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Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas to form unity government

by News Sources 02.06.2012

The Guardian reports: The rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas have agreed to form a new unity government in the West Bank and Gaza, which will be headed by Mahmoud Abbas, it was announced on Monday. Reconciliation talks between the two factions have struggled to make progress since an agreement in principle was signed last [...]

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Obama-appointed U.S. trade adviser linked to illegal deal in Congolese gold

by News Sources 02.05.2012

The Guardian reports: A US trade adviser appointed by Barack Obama orchestrated a deal to buy gold worth millions of dollars from a wanted Congolese warlord, according to a UN report. Kase Lawal, a Nigerian-born US oil tycoon, transferred millions of dollars to the notorious rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda between December 2010 and February 2011 [...]

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Video: U.S. considers prisoner tranfers for Taliban peace deal

by News Sources 02.04.2012

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Video: Is Pakistan backing the Taliban?

by News Sources 02.03.2012

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How the GOP is resegregating the South

by News Sources 02.02.2012

The Nation reports: North Carolina State Senator Eric Mansfield was born in 1964, a year before the passage of the Voting Rights Act, which guaranteed the right to vote for African-Americans. He grew up in Columbus, Georgia, and moved to North Carolina when he was stationed at Fort Bragg. He became an Army doctor, opening [...]

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Tourists visiting the U.S. advised not to use figurative language

by News Sources 02.01.2012

BBC News reports: Holidaymakers have been warned to watch their words after two friends were refused entry to the US on security grounds after a tweet. Before his trip, Leigh Van Bryan wrote that he was going to “destroy America”. He insisted he was referring to simply having a good time – but was sent [...]

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Turns out Hamas isn’t really an Iran proxy

by News Sources 02.01.2012

Paul Scham writes: One of the most enduring epithets for Hamas, right up there with “terrorist,” is “proxy.” If you Google “Hamas Iran proxy,” you get 1,750,000 hits. The idea that the relationship between Sunni Hamas, the Gaza affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood, and Shia Iran was merely a marriage of convenience and not a [...]

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The Wall Streeters Obama loves most

by News Sources 01.24.2012

Bill Moyers and Michael Winship write: We’ve already made our choice for the best headline of the year, so far: “Citigroup Replaces JPMorgan as White House Chief of Staff.” When we saw it on the website Gawker.com we had to smile — but the smile didn’t last long. There’s simply too much truth in that [...]

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Obama panders to Jewish donors

by News Sources 01.23.2012

JTA reports: President Obama’s reelection campaign unveiled a video featuring testimonials from Israeli leaders a day after he raised $500,000 from Jewish donors. The video, e-blasted Friday to Jewish supporters by David Axelrod, a top campaign official, intersperses speeches by Obama to Jewish audiences and at the United Nations with testimonials culled from news broadcasts. [...]

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Atlanta Jewish Times publisher resigns over Obama assassination column

by News Sources 01.23.2012

JTA reports: The owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times has resigned and is seeking a buyer in the wake of a column he wrote speculating that Israel would consider assassinating President Obama. Andrew Adler, in an email obtained by JTA, announced Monday that he is “relinquishing all day-to-day activities effective immediately” following the [...]

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Israel’s man in the White House

by News Sources 01.23.2012

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DHS pumping money into drones for domestic surveillance, hunting immigrants and seizing pot

by News Sources 01.23.2012

AlterNet reports: The Department of Homeland Security says it needs a fleet of two-dozen Predator and Guardian drones to protect the homeland adequately. Designed for military use, 10 of these unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are already patrolling U.S. borders in the hunt for unauthorized immigrants and illegal drugs. DHS is building its drone fleet at [...]

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Israel’s routine abuse of Palestinian children

by News Sources 01.22.2012

The Guardian reports: The room is barely wider than the thin, dirty mattress that covers the floor. Behind a low concrete wall is a squat toilet, the stench from which has no escape in the windowless room. The rough concrete walls deter idle leaning; the constant overhead light inhibits sleep. The delivery of food through [...]

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Video: Murder in Tehran

by News Sources 01.22.2012

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A new generation of political Islamists steps forward

by News Sources 01.21.2012

Olivier Roy writes: Everywhere, the Muslim Brotherhood is benefiting from a democratization it did not trigger. There is a political vacuum because the liberal vanguard that initiated the Arab Spring did not try, and did not want, to take power. This was a revolution without revolutionaries. Yet the Muslim Brothers are the only organized political [...]

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Hamas political chief to step down

by News Sources 01.21.2012

The Guardian reports: Khaled Meshaal, the political head of Hamas, is to step down from his position when elections for the leadership of the Palestinian Islamist organisation take place in the next few months. A statement from Meshaal’s office said the Damascus-based leader would not seek re-nomination after 16 years at the helm, but would [...]

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Atlanta Jewish newspaper publisher suggests Mossad should assassinate Obama

by Paul Woodward 01.21.2012

Andrew B Adler, the owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, suggested in a column published a week ago that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should consider ordering U.S.-based Mossad agents to assassinate President Obama. Netanyahu should then “forcefully dictate” to then-President Biden that the United States must help Israel “obliterate its enemies.” Adler, [...]

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Dear Andrew Sullivan: Why focus on Obama’s dumbest critics?

by News Sources 01.19.2012

Conor Friedersdorf writes: After reading Andrew Sullivan’s Newsweek essay about President Obama, his critics, and his re-election bid, I implore him to ponder just one question. How would you have reacted in 2008 if any Republican ran promising to do the following? (1) Codify indefinite detention into law; (2) draw up a secret kill list [...]

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Julian Assange: The United States betrayed Madison and Jefferson

by News Sources 01.18.2012

Michael Hastings writes: It’s a few days before Christmas, and Julian Assange has just finished moving to a new hide-out deep in the English countryside. The two-bedroom house, on loan from a WikiLeaks supporter, is comfortable enough, with a big stone fireplace and a porch out back, but it’s not as grand as the country [...]

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Iranian Revolutionary Guard/Quds Force could be planning attack in Turkey

by News Sources 01.17.2012

Today’s Zaman reports: Intelligence units have warned that the Quds Force, a special unit of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, plans to send a group to Turkey to carry out a series of demonstrations that may include a bomb attack on the Embassy or Consulate General of the United States. The Turkish Security General Directorate (EGM) has [...]

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Taliban make formal declaration of victory

by News Sources 01.16.2012

The New York Times reports: Mullah Muhammad Omar, the Taliban’s one-eyed leader, seems to have taken a page from George W. Bush’s playbook. Just as the former president declared “mission accomplished” in Iraq years before the war there ended, the Taliban made their own victory declaration this weekend, even though roughly 130,000 coalition troops were [...]

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Israelis in Tehran?

by News Sources 01.16.2012

The Sunday Times has a report whose details the paper cannot verify, claiming that a team of Israeli agents conducted last week’s attack in which an Iranian nuclear scientist, Mustafa Ahmadi Roshan, was blown up by a car bomb in Tehran. The report seems to have several functions: To burnish Mossad’s reputation as a daring [...]

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If the Pollard incident didn’t end the U.S.-Israel relationship, then this won’t

by News Sources 01.14.2012

Dimi Reider at +972 talked to Mark Perry about “False Flag,” his report in Foreign Policy yesterday which revealed that Mossad agents had posed as CIA officers in order to recruit anti-Iranian terrorists. Quite a few readers have questioned the coincidence of the story running just days after yet another assassination of an Iranian scientist. [...]

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Egypt’s Islamists: Threat or opportunity?

by News Sources 01.14.2012

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