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While the US Congress questions the legitimacy of the war on Libya, the Canadian parliament with one dissenting voice, votes in favor of extending Canada’s participation in an illegal and criminal military undertaking:
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Francis Boyle - Libya War Illegal? - Professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign and author of "Tackling America's Toughest Questions" / Drew Phillips & Gary Franchi: CopBlock.org
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Faced with Monday night’s House vote to withhold funding and demands from both parties to provide a justification for the conflict, the Obama Administration today claimed that the War Powers Act doesn’t not apply to the Libya War.
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Consider it the capstone to CIA Director Leon Panetta’s command of the drone war: the CIA’s drones are on their way to Yemen.
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President Barack Obama insisted that the current US military action in Libya was legal, rejecting rising criticism from Congress over the goals and justification of the operation.
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As NATO attacks continue in Libya, ex US Congresswoman and former presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney went to the country on a non-governmental fact-finding mission to see what exactly is going on in the war-torn country.
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NATO's chief will hold talks on Libya with British leaders on Wednesday after the alliance battered Moamer Kadhafi's forces even as its top brass raised concerns about the 11-week aerial war.
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A surpise late Monday vote saw the House of Representatives pass the Sherman Amendment to the military appropriations bill by a a vote of 248-163.
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Officials with Yemen’s Defense Ministry have confirmed that the US has been launching drone strikes on a daily basis against the nation in June, with more than 15 confirmed strikes already this month.
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The Taliban targeted top government officials in Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing 11 people in two suicide blasts and firing rockets at the vice president and interior minister, who escaped unhurt.
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Five Iraqi soldiers were killed on Wednesday in a spate of shootings against patrols and checkpoints in Baghdad and the main northern city of Mosul, security officials said.
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UK calls for probe after British programme appears to show executions of Tamil prisoners by troops at end of civil war.
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“With regard to the war in Libya, we believe that the law was violated. We have asked the courts to move to protect the American people from the results of these illegal policies”
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Former US representative and former Presidential candidate Cynthia Ann McKinney went to Libya on a non-Governmental fact-finding tour to find out what exactly is going on there.
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Stepping up a simmering constitutional conflict, House Speaker John A. Boehner warned President Obama on Tuesday that unless he gets authorization from Congress for his military deployment in Libya...
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House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, sent President Obama a letter Tuesday afternoon warning him that the operation in Libya will be violating the War Powers Resolution by this Sunday...
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Susanne Dahlgren writes frequently on Yemen. She is Academy of Finland research fellow with the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and the author of "Contesting Realities: The Public Sphere and Morality in Southern Yemen."
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It is already well-documented that the Obama Administration has been escalating the number of air strikes against targets inside Yemen. While the CIA has played a role in those military strikes...
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Susanne Dahlgren writes frequently on Yemen. She is Academy of Finland research fellow with the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and the author of "Contesting Realities: The Public Sphere and Morality in Southern Yemen."
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In the early years of the Iraq war, the U.S. military developed a technology so secret that soldiers would refuse to acknowledge its existence, and reporters mentioning the gear were promptly escorted out of the country.
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Former US congresswoman and presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney told RT she went to Libya because she wanted to know the truth.
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CIA chief and likely incoming Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has left Pakistan today after his high profile weekend visit to Pakistan ended with a failure to achieve any concessions from either the nation’s military chief or ISI head.
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Speaking today British Naval leader Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope warned that he was uncomfortable continuing Britain’s involvement in the War in Libya for more than another three months...
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Press TV reports that NATO has bombed a university in Tripoli, killing students and staff. “New images have emerged showing the aftermath of an alleged NATO air raid targeting Tripoli’s Nasser University.
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Speaking today on CBS’ Face the Nation, Senator Lindsey Graham (R – SC) said “we are getting very close” to the time when the United States would attack Syria, and that “now is the time to let Assad know that all options are on the table.”
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Bahrain received over $200 million (£125m) in military equipment from US companies in the 12 months from October 2009, according to the latest State Department arms export report.
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Forty years after the explosive leak of the Pentagon Papers, a secret government study chronicling deception and misadventure in U.S. conduct of the Vietnam War, the report is coming out in its entirety on Monday.
