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Feds Probe a Top Democrat's Relationship with AIPAC
10-21-2006
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Time
Did a Democratic member of Congress improperly enlist the support of a major pro-Israel lobbying group to try to win a top committee assignment? That's the question at the heart of an ongoing investigation by the FBI and Justice Department prosec
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Internet
Court refuses to protect spam from filters
10-21-2006
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Raw Story
A judge has ruled in favor of The Spamhaus Project, a spam-tracking website that an e-mail marketing company was trying to take offline, National Journal's 'Technology Daily' reports.
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Iran
The Next War
10-21-2006
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Harpers
A hidden crisis is under way. Many government insiders are aware of serious plans for war with Iran, but Congress and the public remain largely in the dark. The current situation is very like that of 1964, the year preceding our overt, open-ended esc
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WAR: About that War
Iraq: Leave Or Be Forced Out
10-21-2006
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by Gareth Porter (TomPaine)
George W. Bush continues to use the rhetorical device of linking the occupation of Iraq with the war on terrorism, warning in his most recent press conference that “the terrorists would take control of Iraq” if the U.S. withdrew its forces.
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Iran
Push for military strikes against Iran
10-21-2006
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by Gregory Cockran (American Conservative)
Al-Qaeda hasn’t managed to do anything at all in the US since 9/11. This is not because the Feds have made it impossible for foreigners to sneak into the country...it is not because our nation have been guarded and hardened to the point of invulnerab
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WAR: About that War
Pat Tillman's brother speaks out
10-21-2006
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Kevin Tillman
It is Pat’s birthday on November 6, and elections are the day after. It gets me thinking about a conversation I had with Pat before we joined the military. He spoke about the risks with signing the papers.
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Foreign Policy
Neocrazy Media Nuke Cover-up
10-21-2006
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by Gordon Prather (AntiWar)
President Clinton was hell-bent on getting every country to not only become an NPT signatory but to sign and ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
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Israel
Israel and U.S. agree: Not to talk with Syria
10-20-2006
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Haaretz
A few short weeks ago, Public Security Minister Avi Dichter told Army Radio, with regard to peace talks with Syria, that "if it turned out that there was someone to talk to and something to talk about, the idea would be right."
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Iraq PM Blocks Civilian Death Toll Release
10-20-2006
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AP
Iraq's prime minister has barred the Health Ministry from releasing alarming casualty figures that showed violence in Iraq was killing 100 civilians a day and provided a rare insight into the worsening sectarian conflict, according to an internal
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WAR: About that War
Shiite militia briefly seizes Amarah
10-20-2006
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AP
Black-uniformed, hooded gunmen loyal to an anti-American Shiite cleric briefly seized the major southern city of Amarah in an audacious drive against local security forces, largely controlled by
Iraq's other main Shiite militia.
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Voting and Elections
Supreme Court upholds Arizona's photo ID law for elections
10-20-2006
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Amanda Crawford
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that Arizona can go ahead with requiring voters to present a photo ID, starting with next month's general election, as part of the Proposition 200 that voters passed in 2004.
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The Military Commissions Act: Mary Stromberg asks a question of educators in Alabama
Melinda Pillsbury-foster
Mary Stromberg, a grandmother from Alabama, was worried when Congress passed the Act in September but when Bush signed it on October 27th she wrote letters to every educator in Alabama asking how this would be explained to children. That is a questi
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CNN is taking a position -- "the government is broken"
10-20-2006
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CNN via www.mediabistro.com
The first of the "Broken Government" series aired Thursday at 7pm, hosted by Jack Cafferty. "It's my fervent hope that every single incumbent on the ballot will lose. It's time to start over."
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Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Judge: 4 Officers Are Danger To Society
10-20-2006
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nbc5.com
Prosecutors offered up 11 specific cases in which the officers abused their police authority by invading homes, stealing money and drugs, kidnapping and otherwise terrorizing their suspects. It took the assistant state's attorney more than an hou
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Police State
Three recent DHS attempts to curtail travel rights identified
10-20-2006
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papersplease.org
...This is the third of three identification-related “rulemakings” in the last month and a half in which the DHS has proposed to restrict the right to travel. IDP has filed formal objections to each of these proposals:
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Economy - Economics USA
Australian Treasurer Seeks Orderly Withdrawal From U.S. Dollar
10-20-2006
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Sydney Morning Herald (kudos Mark Y.)
