war in Afghanistan: (16 comments) The American system of government is like a giant octopus. It is the biggest octopus you have ever seen. He has taken large areas for himself, and he is not scared of anybody.

Tuesday, November 24:

Obama, Teabaggers, Foreign Policy and Asia As Obama and the Democrats contemplate a new strategy for Afghanistan they should consider integrating fiscal discipline and limited government into their decision-making on this central foreign policy issue. After all, reducing and not expanding U.S. military in Afghanistan (and Iraq, and Korea, and Japan, and") would help control the spending by the federal government and reduce the deficit.

Monday, November 23:

The Memory Scrub About Why Ft. Hood Happened Is Almost Complete ... If It Weren't for Archives What happened to all the initial reports that accused Fort Hood killer Maj. Nidal Hasan snapped because he was distraught over the Army's refusal to grant him either a discharge or an exemption from being deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, wars which the Muslim psychiatrist abhorred?

Saturday, November 21:

Yes Virginia: Bob Dylan is a Santa Claus, Rachel Corrie a Light unto the Nations and The Wall Must Fall Yes, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist"

Wednesday, November 25:

Study shows government contract fraud is hitting disabled veterans In a case-study of 10 firms, including one Florida company, the Government Accountability Office found ineligible companies had won about $100 million worth of contracts earmarked for service-disabled veteran-owned companies.

Tuesday, November 24:

Don Lieber: Depleted Uranium, The Emerging Radiation Crisis in Iraq and US Students: Vermont Takes Lead with Divestment (1 comments) The University of Vermont voted to divest from companies which produce Depleted Uranium weapons, as reports from Iraq are beginning to detail an emering radiation crisis. The U of V appears to be the first US Universityh to take this action.

Iraq inquiry: British officials heard 'drum beats' of war from US before 9/11 British officials heard the "drum beats" of war with Iraq emanating from the US government more than two years before the 2003 invasion and several months before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Sir John Chilcot's Iraq inquiry has heard.

Monday, November 23:

Ann Garrison: Rwanda Green Party activists claim illegal detention Saboteurs disrupted the Rwandan Green Party's fourth attempt to meet, on 10.30.2009, which was then shut down by police. Today's Rwandan News Agency reports that eight Rwanda Greens charge they were illegally arrested and detained during the following week, and that they have now been prevented from convening again.

Pakistan's Battle with Taliban Militants Expands North Pakistan's Army says that while the South Waziristan offensive has taken out the country's largest Taliban sanctuary, militants falling back into Orakzai could become the military's next focus, Bloomberg reports. (Click here for a map of Pakistan that includes Orakzai, Peshawar, and South Waziristan.)

Sunday, November 22:

Gitmo Boy Celebrates Eid in Afghanistan by Hossam el-Hamalawy Mohammad was twelve when he was sent to Gitmo. After seven years, he is free

Patrick J. O'Donoghue: Venezuela's Chavez wants to see a united PSUV coming out of weekend congress Addressing delegates to the extraordinary congress of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), President Chavez lambasted the cynical remarks of Colombian Foreign Minister, Jaime Bermudez who said he was disappointed in the silence shown by the South American Union of Nations (Unasur) to President Chavez' war-mongering discourse.

Saturday, November 21:

Eileen Fleming: Gilo and Last Straws (3 comments) This week's announcement of Israel's plan to build 900 more dwellings in Gilo with a price tag of NIS 1.86 million for a 5-room apartment has garnered international criticism as well as from the US.

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