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President Barack Obama campaigned on energy issues on Wednesday , visiting a handful of oil wellheads on Federal land in New Mexico and a solar installation in Boulder City, Nevada. The subtext of this Obama campaign is public unhappiness with the price of gasoline and the hypocritical attacks on him over this issue by his Republican opponents. The fact is that there is only one thing Obama could have done to bring down oil prices, and that would have been to veto the National Defense Authorization Act until Congress took back out the provisions for crippling sanctions on Iran. Republicans back these sanctions to the hilt, which is why it is dishonest of them to attack Obama on high gas prices. US politicians won’t say it. But Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund, has made it clear that the Israeli-US campaign against Iran, into which they have dragooned Europe, could put up petroleum prices by as much as 30% and endanger the world economic recovery.
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12:54 pm ET - Staff Sgt. Robert Bales joined the Army shortly after the 911 terrorist attacks, and he served three tours in Iraq before being sent to Afghanistan. Now he sits in the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, charged with killing 16 Afghan villagers.
We continue our interview with ousted Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed and ask him if he plans to seek office again. "I will contest the coming elections," Nasheed says, noting that, "if the coup was so popular, we would have seen people coming out, rejoicing with the military." [includes rush transcript]
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday no jobs were created in August. Zero. Nada.
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Central casting has taken wallops from both sides over their various ethnic interpretations of characters from Suzanne Collins' YA dystopian trilogy as they're being converted to the big screen. Here we go again. More » You've probably noticed it already, but let's just say it out loud: Hollywood is a mess . Serious, serious problems. And, according to one insider, Hollywood's leading ladies have it really bad.
AATW - Anarchists against the wall
In Bil'in, Demonstrators dressed as Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan, hunger striking for 62 days. This Friday's march marked 7 years for the struggle against the wall.
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by Altaf Husain On the anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s death, Howard University Assistant Professor and Institute for Social Policy and Understanding Fellow Altaf Husain reflects on how King’s legacy has shaped Muslim Americans’ work for social justice. (Source: Common Ground News Service (CGNews), 3 April 2012) by Nada Akl Can you picture an Arab man?
Islam sits upright on the edge of the sofa in her living room. “I was born in Aida camp,” she says, “but my family is from Beit Natiff, in 1948.” To Islam, to the 5,000 refugees populating Bethlehem Aida Camp and to most Palestinians, 1948 is…
Palestine Monitor
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Ayoub Asalya , 12, was going to school on Sunday morning when he was killed by an Israeli missile. On the walls of his house there is a poster with his image. Ayoub is shown smiling with a cap on his head. “The nights before he was killed, he came to me stating that he was afraid to sleep alone in his room because of the attacks,” his mother told us. I have read several accounts over the last few days of how life in Southern Israel has become unbearable for the people living there. In retaliation for the latest provocation by Israel over 200 rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel. 11 people were injured, one seriously.
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In an interview with Voice of America's Urdu Service, Marc Grossman, the U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, talks about efforts to reopen NATO supply routes from Pakistan into Afghanistan. Grossman spoke on the sidelines of the two-day NATO summit in Chicago.Carbon Carousel: European Market a Haven for Tax Fraud A tax scandal has been rocking the global carbon markets. Ironically, it is emanating from Copenhagen, the city that six months ago hosted the world's largest climate summit. ...