August 2010

Is Payoneer under US investigation for role in Dubai murder?

by Paul Woodward 08.02.2010

The Wall Street Journal reports: American investigators, cooperating in a probe of the January assassination of a top Palestinian leader in Dubai, have identified a handful of U.S.-based companies believed to have been used to transfer money to suspects in the case, a finding that brings international authorities closer to identifying who funded the operation. [...]

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Wikileaks editor interrogated by US border police

by News Sources 08.02.2010

The Independent reports: A senior volunteer for Wikileaks in the US has been detained, questioned and had his phones seized when he returned to the country from Europe, as the FBI steps up its investigation into the leak of thousands of Afghanistan war secrets to the whistleblower website. Jacob Appelbaum, who has stood in for [...]

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The Goldilocks view of war against Iran

by Paul Woodward 08.02.2010

Steven Simon and Ray Takeyh present a Goldilocks approach to war against Iran: not too much, not too little but war cooked just right. Who knew war could be modulated so carefully? As it contemplated the use of force, the administration’s decision-making would be further complicated by the need for a plan to unwind military [...]

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Daniel Ellsberg: Obama tougher on leaks than any other US president

by News Sources 08.02.2010

The Economist interviewed Daniel Ellsberg who pointed out President Obama’s hypocrisy: Do you think the government is actively working against Wikileaks? Ellsberg: I’m sure they are, in the sense of trying to discover the sources of truth-telling from within. This administration has shown more eagerness to prosecute leaks than any other administration in our history. [...]

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Ann Jones: in bed with the U.S. Army

by TomDispatch 08.02.2010

Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com As the Wikileaks document-dump week ends, perhaps the real significance of what happened lay not in the specific revelations in those 92,000 pieces of raw data from American frustration-ville in Afghanistan, 2004-2009 (much of which would have been no news to anyone reading TomDispatch all these years).  It may simply be that, for the [...]

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America’s sense of the sacred

by Paul Woodward 08.01.2010

The New York Times reports: An influential Jewish organization on Friday announced its opposition to a proposed Islamic center and mosque two blocks north of ground zero in Lower Manhattan, intensifying a fierce national debate about the limits of religious freedom and the meaning of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The decision by the group, [...]

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Israeli youth being raised on racism

by News Sources 08.01.2010

Max Blumenthal reports: On July 26, Israeli police demolished 45 buildings in the unrecognized Bedouin village of al-Arakib, razing the entire village to the ground to make way for a Jewish National Fund forest. The destruction was part of a larger project to force the Bedouin community of the Negev away from their ancestral lands [...]

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