NEWS and PROPAGANDA

US 'supports borderline terrorists against Iran'
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"The United States is promoting terrorism behind [Iran's] western frontiers... They [the US government] directly finance operations and organize terrorist movements to undermine the Islamic Republic," Ayatollah Khamenei said on Tuesday.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=95222&sectionid=351020101



Obama's Animal Farm
Bigger, Bloodier Wars Equal Peace and Justice
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"The Deltas are psychos. You have to be a certified psychopath to join the Delta Force", a US Army colonel from Fort Bragg once told me back in the 1980's. Now President Obama has elevated the most notorious of the psychopaths, General Stanley McChrystal, to head the US and NATO military command in Afghanistan. McChrystal's rise to leadership is marked by his central role in directing special operations teams engaged in extrajudicial assassinations, systematic torture, bombing of civilian communities and search and destroy missions.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22642.htm



Brazil president arrives in Beijing
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One item expected to come up in talks is a proposal by the Brazilian president for China and Brazil to conduct bilateral trade through each nation's currency, cutting out the US dollar as an intermediary.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/05/200951841033800562.html



Little Known Military Thug Squad Still Brutalizing Prisoners at Gitmo Under Obama
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Jeremy Scahill reports the Obama administration is continuing to use a notorious military police unit at Guantanamo that regularly brutalizes unarmed prisoners, including gang-beating them, breaking their bones, gouging their eyes and dousing them with chemicals. This force, officially known as the Immediate Reaction Force, has been labeled the "Extreme Repression Force" by Guantanamo prisoners, and human rights lawyers call their actions illegal.

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m54388&hd=&size=1&l=e



U.S. Contractors Fired at Kabul Car
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Four U.S. contractors affiliated with the company formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide fired on an approaching civilian vehicle in Kabul this month, wounding at least two Afghan civilians, according to the company and the U.S. military.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124239900599924043.html#mod=rss_US_News



Israel Preparing for Attack Again?
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The four-day military drills, which will end on Thursday, were aimed at testing the Israeli squadron's airborne assault operations, infiltration attempts and special forces missions.
Political analysts say the newly-staged military drills are a harbinger of another Israeli bombing mission on Gaza.

http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2009/05/israel-preparing-for-attack-again.html



The Netanyahu government approves construction of new settlement
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The new settlement plan was seen by several Palestinian and international officials as a clear Israeli message to the US administration that the country does not intend to halt the construction and expansion of settlements in the occupied West Bank.

http://obamboozled.blogspot.com/2009/05/netanyahu-government-approves.html



Ethiopia denies reports troops in Somalia
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"This is a totally fabricated story. We have no plans to go into any of Somalia's territory," Wahade Belay, spokesman for Ethiopia's Foreign Ministry, told Reuters in Addis Ababa.
Citing witnesses in the area, all the main Somali language websites and radio stations were on Tuesday running stories saying there had been an Ethiopian incursion.

http://www.reuters.com/article/homepageCrisis/idUSLJ094558._CH_.2400