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Afghan Leader Is Seen to Flout Influence of U.S.

Mr. Karzai recently told lunch guests at the presidential palace that he believes the Americans are in Afghanistan because they want to dominate his country and the region, and that they pose an obstacle to striking a peace deal with the Taliban.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/world/asia/30karzai.html?hp



Karzai's Defiant Stance Concerns U.S., Other Afghans

By Joshua Partlow

Karzai said that if foreign interference in his government continues, the Taliban would become a legitimate resistance -- one that he might even join, according to lawmakers present.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25135.htm


From Information Clearing House

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The Great US Foreign Policy Flaw
http://act.commondreams.org/go/165?akid=18.124981.AuEovH&t=22

Karzai Calls US Troops Invaders
http://act.commondreams.org/go/181?akid=20.124981.IdLUv4&t=21

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The Puppet Tries To Cut His Strings
http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis186.html



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By Jeffrey Feldman

Concentrations of homeless people are nothing new in America, but recent BBC and Los Angeles Times reports depict a rising trend of shanty slums, such as a "city" of newly homeless people living in tents near the Ontario airport in Los Angeles.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25111.htm



Workhouse Nation

The Plight of Mass Unemployment in America. What are the Causes

By Vi Ransel

The wage slave system wasn't escape-proof enough, so we've been enclosed within a fence of debt from which there is no escape. To that end wages will be halved - again. Foreclosures strictly carried out. Insurance for health, like that for cars, will be mandatory. Unions have already been neutralized, reduced to shells of their former selves. Free speech is relegated to zones behind barbed wire fences policed by minions of mammon armed with gas, guns and tasers.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25104.htm



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Romsey Advertiser

The spokesman added that the structures were “not mobile phone” masts and, unlike signals from phone masts, the emissions from the proposed masts would be ...

http://www.romseyadvertiser.co.uk/news/news/6518698.Rail_telecoms_mast_will_be____an_eyesore___/

ACLU: Newly Released Documents Reveal Details of Civilian Casualty Claims in Afghanistan and Iraq

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/04/01-10



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U.S. prison units specially designed to muzzle communications by inmates considered extremist are unconstitutional and discriminate against Muslims, according to a lawsuit filed on Tuesday by the Center for Constitutional Rights.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN3014363320100331


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Former IAEA chief slams Western support for tyrants, calls for policy based on dialogue, understanding.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3870425,00.html


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By Garrison Keillor

Slowly, slowly, the simple fact dawns on the electorate that the Democrats have passed a moderate Republican healthcare reform.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25127.htm



Failed Banks and Failed Billions

By Bob Chapman

Now that most of the evidence is in, it is apparent that Lehman Brothers management created a colossal fraud even bigger than that of Enron with its Repo 105 maneuvers and was assisted by its accounting firm of Ernst & Young, and by the NY fed under the direction of our current Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25124.htm



Out-Republicaning the Republicans

By Ted Rall

Obama is a Republican. A right-wing Republican. Thanks to triangulation gone wild.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25123.htm



When 'We the People' Lost America

By Len Hart

One day, a new generation will awaken to the harm done this country during those halcyon years when Uncle Ronnie made the 'gopper-inclined' feel good about themselves as only goppers and the gopper-inclined can feel good about themselves while stepping over people made homeless by their policies.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25122.htm



Banks Could Be Biggest Winners in Obama's New Foreclosure Plan

The initial foreclosure relief program unveiled a year ago was supposed to help up to four million struggling homeowners. So far fewer than 200,000 borrowers have been granted permanent loan modifications.

http://www.alternet.org/news/146228



Job cuts surge 61% - Challenger

Employers announced plans to cut 67,611 jobs in March, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc. That's up 61% from February, when 42,090 jobs were lost.

http://snipurl.com/v7a1n


From Information Clearing House

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Why You Need to Understand Political Psychology

Joe Brewer, Truthout: "Are you concerned about the future of our country? Do you want to find ways to revitalize democracy and set about the important work of solving our problems? Have you longed for an end to the extreme polarization in our political discourse? Then you'd better learn some psychology."

http://www.truthout.org/why-you-need-understand-political-psychology58214



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By Glenn Greenwald

While torture and aggressive war may have been the most serious crimes which the Bush administration committed, its warrantless eavesdropping on American citizens was its clearest and most undeniable lawbreaking.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25121.htm



NSA Wiretap Program Declared Illegal

The National Security Agency broke the law when it wiretapped two American lawyers working for the El-Haramain Charity Foundation, an judge ruled Wednesday.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/03/nsa-wiretap-program-declared-illegal/38273


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Anyone Got a Problem with That?

By Tom Hayden

Without public debate and without congressional hearings, a segment of the Pentagon and fellow travelers have embraced a doctrine known as the Long War.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25126.htm



MLK: A Call to Conscience

Video Report

Tavis Smiley Reports examines Martin Luther King, Jr.'s stand against the Vietnam War and the influence of his legacy today. Tavis speaks with scholars and friends of King, including Cornel West, Vincent Harding and Susannah Hesche.

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Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran

Imagining an Israeli Strike on Iran: Would Israel take the risk of a strike? And if so, what would follow?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/weekinreview/28sangerintro.html



Lieberman: U.S. Should Attack Iran's Nuclear Program If All Else Fails

Sen. Joe Lieberman says the world is at a "turning point in history," and the United States should begin preparing plans to attack Iran's nuclear program - and use that option if all diplomatic and other means fail.

http://snipurl.com/vgspd


From Information Clearing House

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Obama to say US may use nuclear weapons against nonnuclear countries
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9519/



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The CIA: Dust, Fog
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CIA given details of British Muslim students

Outrage as personal files of undergraduates at Detroit bomb suspect's college handed to US.

http://snipurl.com/v79zz


From Information Clearing House

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CIA Seeks to Influence Opinion on Wars

Daan de Wit, DeepJournal: "The CIA recommendations for influencing the European public into continuing their support for the mission in Afghanistan is receiving a lot of attention both in The Netherlands and beyond. But in a military conflict, war is only one stage of the struggle. The biggest struggle is for the hearts and minds of the public at large. What's special about the case of the document is not so much its content, but the fact that it is now available for all to see."

http://www.truthout.org/cia-red-cell-document-proves-rule-part-i58202



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Democracy in America Is a Useful Fiction
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Where's the Movement?
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Haiti is Bleeding… So too is Afghanistan, Iraq and the Arizona Desert
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/25-5

Afghanistan: This War Won't Work
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