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Israeli Nukes 101

Deception clouds the air when it comes to the critical subject of Israel and nuclear weapons.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Ha'aretz published an article 7 July 2010 titled "Secret document affirms U.S.-Israel nuclear partnership" explaining that the U.S. has reportedly pledged to sell Israel materials used to produce electricity, as well as nuclear technology and other supplies.

The publication is Israel's most progressive daily newspaper, known for exercising more fairness with regard to the occupation of Palestine and subsequent oppression of Arab people, than most other Israeli media.

Meet the Dead of the Mavi Marmara

Meen erhabi? - Who's the terrorist?

(SALEM, Ore.) - The events leading up to Israel's illegal high seas attack on the ship Mavi Marmara, part of a Freedom Flotilla trying to break the military siege of Gaza, are both tragic and incredible.

That notion that a military force can attack a civilian ship with deadly weapons, kill several while carrying assassin 'hit lists', and then turn around and play the victim, might be the biggest stretch in Israel's history, and that is saying something.

Gunmen in Deadly Mexican Police Shootout Possibly Tied to Texas Crash

Vehicle from hit and run crash in El Paso could be tied to police shooting.

(CIUDAD / SALEM) - A tragic deadly shooting at a Mexican police station may be tied to a crash that happened in El Paso's Lower Valley, shortly before the vehicle, a Chevy Suburban, fled the scene in Texas and crossed in Mexico at the Ysleta Port of Entry.

Border officials are believed to have fired at the wrecked vehicle that was able to make the international crossing in spite of body damage, while being pursued by American police for fleeing the scene of an accident.

Doubt Thrown on Proof of Bin Laden`s Role as Terrorist Leader

No wonder there is no reference to 9/11 on Bin Laden's FBI wanted poster.

(CINCINNATI, Ohio) - The CIA recently told the press they haven't been able to positively confirm information on Osama bin Laden since “late 2000.”

Interviews with high ranking military and intelligence officials, some at the highest levels, have confirmed that all evidence lends toward Osama bin Laden’s death in December 2001.

Will America Free Omar Khadr From Gitmo?

Realistically, Obama needs to score a few points with his American constituency to whom he made a lot of implied promises which they are waiting to see materialize.

(DUBAI) - Come August, a military commission in Guantánamo will try Omar Khadr, a Canadian national captured outside Kabul in 2002.

He was a boy, aged 15 then. Now a burly, bearded 23-year-old who has spent one-third of his life at Guantanamo.

Can General Petraeus Turn the Tide in Kandahar?

General David Petreaus can turn the tide in Kandahar if and when the Afghans, who have already contemplated this real home-grown predicament, have his ear.

(SEATTLE) - The southern city of Kandahar, the last Afghan territory to be handed over by the British in 1830, was also known as the center of greatest resistance to the Russian occupation in the 1980’s.

Today it measures as the epicenter of intense political competition, drug trafficking and an operational nightmare for a U.S. led counterinsurgency campaign; once again proving its historic destiny as a make-or-break location for another Afghan war.

Representative Kurt Schrader as an Afghan War Strategist

The same goes for DeFazio, Wu and Blumenauer.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - Don’t think that I don’t have the greatest respect AND empathy for these people. Washington DC has about the worst climate in the U.S. – blazing hot and moist in the summer and miserable in the winter. Oregon is paradise by comparison.

Representative Schrader reminds us that Alexander the Great failed to conquer the place as did Britain and Russia.

What`s Good for the Goose Does Not Apply

Obama Maintains Israel is the Exception to Middle East Disarmament.

(WINDSOR, N.H.) - President Obama has reaffirmed that Israel remains the exception to the rules each and every other Middle Eastern country would be expected to play by in pursuit of a “nuclear free” Middle East.

Far too many writers use the term “ambiguous” when writing about Israel’s response to questions regarding its program and nuclear capabilities. The appropriate term is “deceptive”.

Non Violent Organization in Afghanistan Fights Label of `Terror Group`

Another attempt to link Hizb ut Tahrir with terrorism; in English, Dari and Pashto.

(KABUL, Afghanistan) - Former foreign Minister Rangeen Dadfar Spanta has called on the Pakistani government to "take serious measures" against Islamist groups launching attacks on Afghan targets.

He also said “Pakistan had failed to act against Al‐Qaeda, the Afghan Taliban leadership known as the Quetta Shura, the Haqqani network, the minor Hekmatyar group, Hizb‐ut‐Tahrir, as well as "Uzbek and Chechen terrorist groups".

Special Report - A Mexican Political Era Ends

Looking past the short-term political scorecard, unsettling and ominous trends resurfaced or strengthened in the July 4 elections that seriously call into the question the future of democracy in Mexico.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - On July 4, while oil continued to pour out of British Petroleum’s crippled well in the Gulf of Mexico and spread its contamination to new shores, a rupture of political sorts was consummated in Mexico.

In state and local elections, Mexicans ended one political era, sowed the seeds for the possible rebirth of an old one and cast new doubts about the future of a fresh one.