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Case Tests Federal Supremacy Over Banks
11-26-2006
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Washington Post
The federal government and the banking industry will square off next week in the Supreme Court against all 50 states and the District of Columbia in a mortgage-lending case that could have broad implications for business regulation.
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Legislative Mischief
State asks lobbying firms to prove they can bribe Democrat-controlled Congress
11-26-2006
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American Statesman
Two state-paid lobbying firms under fire for their Republican-leaning work have been asked to show what strategy and staff changes they will make to build bridges with the new Democrat-controlled Congress, the governor's office said.
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Palestine -- Israel
Israel Rejects Palestinian Peace Offer
11-26-2006
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AP
The Palestinian prime minister said that militants were prepared to stop firing rockets at Israel if it would halt all military action in Palestinian territories. Israel rejected the offer, saying it would respond positively only to a total truce.
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World News
Swift in post-9/11 privacy breach
11-26-2006
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Financial Times
A leading bank transfer service breached European Union data privacy rules by giving US anti-terror investigators access to private financial information, EU monitors found. A growing clash between Brussels and Washington over the impact of anti-terr
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TERRORISM
US interference 'allowed terror gang to escape'
11-26-2006
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The Independent
A team of suspected terrorists involved in an alleged UK plot to blow up trans-atlantic airliners escaped capture because of interference by the United States. As a direct result of the surprise detention of a suspect, British police and MI5 were for
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NATO set to expand role to tackle WMD and terrorism
11-26-2006
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Financial Times
The NATO alliance, stretched by operations in Afghanistan, should further expand its role to include counter-terrorism, cyber-security and the security of natural resources, according to a classified document to be endorsed by presidents and p
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Domestic Policy
Boogeymongering
11-26-2006
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by Charley Reese (AntiWar)
There are over a half-million foreign students at American colleges; the US borders remain wide open; only 6% of the shipping containers are checked; and there is still a generous number of legal immigrants admitted. I offer this as an antidote to th
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Whistleblower Stephen Heller Says 'Diebold Cannot be Trusted to Run Elections in America'
11-26-2006
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BradBlog.com
Heller pled guilty yesterday in an agreement with Los Angeles prosecutors, after his arrest earlier this year on felony charges related to his release of attorney-client privileged documents he obtained while working as a temporary word-processor at
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Political Theory
Hail to the chief
11-26-2006
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Boston Globe(Charlie Savage)
In July 1987, then-Rep. Dick Cheney, the top Republican on the committee investigating the Iran-contra scandal, turned on his hearing room microphone and delivered, in his characteristically measured tone, a revolutionary claim.
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World News
Al-Sadr loyalists take over Iraqi TV Station
11-26-2006
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McClatchy
Followers of militant Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr took over state run TV Saturday to denouce the Iraqi government, label Sunnis "terrorists" and issue what appeared to many viewers as a call to arms. The 2 hour broadcast from a community
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WAR: About that War
CNN's John Roberts on Iraq
11-26--2006
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Atrois(Video)
John Roberts, CNN host of "This Week at War", spent a month there,and describes the situation in detail. Finally, a major news outlet is reporting what Dahr Jamail has been reporting for years
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Bush Administration
Articles of Impeachment against Bush and Cheney
11-26-2006
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Daily Kos
If we are to impeach, we must impeach both Bush and Cheney. It will not do any good for us to impeach Bush and have Cheney take the Oval Office and pick someone just as radical as he is. It will also not do any good for us to impeach just Cheney
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China filling void in UN Peacekeeping
11-26-2006
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Washington Post
When African nations began urging the deployment of peacekeepers to Somalia in June to prop up its embattled government, an unlikely nation stepped forward to support their call for action: China, which had long been wary of such interventions
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Energy
Russia attacks the West's achilles heel
11-26-2006
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Asia Times
Russia has found the Achilles' heel of the US colossus. In concert with its oil-producing partners and the rising powerhouse economies of the East, Russia is altering the foundations of the current US-led liberal oil-market order, insidiously wo
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WAR: About that War
Canadian allegedly leading insurgency
11-26-2006
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Toronto Star(Canada)
A top US military commander says the most disciplined, intense attacks from insurgency forces in Iraq to date are being masterminded by an Iraqi Canadian. Abu Abdul Rahman, who reportedly left Canada in 1995 after marrying an Iraqi woman
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US find Iraq insurgency has funds to sustain itself
11-26-2006
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New York Times
The insurgency in Iraq is now self-sustaining financially, raising tens of millions of dollars a year from oil smuggling, kidnapping, counterfeiting, corrupt charities and other crimes that the Iraqi government and its American patrons have been larg
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Conspiracies
Dead Russian Spy was Isreali Double Agent?
