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• Corporate Mercenary Blackwater Busted in Bribery Plan

  
  Plunderbund — Authority: 135
  More evidence that privatizing the military is a recipe for continued disaster:NYT: Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007 episode in which Blackwater security ...
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• Our Debt to Italy

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 158
  by David Swanson After Downing Street.org The United States of America owes much of the hope it has right now of remaining what John Adams called “a nation of laws, not men” to Italian law enforcement. Were it not for the fact that Italian prosecutors, unlike their American counterparts, answer to the law ...
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• Pentagon Identifies Army Casualties (OIF)

  
  THE TENSION — Authority: 445
  N ews in Balance: WASHINGTON, Nov. 10, 2009 -- The following news release made available Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Defense is the text of a statement identifying casualties: The Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died Nov. 8 in ...
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• Fragging statement: MSH and Anwar al Awlaki

  
  MSH — Authority: 128
  Fragging statement: MSH and Anwar al Awlaki (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) All the facts about the Fort Hood shootings are not in yet. The facts may never be fully known. After all, the bourgeois media, the accused’s handlers, and others, will try to craft their own narratives around the events. However, it ...
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• NYT > World: Blackwater Said to Approve Iraqi Payoffs After Shootings

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 468
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . Former executives said it was unclear if the payoffs of about $1 million were made, but the goal was to hush criticism and buy support after 17 civilians were killed in 2007.
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• Blackwater Attempted to Bribe Iraqi Officials

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 677
  By GottaLaff Jeremy Scahill will be on The Rachel Maddow Show tonight, so by tomorrow, well have video. Meantime, check out this bombshell: [T]op company officials including then-president Gary Jackson “authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence ...
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• The Brewing Storm Of Islam

  
  Conservative Central — Authority: 120
  The Brewing Storm Of Islam: Conning America Out of God (PT 1 of a series on Islam)   By Lisa Richards November 10, 2009 There is no such thing as radical Islam. The phrase is a politically correct expression used to prevent non-Muslims from condemning the religion of death. Heaven forbid anyone call the ...
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• Media Refuses to Call Fort Hood Shooting a Terrorist Attack

  
  Babeled - six guys who have never been in your kitchen — Authority: 121
  When Army Major Nadil Malik Hasan gave away his worldly possessions and cleaned out his apartment it was not an act of desperation or a moment of immense psychological stress.  It was in preparation for carefully calculated premeditated mass murder. When he spread anti-American propaganda to mentally distressed ...
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• A Disappointing Year With Obama

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 726
  By William Pfaff Who would have thought a year ago that most of the issues of conflict in America’s foreign relations would be made worse during the first year following Barack Obama’s election as U.S. president? READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries November 10, 2009 Bill Clinton Urges Senate Dems ...
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• Taliban warns US of more base attacks

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 589
  The Taliban has warned the United States of more attacks like the Fort Hood shooting rampage unless Washington ends its policies in Afghanistan and Iraq, the SITE Intelligence Group said on Tuesday. The Afghan militants also described the American army psychiatrist suspected of carrying out the shooting in Texas ...
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• Blackwater Said to Approve Iraqi Payoffs After Shootings

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  From left, Gary Jackson, then-president of Blackwater; Cofer Black, then-vice president of Blackwater; and Erik Prince, chairman and founder.
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• The making of an American soldier

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  When Ian Fisher signed up for the US army aged 18 at the height of the Iraq war in 2007, photographer Craig F Walker captured his journey
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• An astonishingly intimate portrait of a baby-faced soldier

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  The photographer Craig F Walker followed a young American soldier, Ian Fisher for over two years, from his recruitment to his return from Iraq. The result is a remarkable record of a young mans struggles to serve his nation There has been no shortage of front-line photography from Iraq. Images of boot camps, training ...
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• Major Nidal Hasan, Homeland Security, Presidential transition task force, George Washington University, Non partisan think tank, For the Administration taking office in January 2009

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 588
  Major Nidal Hasan, the Muslim shooter at Fort Hood, apparently was in attendance at the Homeland Security Policy Institute, Presidential Transition Task Force. From the Task Force report. “Initiated by HSPI’s Steering Committee in Spring 2008, the Task Force sought to further policy discussions of the top ...
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• Well, Now We Know Why It Took So Long for Iraq to Kick Blackwater Out

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 781
  As DeLong noted , Blackwater lost its license to operate in Iraq in 2007, after its security officers gunned down innocent civilians in Baghdad’s Nisour Square. Yet Blackwater didn’t actually leave Iraq until earlier this year , and even then it didn’t really leave. Many of its security guards were allowed ...
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• Support veterans on Veterans Day

  
  This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here — Authority: 601
  Dear supporter We are asking you to make a donation on veterans day to Iraq Veterans Against the War. Not much thought is given to the actual veterans who have been to war on veterans day but we must realize that they are a community that has been deeply scared by [...]
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• The Frontlines

  
  Pedestrian — Authority: 138
  [from Agh Bahman] A few days ago, I read this piece in the blog, Sayeh Roshan and shared it on Google Reader: In every protest or demonstration, a small percentage of the protesters make up the frontlines. Every time, they come back home in tatters. Every time, some drifter’s bullet barely misses their head. ...
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• Obama Wrong To Mention Religion In Fort Hood Speech

  
  CAFFEINATED POLITICS — Authority: 528
  There is a very fine line to walk regarding Islam and religion when the whole world is watching.  I made that point in various ways when President Bush was in office, and remain convinced the same is true with President Obama in charge.  That I expect more from our current leader makes the use of religion [...]
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• Blackwater Authorized Payments to Iraqi Officials Following Nisour Square Massacre

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 781
  Breaking news from The New York Times: Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007 episode in which Blackwater security guards fatally shot 17 Iraqi civilians in ...
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• Blackwater Authorized $1 Million in Secret Payments to Silence Iraqi Officials

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 729
  To buy their silent support. The NYTimes : Four former Blackwater executives said in interviews that Gary Jackson, who was then the company’s president, had approved the bribes, and the money was sent from Amman, Jordan, where Blackwater maintains an operations hub, to a top manager in Iraq. The executives, ...
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