Central banks in China, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong have channelled immense foreign reserves into American government bonds, helping to prop up the US dollar and hold down American interest rates.
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Opinion • More about Politics: Republican Campaigns
Republicans Deserve To Lose
10-20-2006
Chuck Baldwin
The foibles of the current power structure in Washington, D.C., continue to mount. It has gotten so bad that it is becoming extremely difficult to tell who the good guys are anymore.
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Nuthin’ but Net: The AAA Factor
10-20-2006
Dave Hodges
The internet is the last bastion of media freedom. The internet will soon constitute the major way that individuals obtain their news and information. The internet is immediate, detailed and unlike the mainstream media, it is completely uncensored, u
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World News
N. Korean leader regrets test
10-20-2006
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AP
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il expressed regret about his country's nuclear test to a Chinese delegation and said Pyongyang would return to international nuclear talks if Washington backs off a campaign to financially isolate the country.
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Corruption
Facing corruption probe Congressman fires investigative staff
10-20-2006
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TPMmuckracker
House Appropriations chairman Jerry Lewis (R-CA) is under federal investigation for possible improprieties in how he oversaw Congress' spending of $900 billion annually. Monday Lewis fired 60 investigators who had worked for his committee rooting
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Central Intelligence Agency
Terror Suspect Says CIA Recruited Him
10-20-2006
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AP
A former university professor charged with plotting to bankroll Hamas terrorists was once asked by the CIA whether he wanted a job as a spy, his attorney told a jury.
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Economy - Economics USA
The Security-Industrial-Congressional Complex (SICC)
10-20-2006
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by Robert Higgs (Lew Rockwell)
Bringing our fellow Americans to a greater understanding of the evils of a government-dominated society and the virtues of a free society has always been difficult and frustrating work. It's no wonder that Albert Jay Nock likened it to Isaiah'
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Jose Padilla and the Military Commissions Act
10-20-2006
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by Bumper Hornberger (FFF)
Anyone who hoped that US military detention of Americans accused of terrorism expired with the transfer of American citizen Jose Padilla from military custody to Justice Dept. custody have seen their hopes dashed by the Military Commissions Act that
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Immigration
Agents Are Sentenced in Border Shooting
10-20-2006
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LA Times
Two U.S. Border Patrol agents were watching the Mexican boundary last year when they stopped a van carrying 743 pounds of marijuana. The driver fled back across the Rio Grande -- with a gunshot wound in his buttocks.
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WAR: About that War
White House rejects some Iraq strategy options
10-20-2006
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Reuters
The White House rejected two options for changing course in Iraq as a high-profile commission works to give President George Bush recommendations in coming weeks on ways to shift strategy in the unpopular war.
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Iraq propaganda program legal: Pentagon report
10-20-2006
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Reuters
The U.S. military acted legally when it hired a contractor to pay Iraqi news organizations to run pro-American stories, the
Pentagon's inspector general has found.
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Corruption
Agency extends limo company's corrupt contract
10-20-2006
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AP
A limousine company caught up in a congressional bribery scandal is having its Homeland Security contract extended, several months after angry Capitol Hill hearings into why the contract was awarded in the first place.
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New US anti-terror law undermines international law: ICRC
10-20-2006
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AFP
The International Committee of the Red Cross said that a controversial new anti-terror law approved by
President George W. Bush this week undermined international humanitarian law.
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Military
Troops' debt a growing security concern
10-20-2006
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AP
Thousands of US troops are being barred from overseas duty because they are so deep in debt they are considered security risks. The number has climbed dramatically in the past few years. Occurring when the armed forces are stretched thin by the wars
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Politics: Republican Campaigns
Calif. GOP candidate urged to exit race by GOP
10-20-2006
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LA Times
Orange County Republican leaders called for the withdrawal of a GOP congressional candidate they believe sent a letter threatening Hispanic immigrant voters with arrest.
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