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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz

After Afghan Foreign Ministry officials claimed that peace talks with the Taliban are “on track,” the Taliban was quick to issue a statement to reiterate that no talks have ever taken place with the Karzai government, and that the stalled US talks ha

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http://www.npr.org, by Jackie Northam

President Barack Obama holds a bilateral summit with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda at the White House Monday. It's the first such meeting between U.S. and Japanese leaders in three years.

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http://rt.com

Four months after US President Barack Obama authorized the US military to indefinitely detain American citizens without charge or trial, lawmakers in Virginia have voted to refuse to abidy by the provision of the NDAA.

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http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com, By Josh Rogin

Two top Obama administration officials said today that the diplomatic initiative to end the violence in Syria, led by U.N. Special Envoy Kofi Annan, "is failing."

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http://www.inthesetimes.org, By Michelle Chen

As the media swarmed over the scandal surrounding the Secret Service’s alleged carousing with prostitutes in Colombia, another questionable financial transaction slipped quietly through the backdoor of hemispheric diplomacy.

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http://www.prisonplanet.com, CHARLIE SAVAGE

One Saturday last fall, President Obama interrupted a White House strategy meeting to raise an issue not on the agenda. He declared, aides recalled, that the administration needed to more aggressively use executive power to govern in the face of Cong

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Charles Goyette on LewRockwell.com

Are high gas prices the only thing between us and a war with Iran? Is Obama's re-election the reason that we don't find ourselves caught up in another needless mideast war? Do we have oil speculators to thank for it?

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http://www.salon.com, By Glenn Greenwald

There are many evils in the world, but extinguishing people’s lives with targeted, extra-judicial killings, when you don’t even know their names, based on “patterns” of behavior judged from thousands of miles away, definitely ranks high on the list.