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• Sure, sure. A "meteor" is what hit the Moon

  
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  The explosion was visible from the Earth with the naked eye, and caught on video: But "meteor"?  Please.  We all know what happened: Obama needs to show that hes tough on foreign policy to get the Benghazi controversy to die down.  He dusted off IMAOs Nuke The Moon strategy: Now the world will be pretty ...
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• Archaeology versus copper mining in Afghanistan

  
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  When the Taliban blew up Buddhist statues, its religious intolerance. When an entire Buddhist archaeological site is razed for a $3 billion mining contract, its economic development.
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• Under the black flag of al-Qaeda, the Syrian city ruled by gangs of extremists

  
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  Telegraph:  The black flag of al-Qaeda flies high over Raqqa’s main square in front of the smart new governor’s palace, its former occupant last seen in their prison. Their fighters, clad also in black, patrol the streets, or set up positions behind sandbags. Image 1 of 2 Fighters from Jabhat al-Nusrah, ...
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• Lost in Paradise: The Chained-Up Mentally Ill of Bali, Part 1

  
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  Published on Spiegel Online International , by Karin Kuntz, May 10, 2013. ( Photo Gallery ). Not far from the glistening beaches of Bali, mentally ill people are kept in chains or locked up in small shacks. Locals simply don’t know what else to do with them. But psychiatrist Luh Ketut Suryani has made it her job ...
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• Geopolitics / Syria – The Thin Red Line

  
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  - New Yorker – Inside the White House debate over Syria.
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• CNN: CIA talking points on Benghazi attack changed 12 times to protect Obama

  
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• IMF demands further austerity in Greece

  
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  Published on World Socialist Web Site WSWS, by Robert Stevens, 10 May 2013. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued a “Concluding Statement” May 3 demanding there be no relaxation of the austerity programme it has imposed on an already severely impoverished Greek population. The statement follows the ...
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• Arms Trade Treaty: Why India abstained

  
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  Arms Trade Treaty, originally conceived to control illicit arms trade, has been hijacked and converted into an instrument of coercion favouring a few arms exporting countries in the West. The world’s largest arms exporter controlling almost 30 percent of the arms trade voted for adopting the treaty with the ...
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• Banks, Drugs, Money Laundring

  
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  some links : U.S. Vulnerabilities to Money Laundering, Drugs, and Terrorist Financing: HSBC Case History (or http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-112shrg76061/html/CHRG-112shrg76061.htm ); same on Homeland Security and Government Affairs: permanent subcommittee on Investigations ; Broadening and Connecting the ...
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• Middle East & Arab World in 2013

  
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  The fallacy of the phrase, ‘the Muslim world’ Western media reinforces stereotypes by reducing a complex set of causes to the rage into an amorphous mass. (Al Jazeera) The media should instead pay more attention to individual states, conflicts and leaders, since dictatorship and factionalism have been as ...
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• Water and people

  
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  [ by Charles Cameron -- and then of course there are animals and plants, too, and wildfires, and the Grand Canyon ] . Just a couple of things to think about: Sources: More than half of the world’s population lives inside this circle Even more mindblowing: said circle is mostly water. All of the ...
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• Victory Day parade 2013 video

  
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  Theres some seriously cool military hardware on display. Whats that Humvee looking vehicle?
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• Iran’s Presidential Election In June A Crucial Event

  
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  Iran will hold presidential elections on June 14, and this will test the country’s political stability and appetite for confrontation with the West and Israel. The incumbent president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has generally pursued a confrontational policy towards the US and Israel, but he is not eligible for a third ...
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• Worker Cooperatives: Retooling the Solidarity Economy

  
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  Published on Center for a Stateless Society , by Sebastian A.B., April 30, 2013. Under the cooperative model, workers own the business, reducing injustice because they have a stake in the community and because an individual will find it hard to exploit oneself. Workers often buy into their jobs (upfront or ...
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• The Eighties in Theory and Practice: Gabriel Solis’s Opening Remarks

  
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  [On May 2-3, 2013 the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory hosted “The Eighties in Theory and Practice,” a conference. Gabriel Solis (Musicology) opened the second day of the conference. His remarks are below.] Welcome, and it’s my pleasure to introduce the second day of the Unit for Criticism and ...
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• Perchance to Dream

  
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  I’ve been spending some time on the blogs lately and wow, the rage and hopelessness are overwhelming.  Rage from the cuckolded tea party, rage from the flummoxed left.  And everyone’s outrage is The Worst Thing...
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• Pakistan

  
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  Good historical background and geopolitical analysis Robert D. Kaplan: What’s Wrong with Pakistan? Why geography — unfortunately — is destiny for South Asia’s troubled heartland. (Foreign Policy July/August 2012) Perversity characterizes Pakistan. Only the worst African hellholes, Afghanistan, Haiti, ...
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• ’3 explosions heard in Tehran near missile facility’

  
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  J-Post: BBC Persian reports residents hear blasts in Iranian capital. Fateh-110 missiles [file]. Photo: Reuters/Stringer Three explosions were heard in western Tehran on Tuesday, in an area where Iran carries out missile research and storage, BBC Persian reported. It was not immediately clear if there were ...
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• A Tale of Two Summits in the South Pacific.

  
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  Attendees to Pacific Defence Ministers meeting in Tonga (Image: Matangi Tonga) I n May 1 st 2013, DefenceMinisters of Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea andrepresentatives from US, UK, France and Chile met for a regional Defence summit in Tonga, a tiny monarchy in the South Pacific. This inaugural ...
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• Astronomical costs: Gitmo consumes $900,000 per prisoner annually

  
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  Published on Russia Today RT, May 5, 2013. Maintenance of Guantanamo has been revealed to cost over $150 million each year, with immediate estimates citing it one of the most expensive prisons in the world. This comes as the hunger strike at the detention facility is far from over … // … The $900,000 ...
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