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Is The US Hiding Secret Prisons In Afghanistan?

Investigators say they have uncovered ‘illegal and unlawful detention facilities run and operated by foreign military forces’

Common Dreams
By Common Dreams

An Afghan government panel investigating U.S. and U.K. detention facilities in the country announced Saturday it had two secret and unlawful prisons operating at coalition bases in Afghanistan, The New York Times revealed. “We have conducted a thorough investigation and search of Kandahar Airfield and Camp Bastion and found several illegal and

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Obama Touts Philippine Pact Amid Concerns

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — President Barack Obama said a 10-year agreement signed Monday to give the U.S military greater access to Philippine bases will help promote peace and stability in the region and that he hopes China’s dominant power will allow its neighbors to prosper on their own terms. Signed as Obama arrived in Manila, […]

Associated Press
By Associated Press

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — President Barack Obama said a 10-year agreement signed Monday to give the U.S military greater access to Philippine bases will help promote peace and stability in the region and that he hopes China's dominant power will allow its neighbors to prosper on their own terms. Signed as Obama arrived in Manila, the Enhanced

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Taiwan Police Clash With Hundreds Of Anti-Nuclear Protesters

The protesters demanded the government scrap plans to begin operation of The protesters demanded the government scrap plans to begin operation of Taiwan’s nearly completed fourth reactor.’s nearly completed fourth reactor.

Global Post
By Global Post
Taiwan Nuclear

Police in Taiwan fired water cannons on Monday to disperse hundreds of anti-nuclear protesters refusing to give up their campaign despite a government pledge to halt work on the island's fourth nuclear power plant. The protesters had been occupying a main Taipei boulevard since Sunday, demanding the government scrap plans to begin operation of

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Volunteers Quietly Help Families Of Ferry’s Lost

JINDO, South Korea (AP) — The mother, slightly drunk, sits on the edge of a windblown dock and wails. A Buddhist monk approaches and wipes the tears from her face as she pours out her grief and longing for her missing son. He leads her away from the dock’s edge and, as she weeps, chants […]

Associated Press
By Associated Press

JINDO, South Korea (AP) — The mother, slightly drunk, sits on the edge of a windblown dock and wails. A Buddhist monk approaches and wipes the tears from her face as she pours out her grief and longing for her missing son. He leads her away from the dock's edge and, as she weeps, chants Buddhist scriptures and sounds a wooden gong in a prayer for

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Egypt Sentences 683 To Death In Another Mass Trial

MINYA, Egypt (AP) — A judge in Egypt on Monday sentenced to death 683 alleged supporters of the country’s ousted Islamist president, including the Muslim Brotherhood’s spiritual leader, the latest in mass trials that have drawn international condemnation and stunned rights groups. The same judge also upheld the death penalty for 37 of 529 defendants […]

Associated Press
By Associated Press

MINYA, Egypt (AP) — A judge in Egypt on Monday sentenced to death 683 alleged supporters of the country's ousted Islamist president, including the Muslim Brotherhood's spiritual leader, the latest in mass trials that have drawn international condemnation and stunned rights groups. The same judge also upheld the death penalty for 37 of 529

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Onward Christian Zionists

Who is the Israel lobby? It’s religious fanatics, to be sure, but maybe not the ones you think.

Jeffrey Cavanaugh
By Jeffrey Cavanaugh
John Hagee

The HBO series “Vice” hit it out of the park again recently with its examination of how the rabid support of Israel by Christian fundamentalists here in the United States is undermining prospects for peace in the Middle East. For those rationalists here in America and abroad, this religious connection between America and Israel is an unfortunate,

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