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allAfrica.com: Kenya: Children Fighting Somalia’s Wars
Sixty per cent of soldiers involved in Somalia’s conflict are children, a UN official has said.
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US accused of forcing up world food prices | Business | The Guardian <span class="“> – Annotated
Fresh round of US quantitative easing will weaken dollar and push up commodity prices, hitting consumers, say critics
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Critics said the $600bn (£370bn) of QE announced by the Federal Reserve would hurt consumers by pushing up prices of soy, wheat and other staple foods, along with oil, copper and zinc.
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AFP: Yemenis at Guantanamo remain in limbo <span class="“> – Annotated
A cargo bomb plot hatched in Yemen put into question the fate of 57 of its citizens who remain detained at the US-run prison at Guantanamo Bay, rights observers said.
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90 of Guantanamo’s 174 inmates have been cleared for release, including the 57 Yemenis, who nevertheless remain imprisoned at the camp
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President Barack Obama, who vowed that he would close the Guantanamo detention camp by January 2010, missed that deadline and has failed to set a new one.
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“The problem for both Bush and Obama administrations has been Yemen’s capacity to absorb this problem, repatriate these people in a way that doesn’t pose security problems,”
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Obama’s Peace Dividend: War Profiteering in the land of Gandhi <span class="“> – Annotated
The Nobel Peace Laureate Barack Obama, who in his prize-claiming speech boldly claimed the mantle of Mahatma Gandhi, is now visiting India. And why has he made this pilgrimage to the homeland of his spiritual mentor?
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he has come to seal the deal on the sixth largest sale of war weapons in the history of the United States: $5 billion for the bristling, burgeoning Indian military, currently waging war on millions of its own people in Kashmir and the poverty-devastated state of central India, where the despair is so deep that suicide among the poor is epidemic.
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Five billion dollars could have transformed the lives and futures of millions; instead it will go into the pockets of a few American war profiteers — who will of course spread the wealth around to their favorite politicians … such as Barack Obama, the leading recipient of war industry money in the 2008 campaign, outdoing even that old soldier and ardent militarist, John McCain.
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If Obama wins re-election in 2012, it will not be because he “made a mid-course correction” or “learned the lessons” of the 2010 vote or “moved to the center” or any such witless expectoration of conventional wisdom. It will be because his militarist backers have judged his arms deals and Terror War operations sufficiently profitable to justify his retention.
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Report: Biofuel is a two-edged catastrophe – Politiken.dk <span class="“> – Annotated
A new report says biofuel causes hunger and harms the environment twice as much as current fuel forms.
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A fresh report from the Danish Actionaid Denmark, Greenpeace and Noah
organisations among others suggests that biofuel produced from maize or palm
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“The result is that the EU’s policy takes food out of the mouths of the
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If greenhouse gases from biofuel production are included, emissions in 2020
will have increased from 27 million to 56 million tonnes of CO2 each year,
the report says.
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Terror Expert: War with Iran More Likely to Happen <span class="“> – Annotated
Results of the midterm elections make a war with Iran more likely, says Michael Scheuer, a counterterrorism expert who spent more than 20 years working for the CIA.
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“On Iran, there’s no difference between Democrats and Republicans,” he tells Newsmax.TV. “They’re very comfortable with the idea that a foreign leader like [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu can take 300 million Americans to war whenever he wants.”
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But Scheuer doesn’t think the Republican takeover of the House will improve anti-terrorism efforts. “I don’t think there’s any real difference between Obama and his party and the Republicans,” he says.
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“They’re still fighting an enemy that doesn’t exist, an enemy they believe is attacking us because we have elections, women in the work place, because we drink beer and watch R-rated movies.”
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“Until they understand we’re being attacked because of our foreign policy and what we do in the Muslim world, we’re never going to understand the motivation and size of the enemy,” Scheuer says.
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Contours of the French revolt: an interview with John Mullen | Socialist Alternative <span class="“> – Annotated
The aftermath of the global financial crisis has led to a wave of attacks on working-class living standards in Europe and North America and a massive redistribution of wealth in favour of the rich.
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France has been a locus of resistance to the austerity sweeping Europe as millions of workers and thousands of students have mobilised against attacks on pension rights.
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SOCIALIST UNITY » THE RETURN OF THE WORKHOUSE
So the latest wheeze from a government intent on dealing with a deficit caused by the rich is to continue punishing the poor for being poor, this time in the shape of a plan to make the unemployed perform four week periods of compulsory unpaid work on pain of having their benefits stopped for up to three months.
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Orwellian Circus: Khadr’s Trial | GeorgieBC’s Blog
“Omar Khadr was taken as a child from his home in Canada to fight the NATO invaders in Afghanistan. When he was 15, he was caught in a battle with US forces. He lost his vision in one eye, was shot in the back twice, and was confined in US torture camps from the time he was 15 until he was 24, without a trial, and without access to a lawyer for years.”
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George W. Bush Admits He’s A War Criminal In New Book | Crooks and Liars <span class="“> – Annotated
“On Guantánamo, the only comments in the book that have so far emerged are insultingly flippant, which is disgraceful from the man who shredded the Geneva Conventions and authorized an unprecedented program of arbitrary detention, coercive interrogation and torture.”
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Bush’s baleful legacy lives on in the cases of the 174 men still held, in the recent show trial of Omar Khadr, and in the complacency regarding the basis for detaining prisoners of the “War on Terror” — the Authorization for Use of Military Force, passed by Congress the week after the 9/11 attacks — on which Barack Obama continues to rely, despite its formidable shortcomings.
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Bush also attempts to explain how Abu Zubaydah began cooperating, in a troubling passage in which he seems to be trying to make out that waterboarding was some sort of specific test for Muslims. He writes, “His understanding of Islam was that he had to resist interrogation only up to a certain point. Waterboarding was the technique that allowed him to reach that threshold, fulfill his religious duty, and then cooperate.” He adds that Abu Zubaydah then explained, “You must do this for all the brothers.”
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