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AFRICOM and Uganda's Dance with Death
Dallas Darling, Truthout: "AFRICOM, or US African Command, established in 2008, is a unified Pentagon command center in Africa and is presented as a humanitarian guard in the global war on terror. However,... ...
Crony capitalism and corporate welfare: Is this $30 billion worth of corruption?
Downsize DC by Jim Babka 06/25/10 Do mere politicians really know how much credit should be given to small businesses? They sure seem to think so. The House voted to pass something called the ‘Small... ...
Study foretold a consequence of oil leak
Boston Globe 06/21/10 It wasn’t until seven weeks after the BP oil well began gushing that the company acknowledged oil remained hidden under the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, and it continues to dispute... ...
What Price Afghanistan?
By Pat Buchanan It is simply not credible that the United States and its NATO allies, some of whom - like the Dutch - are pulling out, can prevail in this war in 12 months so America can begin coming... ...
How Taxpayers Are Subsidizing BP's Disaster Through the Pentagon
US Taxpayers: Pay for Nuclear Plants, Stuck with Nuclear Waste http://www.commondre ams.org/headline/2010/06/1 7-7 -------- How Taxpayers Are Subsidizing BP's Disaster Through the Pentagon Nick Turse,... ...
Massive Spill Forces Fossil Fuels Rethinking
http://www.commondreams.or g/headline/2010/06/16-8 T he Gulf and Our Oily Campaign-Finance System http://www.commondr eams.org/headline/2010/06/ 16-3 A 'Nightmare Well' Now Everyone's Nightmare http://www.commo ndreams.org/headline/2010/ 06/16-6 Day... ...
Trillion-dollar war
The Nation Blog by Robert Dreyfuss 06/15/10 Variou s estimates have suggested that the war in Afghanistan might cost the United States a trillion dollars. Now we find out that it’s worth it: Afghanistan... ...
McChrystal Faces Massive Failure in Afghanistan in Next Few Months
By Gareth Porter On Thursday, McChrystal's message that his strategy will weaken the Taliban in its heartland took its worst beating thus far, when he admitted that the planned offensive in Kandahar City... ...
US has discovered $1 trillion in mineral deposits in Afghanistan
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a- world-news-mainmenu-35/973 0/ -------- What Could $1 Trillion in Mineral Wealth Mean for Afghanistan? Tom A. Peter, The Christian Science Monitor: "US and Afghan officials claim... ...
US 'Desperately' Trying to Keep Wikileaks from Publishing US Communications About Arab States
By Philip Shenon Pentagon investigators are trying to determine the whereabouts of the Australian-born founder of the secretive website Wikileaks for fear that he may be about to publish a huge cache... ...