11-26-2006
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Wake Up From Your Slumber
Leonid Nevzlin, former CEO of the oil giant Yukos and current chairman of the Diaspora Museum in Tel Aviv, says the former Russian spy came to Isreal with classifed documents on Yukos which maybe damaging to Russian leaders.
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Reflexiones Libertarias
¿SE SOLT" EL TIGRE, O SON CHANGOS?
11-26-2006
Ricardo Valenzuela
En Mayo de 1911, al abordar el buque que lo llevaría a su exilio, Porfirio Díaz pronunció una premonitora sentencia: “Madero ha soltado el tigre, ahora veremos si puede controlarlo.”
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Slap on wrist for cop who shot and killed non-violent unarmed man
11-26-2006
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washingtonpost.com
Fairfax County police officials want to suspend for three weeks without pay the officer who accidentally shot and killed Salvatore J. Culosi, an unarmed optometrist being investigated for sports gambling, according to an internal affairs report.
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Opinion • More about Politics: General Activism
Constitution (Part 5): The Loss of the American Dream
11-25-2006
Dave Hodges
The first four parts of this series have clearly demonstrated that the present set of free trade agreements (e.g., CAFTA, NAFTA) and regional governmental overlays (i.e., North American Union) are illegal and constitute an end run around our constitu
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Hugo Chavez Holds Commanding Lead Eight Days Before Election
Stephen Lendman
Bush administration scheming to subvert the Venezuelan democratic process and oust Hugo Chavez
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A Rare Material and a Surprising Weapon
11-24-2006
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NY Times
If substantial amounts of polonium 210 were used to poison Alexander V. Litvinenko, whoever did it presumably had access to a high-level nuclear laboratory and put himself at some risk carrying out the assassination, experts said.
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Privacy Rights
Despite a Year of Ire and Angst, Little Has Changed on Wiretaps
11-24-2006
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NY Times
For all the sound and fury in the last year, the National Security Agency’s wiretapping program continues uninterrupted, with no definitive action by either Congress or the courts on what, if anything, to do about it, and little chance of a breakthro
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Iran
Russia sends air defense system to Iran
11-24-2006
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AP
Russia has begun delivery of Tor-M1 air defense missile systems to Iran, a Defense Ministry official said, confirming that Moscow would proceed with arms deals with Tehran in spite of Western criticism.
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Economy - Economics USA
Dollar loses ground against euro
11-24-2006
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BBC
The euro surged to $1.3086 against the dollar, with many other currencies following suit.
Sterling rose almost 1% to $1.93, the yen hit a two-month high and Russia's rouble rose to a seven-year high.
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Bush Administration
Gates Advocated Air Strikes on Nicaragua
11-24-2006
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Washington Post
In 1984, Robert Gates, then the No. 2 CIA official, advocated U.S. airstrikes against Nicaragua's pro-Cuban government to reverse what he described as an ineffective U.S. strategy to deal with communist advances in Central America, previously cla
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WAR: About that War
Iraq strategy takes page from Vietnam playbook
11-24-2006
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LA Times
New tactics favored by US commanders in Iraq borrow heavily from the end of another war: Vietnam. The tactics " an influx of military advisors and a speeded-up handover to indigenous forces followed by a gradual U.S. withdrawal " resemble Vietnam at
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Drug War
British troops wary of joining war on drugs in Afghanistan
11-24-2006
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AFP
Despite being urged to do so by Afghan and western counter-narcotics chiefs, British troops are wary of joining the offensive against the drugs trade in
Afghanistan.
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Domestic Policy
Trail of Tears: The Other American Round-up
11-24-2006
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AP
A bill approved by Congress calls for a federal study to better define the routes taken when more than 15,000 members of the Cherokee, Creek and other tribes were forced from their homes in 1838 to make way for white settlement. Untold thousands of N
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Iran
US in contact with anti-Iran Kurds: PKK
11-24-2006
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AFP
The United States government is in contact with Kurds struggling against
Iran, a top rebel leader of the anti-Turkish Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) told AFP.
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