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Salem-News.com (Mar-09-2012 13:24)

Last Week: 26 US War Casualties

US media divert attention from the actual cost in American life and limb by reporting regularly only the total killed, but rarely mentioning those wounded in action

(PORTLAND, OR) - war casualties US military occupation forces in Afganistan under Commander-in-Chief Obama suffered 26 casualties in the week ending March 6, as the official casualty total for the Iraq and AfPak wars* rose to 112, 605.

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Salem-News.com (Mar-08-2012 12:53)

Top Afghan Advisor Resigns over Differences with Karzai

There are increasing doubts on whether Washington and Kabul will be able to reach a long-term Strategic Partnership Agreement; US-Afghanistan relations have been heavily strained in recent weeks.

(KABUL, Afghanistan Press TV) - Rangin Dadfar Spanta A top Afghan advisor has reportedly resigned over disagreements on a strategic partnership deal to set the framework for continued US presence in Afghanistan beyond 2014.

Reports say National Security Adviser Rangin Dadfar Spanta has submitted his resignation letter to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, though his resignation has not yet been accepted.

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Salem-News.com (Mar-04-2012 12:48)

Let Your Life Be a Friction to Stop the Machine

The truth is finally emerging...

(MELBOURNE) - Whether Americans live in the one state or the other is the paramount question of this era.

For two hundred years Americans have been indoctrinated with a mythology created, imposed and sustained by a manipulating cabal: the financial elite that built its absolute control on the muscle and blood, good will, ignorance and credulity, of its citizenry.

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Salem-News.com (Mar-03-2012 18:54)

Oregon Soldiers Mobilize in Support of CENTCOM Missions in the Middle East

Video essay captures sights and sounds of event.

(SALEM) - Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber congratulates Oregon Army National Guard Spc. Steven Armstrong Oregon Guard soldiers were honored in a mobilization ceremony in Salem Friday, prior to heading to the Middle East for a year.

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Salem-News.com (Mar-01-2012 17:58)

VA Announces Funding Availability for the Grant and Per Diem Program

Expects to fund 600 beds across four priority areas; applications due May 30.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Homeless Veteran The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has announced the availability of funds for applications for assistance under the Per Diem Only component of VA's Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem Program.

This Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) includes funding priorities for those applicants who will serve specific homeless veteran populations that are identified in this NOFA...

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Salem-News.com (Feb-29-2012 18:07)

Jackson Browne Adds Balance

If only people who think like Jackson Browne were in charge...

(SALEM) - Salem-News.com Celebrities and entertainers often enter politics, as we all well know. Some do it for personal reasons, and others only ended up in the positions they hold because their lives are dedicated to humanity.

It overwhelms me to know that as bad as things they are, they would be much worse if it weren't for key people of notoriety with Jackson Browne at the head of the list.

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Salem-News.com (Feb-29-2012 00:04)

Military Psychiatrists with Personality Disorder

Commentary on the New York Times article: Branding Soldiers with Personality Disorders

(MOLALLA, OR) - Psychiatrists For almost anybody with more than two brain neurons, the military, especially the Army, is really a weird place.

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Salem-News.com (Feb-28-2012 21:58)

Americans Forget; Afghans Do Not

In a fast moving media world the US public probably moved on long ago and has only vague and distant memories of the pictures of the “trophy” takers, while such things are burned into the minds of Afghan public.

(JAMESTOWN, RI) - Dead child Afghanistan The latest twist and turn in the Afghan misadventure takes the form of anti-American riots, protests, and bombs, by Afghans at Americans over the burning of the Koran by American military.

Mainstream media leads readers to believe that the uproar is solely because of the burning incident, however there is far more to it.

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Salem-News.com (Feb-27-2012 22:00)

Wikileaks Launches The Global Intelligence Files

WikiLeaks has also obtained Stratfor’s list of informants and, in many cases, records of its payoffs.

(NEW YORK) - Wikileaks Today, Monday 27 February, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files – more than five million emails from the Texas-headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor.

The emails date from between July 2004 and late December 2011.

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Salem-News.com (Feb-27-2012 21:55)

Current Status of Wikileaks

The Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has repeatedly attacked WikiLeaks this week in a bizarre manner

(NEW YORK) - Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks An extrajudicial blockade imposed by VISA, MasterCard, PayPal, Bank of America, and Western Union that is designed to destroy WikiLeaks has been in place since December 2010.

The EU Commission is considering whether it will open a formal investigation, but two lawsuits have been filed.

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