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Report: Hamas to offer Israel truce for boycott lift (Xinhua)
Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) has expressed willingness of offering ceasefire with Israel in exchange for the lift of boycott on the new Palestinian unity government, Israeli daily ...
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U.S. will not seek seat on U.N. rights body (George Gedda)
For the second year in a row, the United States has decided not to seek a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council, the State Department said Tuesday, accusing the panel of an anti-Israeli bias.
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The Kuala Lumpur Deceit -- A CIA Cover Up (Christopher Ketcham)
It turns out no one who was said to have witnessed the pivotal identification of Khallad, a.k.a. Tawfiq bin Attash, actually recalls any such identification as having been made at all. This in turn ...
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Washington Is Losing Its Grip on Latin America (Mark Weisbrot)
As President Bush heads south for a seven-day trip to counter the populist political tide in Latin America, hell discover that Washingtons influence has collapsed and is not likely to recover.
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Airline Worker Used Security ID To Sneak 14 Guns, Drugs On Orlando Flight (Local 6 Orlando)
A 22-year-old airline employee from Central Florida was arrested after he used his security privileges to smuggle a bag containing 13 handguns, an M-16 type automatic weapon and marijuana on board a ...
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Feds test new data mining program (John Yaukey)
U.S. Lawmakers and privacy advocates are concerned that a powerful new data searching tool being tested by the Department of Homeland Security could pose a threat to Americans privacy as it sifts ...
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Thousands flee fighting in east Sri Lanka (Simon Gardner)
Thousands of civilians are fleeing Tamil Tiger-held territory in east Sri Lanka as troops and rebels battle with artillery and mortar bombs, the two sides said Thursday, amid a rebel warning of a ...
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‘Corporate Hippies’ Seek Their Bliss in a New Environmental Economy (Felicity Barringer)
“I would call myself a corporate hippie,” she said. “I’m in the business of definitely caring for and supporting environmental growth and change for the better, but I also believe in the growth of ...
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The peak oil crisis: our 4 storms (Tom Whipple)
Until last week, a good guess would have been that shortages in oil available for export would impact us first. This would be followed by economic decline, peak oil production, and finally a ...
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Round in Circles: a review of David C. Korten’s The Great Turning (John Michael Greer)
The Great Turning is anything but naive, and though it uses the rhetoric of Utopian fantasy it does so in pursuit of a far more pragmatic agenda.
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Portland, Ore, Peak Oil Task Force Recommends City Cut Fossil Fuel Use 50% In 25 Years (POSD)
The report’s key recommendation is that the City take action to reduce fossil fuel use by half over the next 25 years.
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